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_Runtu
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Recently I've been involved in a side project about missionary life, and one of the things I was hoping to use was my "White Bible" or missionary handbook, that I was given in the MTC in the mid-1980s. I know I have mine somewhere, but I can't find it. Does anyone who was a missionary roughly in that era have a copy or know where I can find the text?
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_Fence Sitter
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Re: White Bible

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I may, let me check.
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Re: White Bible

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It''s not in the box with my other mission stuff. I still have my Spanish discussion book if that is any help.
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_Runtu
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Re: White Bible

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I may have to dig deeply through the boxes this weekend. Just before we moved in May, I went through all of our boxes of mementos and got rid of a lot of junk. I did find the white Bible, which I had carried in my shirt pocket my entire mission. Tucked into the sleeve behind the certificate proving I was a missionary, I found a couple of Bolivian bank notes and my notes on the steps for getting a missionary in and out of the country. Now I just need to figure out which box it's in.
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_Dr. Shades
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Re: White Bible

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I still have mine.
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_Runtu
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Re: White Bible

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Dr. Shades wrote:I still have mine.

If you can find it, would you mind scanning it in?
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_Everybody Wang Chung
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Re: White Bible

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Runtu,

The White Bible is available online:

https://www.lds.org/bc/content/ldsorg/t ... vigate.pdf

https://www.lds.org/manual/missionary-h ... t?lang=eng
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_Runtu
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Re: White Bible

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I'm aware the current one is available, but I'm interested in the one I had 30 years ago.
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Re: White Bible

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I shredded mine about 7 years ago along with all my missionary stuff including journals. I shredded my missionary call with Spencer W Kimball's signature drawn from the automatic pen machine. I'm pretty sure the only think I kept was my plastic name badges but maybe I need to check the trunk and see if I did keep something else. Hmmm.
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Re: White Bible

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Runtu wrote:


I'm aware the current one is available, but I'm interested in the one I had 30 years ago.


I'd be curious to see how it's changed.

Mid-80s. My mission president had a rule that we were to keep it with us at all times. Maybe that was a church-wide rule. Were also to read it during companionship study at least once per week. So it's something that I read probably around 100 times, yet I only have a vague recollection of it. I remember most of the rules, though.

No swimming? Well, surfing isn't swimming. And it also couldn't be swimming if I could still touch the bottom with my feet.

I'm pretty sure I tossed it as soon as I got home. Not for any ideological reason. Just that I'm not a pack rat and saw no need to keep it.
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