Shelise Ann Sola

I had a cousin who had a severe medical situation that was not handled properly.

Some missionaries are not given enough money for food.

I interviewed someone on our channel who was put into a hoarder's basement as a living situation, and it was so filthy.

She had asthma issues.

So the thing that bothers me the most is it's a billion-dollar corporation, and these kids are paying to go out

and be free marketing, free labor for the church to bring in more members who will bring in more tithing money.

So to me, it's just, it's a big MLM scheme where they're sending out kids to do this work.

And they're the ones who end up suffering in some cases, in a lot of cases, and the church doesn't need the money.

They really don't.

And in this day and age, when people have the internet, people aren't converting to Mormonism because they're like, oh yeah, I saw that Coastal Consciousness podcast.

No, thank you.

So that's why they're going to places

like Africa or third world countries where they don't really know any better.

And it seems like a good thing because they may be offering some type of help or exchange, but they don't really know what they're signing up for.

You can.

There are ways, but it comes with a lot of shame.

So if you come home early from your mission, your whole family is shamed.

You could say that that's a social thing.

The church isn't telling people to shame others who come home, but it's seen as something really awful.

In fact, well, I guess it's not entirely true because there was a sermon, I want to say 20 years ago or so, maybe a little earlier,