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Hey Baby,<br />
I went to<br />
China on<br />
my mission<br />
Tracting for the<br />
By Jennifer Borget<br />
John was a new student at BYU, a recent returned missionary<br />
who served in Guatemala. He scoped out the<br />
women during his first class period, American Heritage,<br />
and spotted a woman that intrigued him, she appeared<br />
to be Hispanic and this appealed to his<br />
interest. Throughout class he thought of ways<br />
that he could run into her and start some sort of<br />
a conversation. He needed<br />
I’m from<br />
Arizona,<br />
Idiot!<br />
to. After all, this was a class<br />
with over 800 students and<br />
this could be his one chance<br />
to meet her. For all he<br />
knows she could be the one.<br />
After class he hurried to meet her. He introduced<br />
himself and tried to start a casual conversation...<br />
in Spanish.<br />
“I’m sorry, I don’t know what you’re saying,” the<br />
woman replied as she rolled her eyes and walked<br />
off.<br />
We’ve all seen those movies spoofing on LDS<br />
culture and returned missionaries, a lot of which<br />
are starting to get pretty redundant and old. But<br />
let’s face it; that is the culture here in Utah, mainly<br />
here in Utah Valley, and a lot of us either fall into<br />
those stereotypes or know someone who does.<br />
There are not many places students can go for<br />
a college experience quite like one in Utah Valley.<br />
BYU and UVSC are campuses with thousands<br />
of LDS returned missionaries who have served<br />
around the world. Many people learn to love those<br />
that they live among. One of the many trends that<br />
come along with being a returned missionary is<br />
wanting to date and marry people from the region<br />
they served.<br />
Many men that come home from their missions<br />
are ready to jump back into the dating scene. For<br />
a lot of them, dating is not the same as it was before<br />
they left. After living in a different area of the<br />
country or even the world, they have grown accustom<br />
to new lifestyles and people.<br />
It is quite common in Utah Valley to see men<br />
who have served a foreign-speaking mission<br />
and will suddenly only date girls or be strangely<br />
crazed with girls that speak that language. A little<br />
less common is the men who choose to go back<br />
to the place in which they served their mission to<br />
marry a girl they liked there.<br />
Some people find returned missionaries that<br />
seek out others that are from the region they<br />
served as trendy or unusual. However, others feel<br />
that it’s romantic.<br />
UVSC student Zach Ross, 23, is engaged to a<br />
woman from his mission in Santa Rosa, California.<br />
He said that before his mission he knew he<br />
never wanted to marry a girl from Utah, although
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