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Hey guys, so I couldn’t find the strength to tell my parents I didn’t want to go on a mission in between my farewell and leaving because I constantly had other family around and wanted to keep it as a small family matter. Now that I’m at my TBM grandmas house and I start the MTC in 2 days, I’ve realized I cannot keep it up any longer.

My girlfriend went over to my house to pick up some of my stuff and my parents told her that they knew I didn’t want to go on a mission but they made me go anyway because they wanted it to “change me”. Hearing that has definitely changed me, but maybe not in the way that they wanted.

So now I’m trying to come up with a way to tell my parents I want out without ripping them a new one like I’m so tempted to do. I’m thinking of sending my parents the CES Letter and saying something along the lines of, “I want you to read this with an open mind and then talk to me. I want to be able to actually communicate how I feel and not be forced to live a life of making you guys look good to everyone else.”

Is this the best way to do it? How did you guys do it if you had to come out as non-believing to your families?

Another Top Maps Thread, another Top Maps Thread with lots of MTC Member Maps.

For a moment, close your eyes (but keep reading), and imagine:

You're in an important university class, being graded on a bell curve. The professor shares with you that she will not be grading your work this year, but instead, she will entrust that job to a small group of students in the class. They won't grade their own individual work, but they will be entrusted to grade each others, and with no consequences, will be expected to not bump up the grades of those in their "grading circle", and not bump down the rest of the grades of the class.

Even if you trusted all members of that group as people, would you trust them to grade everyone's work without letting bias and unspoken tit-for-tats creep in?

Would you be surprised if in that situation, the evaluators did better than expected in the class?

If they responded to claims of biased grading with "well, it's because we are passionate about this subject", would your suspicions be quelled?

It's become a tired meme to complain about the MTC, but even at a surface level, we should all be able to see the problem with having a group of community members who are passionate about map making both make maps, and gatekeep the rotation. The results, as you'll see, discourage map makers, and have a negative effect on community map approval.

In discussing this with an MTC member, they suggested that we start a discussion about it, and put forth new ideas.

What do other online, map based games do to select maps?

What other systems could we use?

Is it time to move on from the MTC?

Now before we dive in too far - let's get it out of the way - I am bitter about my bad
maps not getting selected. I would also struggle to not let my bias creep in if I were an MTC member, and that's why I think this discussion is important.

"Okay, so why don't you just apply for the MTC, gain influence and friends among the inner circle, and then bask in the glory of eternal map-selection fame?"

a) I don't want to. Map testing is a grind. I did twice for 30 minutes and most maps suck, especially for a first game (including ones made by MTC members). Playing like 70 maps that way is brutal, never mind solo testing. This was even worse on maps I wasn't excited about because I didn't know the author. Full respect to the MTC for going through that work, making the top threads map, de

We want to get married before the BYU-I fall semester which starts on September 13. We can’t do it on the 3rd or 4th because of family reunion problems. We were thinking of the 28th of August but we want to be sure of when my brother is coming back.

I’ve been in MTC for a bit now, and I’ve really struggled feeling the spirit and having a sense of belonging.

Now as for the reason of this, I’m not surprised of and I have known for quite some time.

I have always wanted to serve a mission, and my testimony is stronger than at any time in my life. I feel as if I have enough faith to move mountains... almost. I’ve never questioned my faith and I want to serve the Lord my whole life. However, I left on my mission unworthily.

I shouldve talked to my bishop years ago about a problem I have with the law of chasitity. I’ve had issues with it up to the day I started MTC. It was very easy to break it, since nearly every other youth member in my ward broke it or the word of wisdom as well. I didnt really have many friends that wanted to help me keep the commandments. I feel extremely guilty for lying to my preisthood leaders, and then being endowed unworthily. I just worry that if I confess now, what others will think of me - expressly my family and ward members. If I confess now, I might have to wait 6 months to a year before going out again. Or, worst case, I wont be able to go at all. This scares me most of all. However, I know that if I dont confess that I will not receive the blessings promised to me that will help with my missionary service, and that I will be doing a MAJOR disservice to myself, my companions, and the people I serve. Not to mention the extreme guilt. But I’m stuck in this dillemma. Im sure someone will say “just confess, and it will work itself out”. I believe that, but... its just too hard for me to do. I’ve prayed for help and I know thats what I need to do, but I cant bring myself to it. Any thoughts and/or suggestions are welcome.

