LDS Missionaries Shot
January 3, 2006
A couple of missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were shot last night, one of whom dying from his wounds.
I remember meeting some rough people while I was serving as a missionary in the Caribbean and in Texas, but we obviously never had anything like this. I remember one time when we were walking through a neighborhood in Bridgetown, Barbados when the SWAT team came running up to make some sort of drug bust about 50 feet from us. It was pretty wild seeing a bunch of plain-clothes police running around with AK-47s on a few feet from us.
Another time, there was a set of missionaries that I knew of in Texas who were threatened because they were teaching the girlfriend of some big gang-banger there in the Poly area of Arlington. Apparently, he didn’t want any other guys going to see his girlfriend, for any reason, so he threatened them. As soon as word spread, the mission president transferred the missionaries to the other end of the mission.
