Posted by:
azsteve
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Date: May 03, 2015 11:50PM
It used to be several years between times when I would see missionaries in my neighborhood. I live in Phoenix Arizona. For the past few years, I've been seeing them around everywhere, sometimes every week or a few times in the same week in diffrent parts of town. It didn't used to be that way. I understand the surge of new missionaries with the age changes. But this still seems to go beyond that.
I have a theory. The church has been on the defense and loosing a lot of members for the past decade. The internet has really punched holes in their ability to control people, and has revealed to everyone what the church is really all about, mostly money and prejudice.
If you compare the church to the human body, they're wounded in multiple places world-wide. But all of the resources need to be applied to protect the vital organs first (Arizona, Utah, and Utah). What better way to counter bad PR than to send in thousands of extra representatives to work with the members? That's how they get access to non-members in high-LDS areas anyway. I don't think that missionaries tract in these areas anyway. So they spend most of their time working with the members, countering all of the bad PR.
Does anyone know if this is what's really going on? Is the percentage of missionaries going overseas shrinking? All I know for sure is that I'm seeing too many of them everywhere I go the past few years. Does anyone know the reason for such a dramatic increase?
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 05/03/2015 11:54PM by azsteve.