I didn't go on my mission until I was 21. There was a steady 2-years of the same questions "Are you going on a mission? Are your papers in yet?, etc." To make it worse, my bishop was a recently returned Mission President! Who do you think he had on HIS radar, huh?
My way of going against this was to wear a different color shirt (other than white) every Sunday to try to avoid that "fresh missionary look".
If I had left at 19, I KNOW I would've wasted that time - because my heart wouldn'tve been in it. This did give me a chance to serve in different church callings during this time and that helped me exercise more faith and feel useful to the ward.
I let everyone know that I was interested when I began wearing white shirts more frequently every Sunday.
So, wear colored shirts and grow out a goatee and let everyone think you're a "rebel without a cause"!
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Last edited by skippy740; 07-20-2008 at 05:07 PM.
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