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Why are these MTC talks so hard to come by?? I remember listening to this talk almost three years ago now in the MTC and it has had an essential influence my entire approach and philosophy on how to "follow the spirit."

My sister is doing the MTC at home and is leaving to Michigan next week, and I really want to share this talk with her before she goes.

Can anyone on this subreddit show me where to access this talk?

The talk goes as follows for context: He is answering the question of "how do I know if its the Holy Ghost or me?" His answer is to quit worrying about it. He cites three of his life experiences demonstrating this answer. One of them is the twenty mark note, then of him as a stake president ditching a stake conference for a basketball game, and finally one of him having a "chance" meeting with someone at home depot.

So, I've had a Touch line for the last 4 and a bit years and never had a problem however, recently, I get almost no signal in my apartment!

We used to have full signal inside but now nothing. The moment we step out the door it's back to full again.

Nothing has changed in our building so I have no idea what's happened. Whatever it is, it's very annoying!

(I know other people have a lot worse problems, just wondering if there is a solution for this one!)

I was in the MTC learning Spanish to go to Chile Santiago West. I didn't have the courage to stand up for anything because TSCC had convinced me that I just barely cleared the bar of worthiness and I should be grateful that I was allowed to serve at all.

In a campus-wide devotional, the MTC President opened with a solemn warming. A number of missionaries had been sent home after it was discovered that they had formed a secret combination. They even wrote out a document in which they all covenanted to each other not to talk about their fighting club. Then they gathered in secret and engaged in violent activities against mission rules, and in some cases even stained the holy garment with blood. The Book of Mormon tells us that such secret combinations will be a sign of the last days, that they are abhorrent to the Lord, and that they will not remain secret from Him. Any missionary participating in such is not worthy to preach the Gospel. <Sternly gazes across the audience of missionaries as if we were all fulfilling ancient prophecy by having secret boxing matches in our underwear>

I knew that this was just a few teenage boys who were coping with a high stress environment by playing make-believe based on a movie, and I hadn't even seen the movie (still haven't). I'd shocked that they were sent home, but I did not have the courage then to speak out or do anything about it.

But I do now. That MTC President was an asshole.

I remember being shown a talk by Jeff while I was in the MTC where he says that going home from your mission will ruin your life. I remember some pounding of the pulpit and probably some alliteration. Anyone know what the talk is called and/or have a link to a video of it?

I was reflecting on my mission today, and realized I had a mildly interesting MTC experience and thought I'd share some of it. If nothing else, at least we can laugh at how ridiculous the Provo MTC is.

1. A 70 did a Tuesday devo about the I'm a Mormon campaign, and got "special permission" to show us the Tony Awards performance of "Hello!" from the BoM musical. I probably would have forgotten about the musical since I served in a country where no one had heard about it, but watching the video got it on my list of things to look up after my mission. The speaker used it as an example of what the world thought of missionaries, and how we needed to go out and "prove them wrong!" But I remember thinking it was not an inaccurate satire...

2. Squaw Peak, just above the Provo temple caught fire one day, that was kind-of exciting.

3. I was one of the last batches who stayed for 9 weeks learning a foreign language with a Roman alphabet. They later shortened it to 6 weeks for Latin alphabet languages and 9 weeks for non-Latin alphabets.

4. My last Sunday in the MTC was general conference where they announced the missionary age changes. All the missionaries cracked up when the camera showed a guy with a stunned face next to an excited girl, and the MTC president had to get up and tell us to settle down.

