cr0wnJ3wls comments

and they don't even ask for money from their congregations. My mission cost me about 10,000.00 out of my own hard-earned cash and I never earned a cent. It's volunteer work pure and simple. Pity some missionaries are such jerks to have people thinking the way they do though.

I dunno guys, I'm pretty stoked. I can understand ur points of views though (I've known some pretty over-zealous, hell-bent, horrible mormon missionaries) but I spent 2 years in Hokkaido as a missionary myself and busted my butt shoveling snow for old people, cleaning public parks, other community service etc. The members of the mormon church...or at least the ones I knew, were awesome and took really good care of me. They've wanted this for so long and so I'm happy for them.