This conversation is bound to happen any day now

[_aranyborju]

Mother #1: "I'm so shocked!"

Mother #2: "What is it dear?"

M1: "It's Bobby, my only son...the fruit of mine womb."

M2: "The self-same Bobby who is a Junior in High school, barely reaching the tender age of 17?"

M1: "The same."

M2: "What pray-tell has happened to dear Bobby?"

M1: "Late last night, methought I heard a rustling of papers emanating from his room at the end of the hallway. Overcome with the spirit I burst into the room, where I encountered my dearest Bobby huddled under his blankets with a flashlight, flipping through papers with feverish delight.

M2: "Pornography?"

M1: "Nay lady....I wish it were so."

M2: "What then...speak!"

M1: "He was filling out COLLEGE APPLICATIONS!!!"

M2: "MERCY! What fell spirit hath enchanted his tortured soul? Does he not know that even the mere act of filling out that heinous parchment is the sure signal that he will not serve his mission at the righteous age of 18?

M1: "A curse be upon our institutions of learning...I dust mine feet at thy wicked doorstep. What, dear friend, can be done to stop so great an abomination?"

M2: "Take heed woman, and hear my speech. Take ye his applications and cast them into the furnace! Did not our fathers of old deny their bright-eyed sons their drivers license until the day that the mighty eagle patch was sewn to the pocket of their scout shirt?"

M1: "Yea, it was so."

M2: "Go and do likewise...the sons of this generation shall not fill out college applications, nor shall they consider a major of any kind until AFTER they have served their missions. At the righteous and holy age of 18 of course."

M1: "Of course."


Seriously though...the whole semester of college before your mission is gone now I guess. Boys will be discouraged to even think about their educations before their missions.

And what about people who need that extra 6 months or so to work in order to pay for their mission? We all know that there will be a stigma attached to boys going to school or working until they are 19, as 18 is the new mandate. It really irritates me that the church spends the first 18 years of a boys life prepping them for a mission and discouraging them from thinking about their education, only to berate them in priesthood session once they return home for being lazy and directionless.

[_Fence Sitter]

It does bring up the question of how college applications for missionaries will be done. Will they have to wait until they return to file them or?

[_Drifting]

This pronouncement is further proof of the little couplet that "when the Prophet speaks, no thinking has been done..."

[_DrW]

This pronouncement is further proof of the little couplet that "when the Prophet speaks, no thinking has been done..."

A couplet of truth, if there ever was one.

[_just me]

I wonder how many more families will be asking the ward to pay for their child's mission.

Wonder if the church thought about that one.

[_Tchild]

This pronouncement is further proof of the little couplet that "when the Prophet speaks, no thinking has been done..."

Indeed, all the ballyhoo for nothing more than an administrative tweek.

LDS leaders "raised the bar" for missionaries a few years back, but the members refuse to "raise the bar" for what constitutes "revelation" from their leaders, accepting it right at ground level and in the mud.

-man, all of a sudden I am "angry" again. What gives?