Hell freezes over! Mormons stop knocking on doors

[Taro Toporific]

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Mormon Makeover: Missionaries Scrapping the Suits, Door-Knocking
motherjones.com | Feb. 4, 2014
Mormon missionaries are universally recognizable worldwide. They're the guys in the starched white shirts, dark ties, and name tags often seen riding bikes through neighborhoods from Tokyo to Monrovia, knocking on doors and trying to convert people just sitting down to dinner...the church recently announced a shocking new development: Some of its missionaries are ditching the suits, and with them, the door-knocking, in recognition that having total strangers bug people at home unannounced is perhaps not the best way to win new followers...
...even before that announcement, Mormon missions in California's Bay Area had already given up "tracting," or knocking on doors and trying to convert people, in favor of sending young people out to try to do more practical good in the world. They have been requiring missionaries, who generally serve a two-year stint, to perform "two hours of nonproselytizing community service every day, five days a week—up from the normal four or so hours a week"
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[Coligny]

Great, what am I going to do with all the ammo I stored to greet them ?

[wagyl]

My nephew told me the other day that he only let them in if they promised to do his dishes. He regarded it as a great way to get a weeks worth of dirty dishes in a shared student house done. They always agreed to do it.

[matsuki]

My nephew told me the other day that he only let them in if they promised to do his dishes. He regarded it as a great way to get a weeks worth of dirty dishes in a shared student house done. They always agreed to do it.

Not a bad idea...but I just gave up on answering the door. Lemur says she has to let the [insert religious text] thumpers in by order but deflects any religiousness by asking about their family or other personal stuff.

[IparryU]

how come morman chicks never do this shit? there has to be some that are door knocking and providing house services...

[wagyl]

I think in my nephew's case it ended up being a couple of 19 year olds living away from home, hanging around with a group of 19 year olds living away from home. I doubt that faith ever came much into it, beyond homely family values stuff. I can't see my nephew getting excited by stories of the Angel Moroni and the plates of gold inscriptions. Or Native Americans being lost tribes of Israel. Big deal!

IPU, missions are reserved for elders. Elders are only male. Give them time to get up to speed, they have already disavowed polygamy and recognised that God loves black people too, but there is a limit to the pace of progress.

[Mike Oxlong]

IPU, missions are reserved for elders. Elders are only male. Give them time to get up to speed, they have already disavowed polygamy and recognised that God loves black people too, but there is a limit to the pace of progress.

Their HP gots ladies wearing those funny name-tags...
http://mormon.org/values/missionary-work

[wagyl]

There I go again, letting my bum talk first. Although the Mormon site is PR propaganda, apparently 2007 statistics are 13% are single women http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missionary ... ifications

Can I instead say:
IPU, they will wear old fashioned underwear.

[Mike Oxlong]

There I go again, letting my bum talk first. Although the Mormon site is PR propaganda, apparently 2007 statistics are 13% are single women http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missionary ... ifications

Can I instead say:
IPU, they will wear old fashioned underwear.

7% retired couples?! Depends...or might be granny panties...

[wagyl]

Grannie panties would be shockingly risque! Try these on for size.

[Mike Oxlong]

Grannie panties would be shockingly risque! Try these on for size.

But they're magic, right? Like Harry Potter?

[yanpa]

There I go again, letting my bum talk first. Although the Mormon site is PR propaganda, apparently 2007 statistics are 13% are single women http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missionary ... ifications

So you're saying more missionary positions are opening up for Mormon women?

[Mike Oxlong]

[J.A.F.O]

I've had females come by from time to time. I will give credit to them, their education levels are usually pretty high. I had a mentor (lawyer) who said J.R. Clark school of law in Utah is one of the best non ivy league law schools in the U.S. and one of the cheapest.

[matsuki]

Grannie panties would be shockingly risque! Try these on for size.

But they're magic, right? Like Harry Potter?

If it weren't for all the polygamy jokes about mormons, after seeing those, I'd guess their "nation" is the only one that beats Japan when it comes to sexless marriages.