jokes

Yes, someone, maybe it was Cori although I don't remember, wanted to know something about what it was like being a missionary kid and what do missionaries talk about. I might have said something about the sort of friendly rivalry between El Salvador and Costa Rica. It is not really a big deal, just some things they say sound sort of funny because they are talking about things in a different sort of way, not hostile, just sort of the way different countries have different issues and sometimes they think the other country should do everything the way they do and also some missionaries in other countries were sometimes ribbing the missionaries in El Salvador, saying that we had it so good in "paradise" while their works in some other countries were much smaller than ours. There are many reasons for that. It is not just about the missionaries. It also has to do with the nationals in the individual countries and how they got organized and did a lot of things that maybe some people in other countries were not willing to do. So it is not just about what the missionaries do. There are a lot of factors. So the missionaries in Costa Rica think that everyone should do things their way even though they have far fewer churches but maybe more upper class people in their churches as opposed to El Salvador which always was focused on the lower class people as they were the ones who started everything from the beginning. It always was a grass roots thing in El Salvador more or less. So it is just about apples and oranges, not really anything to be taken so seriously. If I had known people would take it so weirdly I would never have said anything. Obviously some people have very short memories but that is how things were back then.