A Mormon Missionary in the Philippines - Emma Pt. 2 | Ep. 1568

Описание: In Part 2, John and Carah discuss with Emma what it was like to serve an LDS mission in the Philippines, where missionaries were encouraged to baptize impoverished Filipinos by any means necessary, largely out of a desire to inflate mission statistics.

See Parts 1 and 3 of this series with Emma, who was raised in the Mormon "Prepper" movement.
https://mormonstories.org/podcast/gro...
https://mormonstories.org/podcast/fro...

Show Notes:

"I-Thou vs I-It Conversions: The Mormon 'Baseball Baptism' Era," by D. Michael Quinn, Sunstone Magazine, December 1993
https://sunstone.org/wp-content/uploa...

"Dr. Ted Lyon on LDS Church Change, Latin American Missions, LDS Membership Statistics, and Thoughtful Faith" on Mormon Stories
https://mormonstories.org/podcast/mor...

"Kiddie Baptisms? My Mission Experience in Guatemala," John Dehlin on Mormon Stories
https://mormonstories.org/podcast/mor...

"Stories from a CES Director, Mission President, and Trustee for Deseret Trust Company," Roger Hendrix on Mormon Stories
https://mormonstories.org/podcast/rog...

"How a Mormon Mission President Lost His Testimony," Roger Hendrix on Mormon Stories
https://mormonstories.org/podcast/rog...

"Tithing and the LDS/Mormon Church," Understanding Mormonism
   • Tithing and the LDS / Mormon Church  

Church Membership Information for the Philippines
https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist....

"New Temples Veil Mormonism's Decline," Simon Southerton on Mormon Stories
https://mormonstories.org/podcast/new...

00:00:00 Introduction and the history of fraudulent "baseball baptisms"
00:13:14 Unsure what to do with her future given the imminent end of the world, Emma pursues a mission in the Philippines
00:22:43 High pressure to baptize weekly, even if it meant breaking mission rules and processing illegal marriages
00:31:19 Truly converting people isn't for closers
00:55:55 Performance incentives: If you got a lot of baptisms, you wouldn't be sent home no matter what you did
01:05:33 "God keeps Filipinos poor so He can save them": Rampant abuses, guilt-trips, and urging converts to go without food so they had money for church
01:11:42 Did joining the Church improve anyone's lives? Did they at least receive assistance and a sense of community?
01:16:51 High numbers of low-quality baptisms, often of children, caused tension between missionaries and the local leadership; globally, it's causing attrition for the entire Church
01:28:06 Emma's mission president ultimately led to her faith crisis: "God had everybody in the whole church to choose from, and this is the person He picked??"
01:41:42 Coming home with a feeling of aimlessness, and the impact of her mission experience
01:50:24 Closing remarks and setup for Part 3

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