From All-American to Elder: The Mission That Killed the Dream
At 18, my husband was an All-American water polo player recruited by UCLA and top Division 1 programs. But in Mormon culture, college dreams get replaced by mission calls.
Instead of dorms and D1 competition, he spent two years in Nova Scotia, Canada as an LDS missionary—baptizing strangers in freezing water and wondering how faith could cost so much.
When he came home, everything had changed: the scholarship was gone, the body was gone, and the dream was gone. Then he found out why he wasn't sent out North America. His mom had secretly edited his mission papers—adding “asthma” and “severe…
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