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The word conversion or converted is a buzz word
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You want a kind to avoid that because if people
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in fact people will see us as missionaries and they'll say you're converting
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and to us it's almost like well yeah it's good thing we aspire to be converted to the lord
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but as Indians see it's a different they're almost get different meaning
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and i think as historical there's been some historically some issues with maybe Chirstian churches
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paying people to stop beign hindu and to come to church now and giving them sarees
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which is kind of indian woman clothing sarees and they must be somewhat expensive so they're giving out sarees
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food money and that's called converting and so as for missionary safety is thats the big thing
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there be groups usually they're political groups that are very they're tied to fundamentalist religious groups
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and so they have concerns about chirstian churches especially missionaries and so i rememeber one time
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like you realize that they have simply you learn their symbol pretty quick
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and i think the biggest the most obvious one was color orange of a lot of orange and a certain political party
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and they would put lotus flower(BJP) i think orange lotus flower so i remember right and that was kind of a symbol
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that this was an area that was dominated by this political party
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and what they would do is it makes certain mission they make missionaries and it happened to a few in the mission
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they signed documents saying i was converting i was paying people to do certain certain and then throw you in jail
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because they had the power to do that and so that happened a few mission and never happened to me.