Mormon Missionaries
Mormon Missionaries questions and answers
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Q: Why do Mormon missionaries have to ride those dorky bicycles?
Wouldn't the missionaries be more impressive if they rode custom Harleys? They'd have to be real big ones, not the little Sportsters (the motorcycles, that is). After all, they are on a Mission from God.
A: If there's one thing you stop caring about awfully fast as a missionary, it's looking like a dork.
Anyway, in Hong Kong, we walked.
Q: Where can I find that calendar of the strapping young half-naked Mormon Missionaries?
I heard about it but I couldn't find it in Barnes and Noble.
Help me, Mormons! This is your last chance to convert me!
A: They would look better naked, but I cannot believe that anybody would become a mormon because they like their calendar?
I just love to answer my front door naked when they, or JW's, call.
Most just leave, so it saves me having to turn them down!
Q: When Mormon missionaries are trying to convert someone, do they talk about all the secret things that go on?
like secret handshakes, secret names, secret temple ceremonies, secret passwords and that they know where God lives near the star Kolob, or do they wait until after they join?
A: mormon missionaries teach the basics first - they will answer whatever questions asked that they can......
there are no 'secrets', only respect - and kolob is mentioned in scripture, which all are requested and counseled to read before joining.
Q: Do Mormon missionaries go to African countries like Angola?
Do they go to any African Counties? If so, do they provide practical help like digging wells or establishing schools and hospitals? Or do they just try to convert?
A: Yes but it is a sad story!!
The mormon church in South Africa will only give aid to those that will attend a service and ignore those really in need!!
Where I live mormon missionaries refused several times in the last couple of years to leave peoples property and the police had to attend to use criminal law to move them on. Now at the first sign of a missionary of any type the police attend and tell them to leave!! Oh sorry that is one good thing to say for them then!!
Bet you think I am biased!! Try again!!
I have worked with lepers, in disaster areas, with aid agencies and in charities to help the poor and disadvantaged. I was a director of several charities, deputy chairman of two and also did a certain amount of voluntary work!!
Now I am retired I do a certain amount of consultancy - for free - with charities, raise money for the babies aids hospice in Capetown and also do a little voluntary work.
Q: What sort of training do Mormon missionaries do to learn how to convert people.?
Do they use any psychological techniques?
A: My son is on a mission right now in Argentina. This is what he did to prepare. By the way, no psychological techniques were taught, but ways to approach people with respect and honesty were taught.
1. Missionary Prep Class: This is not manditory, but optional. My son attended for about 3 months once a week. Here they were taught about what it was going to be like in the mission field and they studied the scriptures.
2. Scripture Study: My son read his scriptures every day for years to prepare for his mission. He saved his money to help pay for it also. We have a Seminary program in our church for youth in High School and for the 4 years he was in High School he took a seminary class. This was held 5 days a week for about an hour each day. They study the scriptures over these 4 years.
3. MTC: Which stands for Missionary Training Center. After he had turned in his papers stating that he wanted to go on a mission and he received back his letter telling him where he was to serve and when he was going a time was assigned to him to check into the MTC.
New missionaries go to the MTC where they learn a language if they are going to a foreign country, the lessons, and what will be expected of them in the mission field. Here is where they say their good byes to loved ones for the next two years.
Before the missionaries go into the MTC they actually know what will be expected of them such as no dating, keeping with your companion at all times, getting up early, scripture study every day and prayer, working long hours, but this is the first time the actually get to practice it before going out into the mission field.
If you are a missionary and going to a mission where they speak a different language you will be in the MTC longer. My son was in the MTC for 3 months. Others who do not need to learn a language are sometimes there for only 3 - 4 weeks.
The Mission Field: When new missionaries get to where they have been assigned they get their first companion. The new missionary is the Junior Companion. The Senior Companion is to help the new missionary adjust and learn to be a good missionary.
Throughout a person's mission they will be transferred to different areas and receive different companions. As the new missionary becomes proficient in the language and learns to be a good missionary he becomes a Senior Companion and helps other new missionaries to learn the ropes of the mission.
Missionaries who are male serve for two years, those who are female serve for 18 months. Most male missionaries who go out are 19 at the time. Young women are 21 or older. A young man or woman is never forced to go on a mission but chooses to go. He and his family pay for the entire mission themselves, but the church flies them home at the end of their mission.
