For Mitt Romney and other Mormons, missions are like a ‘refiner’s fire’

June 13, 2012

source: Religion News Service

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MR says: Reading about missionary work from an outside perspective is so interesting. This writer does a good job.

At age 19, Mitt Romney was a typical college student, schmoozing about politics, pulling pranks and sneaking away to see his girlfriend. Then he went on a 30-month Mormon mission in France.

He returned to the U.S. in 1968 ready to start a family, steeped in his faith and eager for more responsibility in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

“On a mission, your faith in Jesus Christ either evaporates or it becomes much deeper,” Romney later said. “For me it became much deeper.”

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