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BORROWED TROUSERS IBD

MAGGIE RAYNER
11 / 2016
9780994928849
Anglès

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A JOURNAL, KEPT SECRET &ldquo,No breakfast per usual . . . got a cold, covered in chigger bites, sun burned . . . lost six pounds . . . found a used car lot and got in the back seat of a big car. Slept sound . . . I know the Lord blesses me in my efforts . . .&rdquo, áá áWhen Maggie Rayner',s mother gives her the journal her father wrote before she was born, she discovers a man she never knew. áá áBorrowed Trousers: Diary of a Mormon Missionary draws the reader into the thoughts and feelings of a cowboy from Alberta serving a mission in Texas and Louisiana, from 1937 to 1939. Rich in the culture of place and era, his journal tells the story of living in poverty amid bedbugs and cockroaches, when he can afford lodgings at all. áá áWoven within are his interactions with various missionary companions, all struggling to subsist on one main meal a day. Sometimes together, sometimes alone, they walk and hitchhike throughout both states, tasked with collecting tithing from existing members for the multi-billion-dollar corporations of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and with finding new members. Sick and suffering, they are pitted against each other by their leaders to baptize the most members. áá áHalfway into his mission he falls in love while the woman he had planned to marry waits at home. á

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