Posted Nov 26, 2010 My Friends, Today marks a fairly significant transition in approach. I will no longer be making my major posts here in Yahoo Groups but on the freeread.com website. There … [Read more...]
Mission Experiences, Chapters 1 & 2
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Mission Experiences A True Story By J. J. Dewey Intro: Even though I moved on from standard Mormonism many years ago I find that all belief systems we have moved through are growing experiences … [Read more...]
Mission Experiences, Chapters 3 & 4
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Chapter Three A Spiritual Roadblock After settling down and attending church the first time I had a pleasant surprise. I found the English members there were much more knowledgeable and eager to … [Read more...]
Mission Experiences, Chapters 5 & 6
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Chapter Five Restoration Over the next couple days in the mission home I got worse instead of better. On the second evening I felt like I was going to die. This was discouraging for several … [Read more...]
Mission Experiences, Chapters 7 & 8
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Chapter Seven A Strange New Start Finally, after seven months as a junior my day of opportunity came. I was promoted to the senior position. I was somewhat baffled over why this took so long as I … [Read more...]
Mission Experiences, Chapters 9 & 10
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Chapter Nine The Shawshank Elder Because of the warning I had I was expecting Peterlee to be a tough town, but as we proceeded with the work we found the people to be reasonably receptive. Since … [Read more...]
Mission Experiences, Chapters 11 & 12
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Chapter Eleven A Contest and Good Conversation Elder Ware and I worked hard and before long we were breaking mission records in baptisms. Quite a few of these were investigators that we started … [Read more...]
Mission Experiences, Chapters 13 & 14
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Chapter Thirteen When Soon Means Soon We rode our bikes to Margaret’s house to say goodbye. She was the daughter of a coal miner and lived in a miner’s housing area. The housing like many in … [Read more...]
Mission Experiences, Chapters 15 & 16
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Chapter Fifteen Junior Again Shortly after I retrieved my luggage I received another transfer. My time in Lancaster had a number of drawbacks that hindered success. First it takes about two … [Read more...]
Mission Experiences, Chapters 17 & 18
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Chapter Seventeen Creating a Barrier It seemed as if the conversion of the Sherlocks was in the bag and we felt as if we were floating on cloud nine during the next day, but as the evening drew on I … [Read more...]
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