Comments about ‘LDS Church complies in Guyana’

Guyana is in South America? Weird... my globe must be broken, because mine says it is in Africa. Crazy. Whoa... look at that... there's a NEW Mexico. Awesome!

Get rid of that globe of yours. Guyana really is in South America. Were you confusing Guyana with Guinea?

Mr. Mapquest -

As I read the article and came to "South American", I thought I was really stupid for a minute!

Funny.

Now THAT is some fancy reporting!

Good job Desnews, good job.

Your globe really is broken then, because Guyana is in South America. Brazil is on its southern border, Venezuela it to the west.

You may have it confused with Ghana.

Good thing you didn't use your name because that would be really embarrassing. Guyana is just north of Suriname and just South of Venezuela. Guyana also shares a boarder with Brazil. Someone needs to go back to Geography!

>Guyana really is in South America.

I second that geographical observation.

Guyana is in south america... just google it

Ha ha that's funny that he thought it was in Africa. Go back to school buddy.

you guys really focused on the important part of this article (sarcasm intended).

To the 2:31 commentator,
You may have confused Guinea and Guyana.
To the 3:31 commentator,
I would have said west and east. I think Venezuela actually goes further south than Guyana, although it also goes further north. The easiest to eastablish fact is that if you are in Guayana and travel west you will end up in Venezuela, and if you travel east you will be in Suriname.
I am hoping good comes out of this. With the disruption in missionaries, local members will have to step up and fully run the Church there. I am not sure that they were not doing that already, but I would not be surprised if in some places they were relying too much on the missionaries to get the Church going.

apparently did not pass Geography 101 in college.....LOL!!

Your first impressions were correct.

Good job Matt, good job.

Guyana and now Venezuela. It's all about politics and ideologies. Americans are all spies to many people. Anti-American has always been a simple way to rally the people with hatred. Hatred works. Unfortunately.

No unhallowed hand shall stop the work from progressing. But that doesn't mean they wont try.

While on my mission in Spain (04-06), the same sort of thing happened and a number of the missionaries had to leave. The article states that the documentation had expired for the missionaries. Often what happens is the government is lax in enforcing immigration law and missionaries and mission offices also become lax in following the immigration laws. Then, whether capricously or not, the government decides to enforce the law again. Mission offices need to take these laws seriously, even when it appears that nobody is enforcing them. Obviously, if a country wants to throw you out they will find a way, but if one is always vigilent about following the law cirumstances like this can be minimized. It sounds like the church will be able to replace the departing missionaries with new ones. It appears to me this could have been completly avoided, in spite of the government being suspicious of the LDS church.

To mapquest
I for one could have made the same mistake, as well as some others who posted . I wanted to coment on your humer. I am glad you A found New Mexico !!!
I Found a New England!!
I wonder how many new things we can find on the Globe? Thanks for making me laugh!!

I remember once when I was married, we had a missionary from Guyana over for dinner at our house. He was a delight.

I served a mission in Europe 89-91, and I'm pretty sure I only had a valid visa for the first 8 days. In general I think the Church does a much better job these days in keeping missionaries current. Hopefully they'll be able to replace these missionaries soon and that those with expired documents are already happily serving in their new assignments.

Easy to remember Guyuana is in South America. It was there the Jim Jones tragedy occurred in the 70's. A sad chapter in American and Guyanan history.

I served a mission in Guatemala and El Salvador in 1974-76. For about 8 months in 1975 I was in charge of keeping the missionaries' visas current in Guatemala. I'd take a batch of passports to the government immigrations office every couple of weeks to extend the visas. We were meticulous and never missed a deadline in my experience.

As EuskalHerria suggested, the West Indies Mission office probably became lax because of lax government enforcement in Guyana.

BTW, my son served in Guyana during his West Indies mission, which ended a couple of years ago.