Let Me Posit A Missionary Situation For You

Submitted By RaggedCompany
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entheos,

Let me posit a missionary situation for you. Elder X is the financial clerk, working in the mission office. His MP brings a receipt in for reimbursement for the rental of two motion pictures, in order to be reimbursed out of church funds. The top of the receipt is missing, but near what is the new top is handwritten the name of the video store and a date. Below, yet appears the total charge.

Suspicious, X digs out of the office trash can the original top of receipt, which had been scissored off before tossed in the trash. It shows two XXX titles having been rented by the MP, listing the mission home address.

X calls and reports the situation to a GA at the Missionary Dept in SLC, who assures X that it was necessary and the 'right thing to do.'

Next morning, another GA calls in need of a ride from the local airport to the mission office. The MP picks him up. The GA confronts the MP while en route.

At the mission office, the GA individually interviews the office staff one at a time. When X is interviewed, he's told by the GA that the MP claimed he'd been instructed by the Dept to send another missionary home two weeks earlier for having viewed those movies while on his mission, and the MP couldn't imagine that a movie could be that bad. So he rented the movies to see for himself, watched a few minutes and turned it off, having concluded it was that bad. The GA said he'd interview the MP's wife too, but hoped it panned out because the GA did not like