Runtu Bolivia through a rose-colored view mirror

Runtu : The instructor clearly  / http://proza.ru/2023/11/27/343 / viewed Bolivia through a rose-colored rearview mirror USA

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    QLD : Australia : Queensland’s parliament on March 22, 2017  passed an amendment to the criminal code to remove the so-called “gay panic” defence-homophobic law) for accused murderers trying to reduce their charge to the lesser crime of manslaughter.

     2017 :  “Queensland’s criminal code must not be seen to condone violence against the gay community, or indeed any community,” said in a statement the Queensland’s Attorney-General and Minister for Justice Yvette D’Ath. “The passing of this legislation sends an important message that discrimination is not acceptable and that we value the LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, and intersex) community.”

      South Australia is now the only state allowing the “gay panic” defence.


    Being labelled a homosexual can bring about your death even if you're not one.

     That law is a danger not only to homosexuals but a danger to anyone – anyone can say he made an advance on me and get out on manslaughter.

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Before leaving, my future brother-in-law told me two things: “Don’t tell Jesus jokes, and don’t do ‘angel sightings.’” He explained that in his mission, missionaries would tell blasphemous Jesus-themed jokes, and he said that was where he drew the line on humour. Not having heard a Jesus joke in my life, this wasn’t a difficult thing to commit to.

The angel sightings, he said, were common in the MTC. One missionary would stand on chair beneath a sheet at the foot of a missionary’s bed, while another would lie on the floor and shine a flashlight up through the sheet. The victim would be awakened to find a glowing white being hovering in the air near the bed. I promised I wouldn’t do that, either.

The reason that joke was so effective was the folklore and superstition that had grown up around missionary work over more than a century and a half. Early church missionaries reported being attacked by demons in their sleep, prominent church leaders recorded visitations from various supernatural beings, from Cain to angels to God himself. By the time I got to the MTC, legends circulated about missionaries who received miraculous protection from Satan’s power. One in particular I heard from the pulpit in the MTC: a leader at the MTC had been shown in vision the dark forces arrayed against missionary work, but he had seen an army of angels in white surrounding the MTC to protect it. He warned us, however, that soon we would be outside the MTC, and the only protection would be our own righteousness.

I never had such experiences with the unseen, but Grolsch confided in me one Sunday that he had never received an answer to his prayers. He wasn’t sure that the church really was true. He was looking for that kind of supernatural sign that would confirm to him that he should be where he was.

I suggested that he pray about it, so he went off to the “prayer closet” on our floor. Some enterprising missionaries had emptied a custodial closet and had placed a sign on the door to indicate that this was a place where you could go to pray in private without interruption. That afternoon, Grolsch was gone for more than an hour. He returned looking a little frightened.

“I had a weird experience in there,” he finally whispered.

“What happened?”

“Well, I was in there praying—you know, really praying—because I wanted to know for sure if the church is true. I was pleading with Heavenly Father, and suddenly I felt this evil presence. It got really cold, and the hairs on the back of my neck stood up. I kept praying, even harder, but the bad feeling just got worse. It made me feel like the walls were closing in and I couldn’t breathe. It scared me so badly that I had to run out of there and come back here.”

“Well, maybe that’s your answer,” I said, trying not to look like I thought he was nuts. “If someone wants that badly to keep you off a mission, maybe that tells you it’s really true.”

He wasn’t at all happy with that answer, and for the rest of the time he was there, he kept pleading in his prayers for an answer. But none ever came.
One Sunday after church, he lay down on his bed and dozed off while I was reading. Suddenly, he jumped up, shouting, “Did you see that?”

“See what?”

“I was floating about eight inches above my bed, and I could see this dark figure coming toward me.”

“Dude, I was sitting here reading the whole time. There was no floating, and no dark figure. You were just dreaming it.”

“No, it was real. I know it was,” he looked really earnest.
“Whatever.”

