Saturday, May 12, 2007

10 Ways to Ruin Your STM Trip



Straight Talk with Austin T Duncan


1. Misunderstand the purpose of your trip -Your trip is about serving our missionaries.

2. Openly question your team leader (in order to strengthen their leadership skills)
-Don’t bring that junk on the trip!

3. Anticipate keeping a rigid schedule
-Your team leader is your itinerary!

4. Complain openly and often
-Serve your team leader!

5. Seek personal comfort above all else
-Clean up after yourself. “Lord, I’ll put it down, You keep it down!”

6. Totally disregard physical symptoms
-Let your team leader know how you’re feeling.

7. Be a completely incompetent traveler
-Assume that your luggage will be lost.

8. Let a ‘Teen-age Heart-throb Sunflower Attraction’ distract you
-On the flight home bring out your moves.

9. Brainstorm new and innovative ways to change the structure of the [culture]
-Pending threat of a lifetime ban from STM trips!

10. Do not allow this trip to change the way you live, think or serve
“It’s not time to get spiritual on this trip; it’s time to be spiritual.”

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