The San Luis Shrine Missionary Desecration: Juvenile Recklessness or Criminal Acts? In March 2008, Catholics of San Luis, Colorado, were outraged when they found photos online that depicted LDS missionaries vandalizing-and allegedly desecrating- their shrine. Forgiven, but not forgotten, the act evokes a 1972 public relations debacle when two LDS missionaries served six months in a Thai prison after posing atop a Buddha. In this session, a panel of returned missionaries will explore the meaning of these acts in light of their own mission experiences and propose historical, ecclesiastical, and international contexts that may help us understand the ‘tourist recklessness’ in which LDS missionaries often engage

Hugo Olaiz, Stephen Carter, Troy Williams, Robert Kirby, D. Michael Quinn