dartagnan wrote:Well, missionaries who go into the water are disobedient, and through disobedience we allow Satan to have power to do with us what he will. That was the logic employed on our mission. I served in Spain as well as Anaheim. It was well understood in both that this was the case. Going swimming was such a serious crime that it could result in you being sent home.
I served in Peru. Once I had to take a canoe to get to our stake President's ranch. You would have thought I crap on someone's puppy when my mother found out about that. Needless to say, that was the last canoe trip I made during my mission. Crazy crazy...
The Nehor wrote:I love the hellhound story. lol. Oh crap. Now I'm tempted to work it into the lesson I'm giving on Truth versus Myth for Sunday School in a few weeks.
Come-on, Nehor, rise to the occasion! If not you, who, Bro? Warm regards, Roger
dartagnan wrote:But that "myth" is based on an old blessing given to a 19th century Apostle who almost drowned on his mission while taking a row-boat across a river somewhere in England. I forget who it was, but it was read out loud on our mission as the justification for the rule.
D&C 61 talks about the " destroyer rideth upon their face" (waters).
Its clearly abunch of BS and maybe the Mormon myth is no longer spread, but missionaries have been told for years that Satan rules the waters and that is why they are prohibited from swimming. No doubt leaders had other reasons too but this was typically given as the reason.
Inconceivable wrote:Nehor, you wair your garments for physical protection.
No I don't. I wear them as a symbol and a reminder to me of holding to my covenants.
"Surely he knows that DCP, The Nehor, Lamanite, and other key apologists..." -Scratch clarifying my status in apologetics "I admit it; I'm a petty, petty man." -Some Schmo