I admit, I never took any of the missionary preparation classes and did not plan on it cuz I feel I have a testimony already and have read the Book of Mormon twice.
I will be expected to do 40 hours of knocking on doors??? hooo boooy, i am not good at that. I thought I would be going to people that want to hear about the Gospel.
Perhaps I should see if the UVU Institute offers a missionary preparation course that I could take next semester.. at least so I know what a mission is like and I can decide then if I do still want to go.
How much tracting you do totally depends on the mission (or the mission president). I served in Colorado. We had lots of contacts and plenty to do. We didn't need to tract to find people. I spent maybe 2 hours of my whole mission tracting. Seriously, we just didn't tract.
You may go to a mission that requires hours upon hours of tracting, or, you may go to one that requires none at all.
Just depends.
Thanks for that Always Thinking. May I ask if you are still a member? Its just your name and one of the other members messaged me and told me this place is full of Piranhas.
... our church isn't true, but we have to keep up appearances so we don't get shunned by our friends and family, fired from our jobs, kicked out of our homes, ... Please don't tell on me. ~maklelan
collegeterrace wrote:Thanks for that Always Thinking. May I ask if you are still a member? Its just your name and one of the other members messaged me and told me this place is full of Piranhas.
She became a piranha 'cause she was always thinking. Such is the fate of those who think too much. Beware lest the same fate befall you, CT. ;)
collegeterrace wrote:Thanks for that Always Thinking. May I ask if you are still a member? Its just your name and one of the other members messaged me and told me this place is full of Piranhas.
She became a piranha 'cause she was always thinking. Such is the fate of those who think too much. Beware lest the same fate befall you, CT. ;)
KA
Hi Kimberly! .. CT is that my nickname? :)
Oh so AlwaysThinking is a lady? That helps explains a lot. I heard that the sister missionaries do not track cuz its too dangerous and plus the dress and all on the bike just would not work? or walking all day in church shoes???
that's kinda a funny image in my head now.. a sister missionary riding a moutain bike in a full length dress. No chainguard would keep her dress from the front sprocket!!
... our church isn't true, but we have to keep up appearances so we don't get shunned by our friends and family, fired from our jobs, kicked out of our homes, ... Please don't tell on me. ~maklelan
We had sister missionaries in my mission, and yes, they rode bikes. They used the "girl's bike" style and not the mountain bike style that the elders used (to accommodate their dresses, of course).
With a chainguard, dresses didn't get caught in sprockets very often at all, if I recall correctly.
"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?"
We had sister missionaries in my mission, and yes, they rode bikes. They used the "girl's bike" style and not the mountain bike style that the elders used (to accommodate their dresses, of course).
With a chainguard, dresses didn't get caught in sprockets very often at all, if I recall correctly.
huh!
I just can't make a mental picture of that...... a girl in a dress on a bike.. I will google it and see comes up
found this:
... our church isn't true, but we have to keep up appearances so we don't get shunned by our friends and family, fired from our jobs, kicked out of our homes, ... Please don't tell on me. ~maklelan
I admit, I never took any of the missionary preparation classes and did not plan on it cuz I feel I have a testimony already and have read the Book of Mormon twice.
I will be expected to do 40 hours of knocking on doors??? hooo boooy, i am not good at that. I thought I would be going to people that want to hear about the Gospel.
Perhaps I should see if the UVU Institute offers a missionary preparation course that I could take next semester.. at least so I know what a mission is like and I can decide then if I do still want to go.
I suppose I'm a Pirana. I might be fibbing.
Peterson's ward, eh? Young college student? I kind of had you pegged as a middle aged, balding guy that gets hung up on grading papers with the word "cuz" in it (not that there's anything wrong with that, right?)
It stands to reason there must be a mission preparation class for wanabe mission presidents.
I admit, I never took any of the missionary preparation classes and did not plan on it cuz I feel I have a testimony already and have read the Book of Mormon twice.
I will be expected to do 40 hours of knocking on doors??? hooo boooy, i am not good at that. I thought I would be going to people that want to hear about the Gospel.
Perhaps I should see if the UVU Institute offers a missionary preparation course that I could take next semester.. at least so I know what a mission is like and I can decide then if I do still want to go.
I suppose I'm a Pirana. I might be fibbing.
Peterson's ward, eh? Young college student? I kind of had you pegged as a middle aged, balding guy that gets hung up on grading papers with the word "cuz" in it (not that there's anything wrong with that, right?)
It stands to reason there must be a mission preparation class for wanabe mission presidents.
You had me at hello.
Yeah Gaz PM'd me and said this place is a swarm of Piranha to anyone seeking to learn gospel truths.
Me middle aged? dunno depends...
Balding? Nope, I lucked out as I still have as much hair as I did in college.
Me as a mission prez? Not even when I was a member, I would have NOT been able to keep up the high pressure sales and deceit while gaining popularity points with the boys from SLC, points paid for by innocent lives of 19 year old boys and unwitting non Mormons duped by my crafty sales force.
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... our church isn't true, but we have to keep up appearances so we don't get shunned by our friends and family, fired from our jobs, kicked out of our homes, ... Please don't tell on me. ~maklelan
truth dancer wrote:The missionaries were tracking in my neighborhood today, as they do about once a month or so.
It got me wondering when the church is going to stop this practice.
In this day and age, people just do not want folks dropping in, they do not want to discuss relgion with those who believe differently, and they think missionaries are odd.
I mean seriously this is not the 1950's.
It is getting to be embarrassing.... not only is tracking ineffective, it seems to be doing more harm than good. It is making the church look kind of stupid.
I feel badly for the missionaries ....
~dancer~
In some areas tracking is the only way to find people, missionaries should receive new move-ins and move-outs, but no one thinks of that. Truth dancer, how would you have the missionaries find people to teach?
Inconceivable wrote:... It's an AMERICAN church. The moment an OUTSIDER (pretty much any non-mormon) sees these clones approaching, they will automatically go into defense mode ...
TD wrote:I mean seriously this is not the 1950's.
harmony wrote:TD, our leaders live in the 1950's. In the 50's, Fuller Brush and Avon went door to door. Door to door salesmen and door to door missionaries were nothing out of the ordinary. The rest of the world has moved on to the 2000's. Utah and our leaders are stuck in the 50's in some respects. The sales approach our missionaries use is not just foolish, it's downright destructive to the outcome. We'd have a lot higher retention rate of our converts if we'd revise the way missionaries teach.
With my 63 years I am a teenager, compared to the Brethren (the 15's + 70's +whatever). Maybe, it is because I didn't cease to think forty years before.
- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco - To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei
