u/Mizizi-44

In 2014-2016 I served a mission in the Chile Osorno mission. I was at the very end of South America. It was very cold, snowy and rainy. I wouldn't see the sun for months because there were so many rain clouds. And my mission was a walking mission. No bikes or cars to get around, we basically had to walk everywhere. The conditions were miserable. But I want to tell you a story my Argentinian companion told me.

So one of my companions (lets call him elder Lopez), he was assigned to the mission office. I have no idea why the mission president assigned him to the office because he was TERRIBLE with computers and organizing things. Long story short, because of Elder Lopez, a whole area of missionaries didn't get any supplies for a whole month. No books of mormon, no money, no nothing. This was in the middle of the winter so it was super cold. But they had no money to buy fire wood, so they ended up breaking down their bed frames and furniture for fire wood. And they were starving too, my companion told me that they couldn't buy food. He got so hungry, he was looking everywhere for food. And then he found a half rotten hamburger patty underneath the fridge and ate it. And he got a tape worm because of it.

My Argentinian companion eventually got supplies and money, but he suffered IMMENSELY because the mission office forgot to send him and his area money. And this story made me so mad. The church makes it's missionaries work in terrible conditions. With no pay. It's barbaric. They abuse their missionaries so much and I hate it. It's slave labor.

When they finished remodeling the Saint George temple, they made the top black. I thought this was really strange because before it was all white. But making the top black reminded me of how the majority of the members in the Mormon church are good people trying to do what they think is right. But it’s the leaders at the top that do the vast majority of the harm. They are the black rot that harms the rest of the church. And every time I see the Saint George temple and see it’s black top, I am reminded of this idea.