Tough Lessons from Mormon Missionary work in Latin America

BYU Professor Dr. Ted Lyon has served as an LDS (Mormon) mission president in Chile. He has also served as the president of the Chile Missionary Training Center. He is currently serving as Temple President in the Santiago Chile LDS Temple. In this interveiw, Dr. Lyon discusses some of the painful lessons learned from LDS missionary work in Latin America in the 20th century.

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[TheNuncFluens]

I'm chilean and nobody in Chile takes mormons seriously. You're wasting your time here.

[ElderJoseph]

@cotonish " I promise you that we are not naive people believing in lies"

How can you promise this?

Did you know Joseph Smith used a Hat and Stone for treasure digging and then later using this same hat and stone he said he saw words appearing inside his hat and asked others to write them down and they became the Book of Mormon.

Did your ' inside four walls' ever tell you that?

[cotonish]

@lizzycathy what do you mean. are you trying to say that we are stupid????

We also have the capacity to analyse and notice right from wrong. I know the church is true, you have to visit it to know what happens inside those walls. I promise you that we are not naive people believing in lies, we have a strong testimony of all, nobody has hidden anything from us.

[elbosketube24]

Tuve el privilegio de tenerle como Presidente del CCM, antes de partir a mi misión en Antofagasta, en 2003. Saludos Presidente Lyon. Patricio Córdova.

[leydemurphy]

@athleticace24 I m chilean, I was missionary at that time in concepción, Chile; and i confirm the words of Hermano Lyon...

[athleticace24]

Those missionaries OBVIOUSLY weren't guided by the Spirit and that mission president should have IMMEDIATELY changed how things went. because of those ignorant missionaries there are TONS of members who really know nothing of the church.

-This brother is NOT an apostle of the Lord, and therefore none of his words can really be taken with that much weight. People go apostate all the time, including high-office holding people starting with Thomas B. Marsh. don't judge the church based on him

[Kannon12]

Here is the danger within the LDS church: They raise deceptive and dishonest people in their missionary training program:

7:50 "What did he learn, and what are the other missionaries learning from that experience? That by being deceptive, by being dishonest you can advance in the mission."

[Khemin]

It's simply a matter of basic personal integrity and morality and ethics. You don't claim it a non-issue to "...decide whether (the Church) is true or it's not true" while leading and directing young missionaries to DECLARE THE CHURCH TRUE to any and all they teach and baptize !!! You don't agree to ignore all the glaring lies and cover-ups of the Church while demanding of new converts that they gain actual "testimonies of the truthfulness of the Gospel" !!!

[Khemin]

If the Church is not what it claims so definitively to be, then it either needs to change its claims and "dethrone" its General Authorities as the "prophets, seers and revelators" that to this day it claims them to literally be... or else men like Dr. Lyon need to stop lying to themselves and others in leading missionary work in which young ignorant "salesmen" are commanded and directed to sell the lie that the Church IS actually "true" with literal "prophets of God" at its head !!!

[Khemin]

"I never went into the Gospel thinking that I was going to decide either it's true or it's not true... I went into the Gospel because it was a satisfying experience for me." - Dr. Ted Lyon (14:47)

That pretty much says it all... when top leaders of the Church, this man also a doctorate level "intellectual," have rationalized away the Key Claim of the Church as the "Only True Church" on Earth and, instead, chosen to either ignore (bad enough) or outright lie to themselves and others about it.