5. Since GC was shown a week later in my mission field, I got to watch it all again. For some reason the re-broadcast was in English, so no one really understood the big announcement in the moment.

6. Pres Monson's 95th birthday concert also happened during my MTC stay, and we got to watch it, complete with Broadway songs. With the blanket ban in all recorded music in the MTC, even hymns, it was a nice break. Several Elders I knew would rewatch the recording on LDS. org during their online language study time because the MTC had "sanctioned" the music that one time, and who was to say it wasn't still ok?

7. My whole district was totally convinced our practice investigator was a real investigator, even though they were white amd living in Provo, but for some reason only spoke some obscure language from across the sea. We totally fell for it! That's the power of suggestion right there

How was your time in the empty sea?

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Haiti missionaries were in our MTC district and they shared a story that their teacher shared with them. Story goes, a new missionary fresh from America got his back pack stolen off his back in a crowded market and instinctually yelled theif, the crowd caught the theif, stacked discarded car tires up to his shoulders , poured gasoline on him and burned him alive! They gave the missionary his back pack that had a water bottle and a couple Book of Mormons! Welcome to Haiti! Can Anyone verify this story!? Feel free to add your insane missionary story here. Best story wins. But inciting a mob which consequently sees a man burned to death might be hard to top on the crazy scale!!??

I found out last Friday that I've got MTC. A more rare form of a thyroid cancer. I've had some additional blood work done and my Dr. Is now scheduling me for a full body scan to see if it's spread.. Going into this all I heard or read about was how treatable Thyroid Cancer is, but with this scan coming up I am freaking out. I breakdown several times a day and can't help but fear the worst. Has anyone else had a full body scan done so soon?

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I’m having fun going through old mission stuff.....

April 2003 —— The sister missionaries in the Provo MTC had a special meeting just for them with the RS general president and others. The MTC presidents wife also spoke and told us all that we were not pretty people...seriously, she was that blunt. She told us that we needed to take more care of our hair, makeup and clothes so that we weren’t frumpy and represented the church better. My companions and others from our dorm floor thought this was hilarious and mostly brushed it off. We wrote what she said on our door (we had a hilarious list of ridiculous things people said, posted on the door for everyone to see) and even started calling her “mother superior” after that. “Don’t anger mother superior!” We were also told to express ourselves with quiet dignity. For fucks sake. I had so much fun with that one. I would slide down the railing of the stairs from the cafeteria to the doors going outside exclaiming “quiet dignity!” Of course I’d make sure no one was around to see us, but one time I did fly out the door right into a couple of Elders. Luckily they thought it was funny too.

I had a pretty difficult mission and was severely depressed for a lot of it, but I LOVED the MTC. I had so much fun. I was there for 2.5 months and did not want to leave. All the sisters on our floor were amazing and we laughed so much. thank goodness for some good memories.

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I was dreaming that I was a missionary all over again. As I was reporting to the MTC I was looking at myself and asking why am I here. I'm not active anymore and not wearing any garments. Something was telling me I was undercover(probably from watching a show with the fbi or cia in it).

As I'm in the dormroom or getting food at that giant ass cafeteria, all these missionaries were looking at me wierd. Wondering why was someone almost twice as old as them there.

At somepoint I'm walking through the hallways with a nongarment top on. Missionaries start asking why I'm not wearing any garmnets, I ask some back, why are you asking about my underwear.

Soon the commotion gets the MTC Prez envolved. To my suprise it was David Ass Bednar, as I remember him from my BYU-I days. He starts to bagder me like my old MP's during our montly interrogation meetings. About needing to wear the proper garments.

At this point I become somewhat aware I'm a grown ass adult that can make my own choices and decisions. I tell Bednar to FUCK OFF and berat him on why it inappropriateto to ask such a personal question. Mormon missionaries around us gasp in disbelief, that such a word could be uttered at a holy place. I might of told a few missionaries to fuck off also.

I wake up soon from the nightmare of being a missionary again, but grin in happiness that I told Bednar to fuck off.

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