ajax18 wrote:Mosquitoes aren't always very objedient to what the Lord tells them and neither are flees. But if you get bit my enough of them to where you're groin and underarms are nothing but bites, you begin to try to reason with them. But they just couldn't understand that since we were being obedient they weren't supposed to bite us.
Natives aren't responsible for mosquitos and assorted other insects. You want to blame someone, blame God; he's the one who created them.
Yellow fever doesn't really care if it hits you if you were in your apartment by 10 or breaking the rules buying that extra pop. It just bites you both and you does you some serious damdage that you have to live with for the rest of your life.
Again, Natives aren't responsible for diseases. You want to blame someone, blame God. he's the one created them.
Don't sink to intellecutual lows that say the only missionaries who get long term illnesses in latin america do so because they broke the rules.
Not my intent, but continue your rant.
You're smarter than that Harmony.
Don't tell marg. We'll have 10 more pages on my lack of intelligence.
Guess what else, no matter what happens to you in the mission, if you're parents don't have you on their insurnace policy, you'll be lucky to see a doctor in the 3 months they give you after the mission ends. Beyond that you're on your own, and you can't buy insurance because it's all pre-existing. Competing for high ranking jobs to get the healthare you need to become a productive citizen again becomes a little difficult at that point. I'm not sure I could have beat some classmates with my full strength to get into a job with real inusrance. Wacked out with yellow fever, and it just ain't going to happen.
I wanted a quick death so bad. But life has continued to torture me years later without any sign of offering the relief of death. It's hard to fit into the LDS Churrch when you're mentally crippled. I know it's hard to understand, but when a bug gets in your brain and doesn't kill you, life can get really difficult and complicated.
I'm not blaming you Harmony for how things went down in my case. I just can't believe you would buy into the idea that keeping the rules, keeps young men safe on their missions. I don't have a hope or perfect faith this is true. I've seen this with my own two eyes. I think it's fair to say I konw its true, and I really didn't even have to pray about it.
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Sounds like you had a hard time both on and after your mission. I don't see how you can blame the Natives though. Blame your living conditions on the church. Natives aren't required to provide missionaries first class lodging. It's up to the church to provide you with minimum standard living, and they obviously didn't.
You have first hand knowledge about why Natives die an average of 15 years earlier than most whites, but it doesn't sound like your experience softened your heart any.
(Nevo, Jan 23) And the Melchizedek Priesthood may not have been restored until the summer of 1830, several months after the organization of the Church.