70 makes Racist remark to room of missionaries 😀

During the last transfer of my mission, Elder Teixeira of the 70 came to speak to my mission. First of all, an apostle was supposed to speak but had to dip like 5 minutes before. So when we found out we got Teixeira instead of an apostle, the morale in the room was already pretty low.

He only spoke about how to drive our numbers up and that we don’t work hard enough. I didn’t even hear him mention Christ one time. It was horrible and to make it all even worse…

A sweet, sweet sister in my mission from a very rural area of [Asia], that worked SO incredibly hard to learn English, asked him a question (I don’t remember what she asked) and in response to her question, Teixeira pulled his eyes back making them slanted. He then said “CHING CHONG CHING CHONG blablablablabla I didn’t understand a word you said!!!” All while still keeping his eyes slanted.

When I tell you I’ve never felt the air around me so heavy… to this day I can’t even explain how horrible the room felt. The spirit, the good vibes, that were there immediately left. We were all speechless. My pres was speechless. Teixeira, not reading the room kept on with his lesson about how are numbers are too low and that we’re not working hard enough. No one participated when he asked questions. He got tangibly angry at us and eventually just gave up on his “devotional.” I believe my mission president sent out an email later that day to us all saying that “he is only a man and even servants of the Lord make mistakes.”

This was the red flag to me that the church is not what it’s cracked up to be.

ETA removed Sister’s country of origin to protect her.