Serving a mission dramatically changes most of these young men into very loyal church members for life. Retention of BIC Mormons who marry in the temple and have lots of TBM children is more critical to the church now than new converts, in my opinion.
Maybe that's right for most. But I'm not only one who left my mission with a bad taste in my my mouth about church.
Culturally, it's a requirement for temple marriage by the young TBM ladies. Can you imagine how different dating would be for Mormons at BYU if the church stopped the missionary program? That would be interesting to see!
Simple, either people would start tyring to get married at 17 or the church would set some age limit on marriage and many men would probably just get out of dating completely until they reach an age at which its acceptable to marry, basically when you bring back to only reason a man would ever have to plant and cultivate relationship with a woman as a friend, a friend who pursues her, makes all the plans. does all the work, and foots all the bills.. Some men like to do that even when no sex is involved. I don't know why they do it, but to each his own. I sure as hell wouldn't.
And when the confederates saw Jackson standing fearless as a stone wall the army of Northern Virginia took courage and drove the federal army off their land.
Maybe will someday begin going in random chatrooms and forums.
Yup women in the church wanna marry an RM. Sometimes I get put off of people that haven't been on a mission. And apparently mishes can tell which women just have chrushes and which would be willing to drop everything and move.
Imwashingmypirate wrote:Sometimes I get put off of people that haven't been on a mission.
Why?
"Finally, for your rather strange idea that miracles are somehow linked to the amount of gay sexual gratification that is taking place would require that primitive Christianity was launched by gay sex, would it not?"