Once he decides that this is what he wants to do he meets with his Bishop and they discuss it. From there the youth fills out and submits his request to go on a mission. He must be living the standards of the church and have a testimony that this IS the church of Jesus Christ.
FINAL NOTE: All good missionaries know that it is not the missionary himself that converts people, but the witness of the Holy Ghost that whispers in the persons heart and mind that it is true.
Q: Is Egypt open to LDS/Mormon missionaries? Does anyone know how I can find out if there is one?
My friend and I have had an inside joke about him serving in Egypt ever since were 14, now he is putting in his papers, and I was wondering, is there even a LDS/Mormon mission field in Egypt?
** typo, sorry, when I say "if there is one" I mean, "if there is a mission field there"
A: Nope sorry
Q: Mormon Missionaries told me It Is A Commandment Not To: Drink Coffee or Tea or Alcohol?
Where's in The Bible that "commandment"?
Also they said the same thing about "Smoking" and "Caffeine"...
Am I that stupid that I cannot Find It In The Bible???
Please, clear these things to me???
Please?
Thank you!
A: And yet, many Mormons consume those things anyway. Pay no mind to that.
Q: When Mormon missionaries come to your door, do they say?
You will be assimilated. Resistance is FUTILE. You will pay 10% of your gross wages to the collective, you will wear what we tell you to wear, you will eat and drink what we tell you to eat and drink.
A: If they come to my door, I don't answer. When I see them on their bikes, I go inside. Once I was accosted by two young male Mormon missionaries and I told them I was not interested in a church which worked to take away the civil rights of law-abiding, taxpaying, gay Americans. One tried to tell me his brother was gay which may have been true, but it does not justify or excuse an immoral church promoting homophobia.
Q: How to get Mormon missionaries to go away?
They keep coming back knocking on our door. I've tried being nice, I've tried being direct. But they don't get a hint. It's really ticking me off now since I have a little baby at home and I don't need to knocks on the door waking him up.
how do i make them stop!!!!!
we did tell them we werent interested but they keep sending new people
A: Tell them. Ask for the Phone number of the Mission President.
Q: Mormon missionaries spread out, convert other to Mormonism, they create missionaries who spread Mormonism to?
others. Isn't that how viruses work?
A: lmao. mormonism is a virus. lol! you made my depressing day. to make more missionaries of course, so they can have a religion as big and popular and rich as other religions. in my opinion, its all bs.
Q: Three female JW's and two male Mormon missionaries just showed up at my door at the same time! What should i?
do?
Inspired by the what should I do retard.
A: bow-chicka-wow-wow!
Sounds like the beginning of a great movie.
(oh, yeah. You all know what I mean....)
Q: Did some Mormon missionaries ever knock on your door just in time for you to let them change your flat tire?
such good boys.
A: Yes they are inspired by the spirit and they are always willing to do service.
Q: Can Mormon missionaries wear ties that aren't just black?
My brother is LDS and is on a mission. I'm sending a package and was wondering if he would be allowed to wear a dark green tie that has shamrocks and says Happy St. Patrick's Day on it. I don't know the rules on their dress codes...so if anyone can help, I'd appreciate it.
Please don't waste your time with anti-mormon posts.
A: When i was a missionary, my ties were red and blue and green and brown. I left my ties at home that had big pictures of Spider-Man and such. I only took conservative ties because I thought that was appropriate if I was going to be an official representative of the church, but I would have worn a St. Patricks day tie on one special occasion as long as it's not something ridiculous with flashing lights or big beer steins on it or something.
Besides, you may be saving him from getting pinched.
Q: When Mormon missionaries come to your door, do you feel sorry for them because they've been deceived?
A: I feel a little bad if my door hits them in the face.
Then I realize that it's 8am on a saturday. After that I stop feeling bad.
Q: What do these have in common: ShamWow Guy, Billy Mays, Mormon Missionaries?
A: They are all irritating and show up at the most inopportune times. Vince the ShamWow guy is alright though. I like his product and use it everyday. Billy Mays is just a big loud mouth. "I can fucking hear you Billy....your Oxyclean detergent blows!" Mormon Missionaries are just sad, deluded young men forced by their church to spread their twisted view of Christianity.