re: #379 MandyManners

I didn’t know you were Mormon!

Has it been difficult all over Europe over the years? What about South America?

Sorry. Playing catch up now.

Well, we now have, according to the stats, 13,000,000 members of which more are outside of the states than inside.

South America is booming. Since the ‘Book of Mormon’ purportedly gives a history of some of their ancestors so it’s an easier sell.

I can only speak for Eastern Europe and just the little segment I was in, but in the beginning there was some solid success with thousands of converts.

Then Gov’t propaganda kicked in, (not counting the true stuff of early mormon history like polygamy), but the likes that we sacrificed children and ate them, blood libel, etc. Then we started getting the smack down on us.

I worked on a load of humanitarian projects, fixing up orphanages, schools for the deaf and blind, cleaning parks, taught english classes, looked at all the hot Eastern Euro chicks…I mean. uh..uh. (unpaid, we all save our meagre wages to do this 2 year debacle…) Basically anything to say, hey, yes some of us are American (not all of us there were), yes we are, according to your commie history books, the bad guys, but we not only have taken the time to learn and associate with you in your own language, but we are also here to help in any way we can.

So now the mental walls are coming down. I would like to go and visit some of my friends there.