Through it all the drumbeat of “confess … confess … confess” continued. One guy I knew finally broke down and admitted that he and his girlfriend had been in a hot tub naked the night before he went into the MTC.

 “But nothing happened,” he insisted. “I swear.”

He, like all of the other confessors, had to have an interview with one of the General Authorities, who are the men in Salt Lake City who run the church full-time.

Each week a General Authority would come to the MTC to hear the confessions of the guilty, and then they would decide on appropriate discipline.

If you had done something particularly heinous, such as sexual intercourse, you might even be sent home, making you a pariah within the church. Because the consequences could be so severe, a lot of people just lied and carried the guilt with them.

But not this guy. The guilt had weighed on him enough that he needed to clear it up. That week the General Authority assigned was apostle Bruce McConkie, who at that time had a reputation for being extremely stern and humorless. In the end, Elder McConkie decided that my friend was penitent enough and could continue his mission.

The other mantra was that we must be totally obedient to the rules. Over and over, instructors and speakers reminded us of the Book of Mormon scripture saying that we should obey every commandment “with exactness.”

 We were not to deviate in any way from the prescribed schedule, which again meant that Grolsch was constantly disobeying by staying up late and getting up early.

After a missionary in our branch got a concussion by sliding on some ice, the branch president again reminded us that the missionary was injured because, in breaking the rules, he had forfeited the right to divine protection.

One constant source of irritation to the hierarchy was that missionaries would order pizzas and have them delivered to the back fence. We heard over and over that this was a flagrant violation of the rules and showed a disobedient spirit among those who engaged in this pernicious practice. Yes, it was only a pizza, they said, but it really represented how willing we were to follow the Savior; if we couldn’t follow Him in such a simple matter, how were we going to follow Him in the weightier matters? But the pizzas kept coming, though of course, I never indulged in such rebellious behaviour.

But one morning I did cause a big stir among the entire MTC. I arrived in the cafeteria to see a bright yellow sign over the conveyor belt where you put your tray when you finished eating. It read: “Elder Williams, I have something for you. Love, Marie.” When I walked in, someone said, “Hey, your name is Williams. Is that for you?”

Slowly I made my way to the sign and stuck my head in the opening by the conveyor belt. Marie was there doing dishes, and she handed me a plate of peanut butter cookies and said, “I love you.”

The whole cafeteria burst into applause when I came out of the opening with the plate of cookies.

“Dude, I’m so jealous,” said Elder Lynn.

“Don’t be,” I said. “How would you like to see your girlfriend every day and not be able to even touch her?”

“Oh, definitely not, then.”

On Sunday evenings we had “culture class,” which was an hour-long lesson on the culture of Bolivia. The instructor was very enthusiastic about Bolivia, but he really didn’t teach us anything useful. He talked about food we could expect, except the food he described was the kind you’d only get on a special occasion. He said people would come up to us in the streets and beg for baptism; I thought that was ridiculous. We learned next to nothing about Bolivian history, politics, and attitudes towards Americans, all of which would have gone a long way toward helping us stay safe.

The instructor clearly viewed Bolivia through a rose-colored rearview mirror because he insisted that Bolivia was much more modern than we would expect.

“I heard that some missionaries don’t have electricity or running water,” one missionary said. “And I heard that there are open sewers.”

The instructor glared, his face going a little red. “This is the twentieth century, not the Middle Ages. Bolivia is not anything like that.”

Culture class did give us a chance to meet some of the other missionaries who would be going to Bolivia. Hermana Rockwell would be going on the plane with us; she was as friendly a person as I had met in the MTC, and for some reason, nothing fazed her. She was always calm and cheerful.

Two other hermanas would be coming a month after us.

One, a rather large woman from Idaho, told us she was going on a mission to find a husband.

The other sat quietly and ate her hair, one strand at a time.

I’m not sure we picked up anything in our culture class,
but we did see some of the instructor’s
souvenirs and hear some Bolivian music.

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