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Yes I did serve a mission for the LDS Church because I believe in the message of my Church and wanted to share it with others.

If people wanted to listen I was happy to talk about my faith. We’d get into discussions, but I tried very hard to avoid being mean-spirited and offensive.

If people are satisfied with their own beliefs, even if I might disagree on some points, I think they should have the freedom to live and practice as they please. And I will try to be kind and helpful and friendly towards every one.

I think that was what Christ was trying to teach us in the parable of the Good Samaritan.

Yes I did serve a mission for the LDS Church because I believe in the message of my Church and wanted to share it with others. If people wanted to listen I was happy to talk about my faith. We’d get into discussions, but I tried very hard to avoid being mean-spirited and offensive.

Did you ever...
...talk about the "universal apostasy" -- thereby effectively calling all Christians you discussed that with "apostates?"
...cite D&C 1:30 to anyone, thereby implying that you represented the "only true and living church upon the face of the earth"?
...cite anything from 1 Nephi to anybody you talked with, giving credence to a book that claims there's only two churches -- the church of the Lamb (which I'm sure you believe is the Mormon church) & the other one to which all other churches would thereby fall under his umbrella -- the church of Satan (see 1 Nephi 14:9-10).
...talk about the "first vision" of Joseph Smith with anyone during your mission? If so, you directly supported ALL of the Lds "scriptures" surrounding that vision -- as found in Joseph Smith - History, Pearl of Great Price. That would, of course, include vv. 18-20, which labels every single creed as an "abomination" to the Mormon god...not a single one as honoring God...it also labels NONE of the Christian sects as worth joing...that we're essentially heart drifters from God...and that ALL of our professors are supposedly "corrupt."

I'm sorry, but this kind of "cafeteria Mormonism" -- where you perhaps only initiate an "iceberg" of your past presentations about Christianity and/or beliefs about them in these online convos -- but neglect to share any of the above you may have shared on your mission...
...or you neglect to also mention that your offerings/tithing $ goes toward the translation of all the above into over 100 languages to pay for this kind of slander of Christianity...
...or you neglect to also mention that your offerings/tithing goes to pay for Lds curricula & Lds.org & Lds publishings to likewise highlight all of the above...
...well, you can see we might come to understand that the typical Mormon approach to all of this is to speak softly but carry a big Pearl of Great Price, D&C, & Book of Mormon stick...where you let these do the bulk of your bashing...while also guiding your accusations of Christians as being...
...apostates
...creedally abominable...
...corrupt...
...powerless...
...heart-drifters...
...unworthy of joining...
...the church of Satan...
...and by implication, a false & dead church...

So, have you ever repented of any of the above?
Have you ever told SLC you don't want your offering/tithing $ going toward the translation, publishing, republishing, etc. of any of the above works?

No?

Well, nice comprehensive slam job of us Christians, then. (When will Lds ever take responsibility for what their leaders publish about us, given that it rides 100% on offering/tithing funding???)