1779: Devout Missionary Leaves The Mormon Church - Hayley Rawle
Mormon Stories Podcast
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The Stigma of Serving a Mission
There was this perception that you really, if you were a Mormon woman who chose to go on a mission at 21 or older, it was because you hadn't found your husband yet. And so there really was a stigma. There was sort of like this stigma of either you were kind of lame as a woman, and that's why you ended up serving a mission,. not or you were just like supercharged turbo Mormon. You chose to serve a mission, but that was relatively rare. The vast majority of Mormon women just never served missions because it wasn't expected of them. What was expected of them was to get married at 17 or 18 and to start having babies immediately. So it was
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