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I can't speak for others, but reason I went was because of my testimony of Jesus that I wanted to share with others who didn't have a testimony.

How about the ones who DID have a testimony? Did you accept their testimony if it didn't agree with yours? Or did you try to convince them their testimony was wrong. You wouldn't accept MY testimony.

I didn't see anything wrong with the answerbag quote...and I don't seen anything wrong with parents writing off the money.

It just seems a little penurious of the LDS church to make members pay for their own missions when the mormon church is one of the richest corporations going. Many individual churches, (mine for example) have a mission fund that is supported by the general membership to support their missionaries. There is no hardship on the individual members.

And as I noted, I suspect that the LDS church includes the payment of these funds (raised from members) in their "statistics" when quoting the amount of giving to charity in their PR releases.

I Said: I can't speak for others, but reason I went was because of my testimony of Jesus that I wanted to share with others who didn't have a testimony.

U Said: How about the ones who DID have a testimony? Did you accept their testimony if it didn't agree with yours? Or did you try to convince them their testimony was wrong. You wouldn't accept MY testimony.

Of course I accepted their testimony, I even help missionaries from other churches with their Chinese (one guy had been studying for over ten years, and still people couldn't understand him. I guess the Gift of tongues really does come in handy.

As for your testimony, Grey, if you testify to me of Jesus, I'll accept that, if you testify to me of the Bible, I'll accept that. If you testify to me that the Book of Mormon is not true, and your story is fishy, I won't accept that, sorry. I had a guy on one thread tell me that I didn't exist, I didn't accept his testimony either.

U Said: I didn't see anything wrong with the answerbag quote...and I don't seen anything wrong with parents writing off the money.

I'm sure after reading all the anti stuff you have obviously read, you didn't see anything slanted there at all...

U Said: It just seems a little penurious of the LDS church to make members pay for their own missions when the Mormon church is one of the richest corporations going. Many individual churches, (mine for example) have a mission fund that is supported by the general membership to support their missionaries. There is no hardship on the individual members.

If you, or your parents don't have the means, there is a general fund, so? Are you actually telling me that if I went to your church and wanted to go on a mission and had saved up all the money they wouldn't let me pay my own way?

U Said: And as I noted, I suspect that the LDS church includes the payment of these funds (raised from members) in their "statistics" when quoting the amount of giving to charity in their PR releases.

I am sure that individual freepers quote from many and varied sources for their figures, I personally am not aware of ever having quoted any such figures, it's not relevant to the truthfulness of the gospel, and many who we disagree with philosophically do great works of righteousness, so? As gets pointed out to me here all the time, their works will not save them.