When I was in the MTC, one of our RM Russian instructors taught us that we should NEVER say "I know the Church is true" in Russian because it sounds stronger in Russian than it does in English, and if we tell Russians that we "know the Church is true" it will just rub them the wrong way.
I've always wondered if this instructor used the language excuse to encourage us to use more moderate language, or if he really believed that "I know the Church is true" sounds less extreme in English than it does in Russian.
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