When ambivalent missionaries knock on doors or try to build network with non-Mormons to recruit new members. Communication between people can become very unclear as if the doubting missionary can't keep up the facade and tries instead to manipulate people into joining the church instead of convincing people by talking about the faith?
What I mean is that when a Mormon manipulates instead of talking about the church and the faith, it is a sign that the Mormon is very divided about the own faith in the religion?
When a church's "truthfulness" is based on "evidence not seen" it's not always easy for missionaries to carry on a discussion with investigators who are interested in facts and evidence.
When there's no evidence to support the "truthfulness" of the Mormon church's teachings, the discussion will hit a brick wall where the missionary is cornered into telling the investigator to pray about it and the spirit will testify that's it's true. That's all they've got. Missionaries believe they are messengers of God and have the truth. I wouldn't call them ambivalent or manipulative (at least not all missionaries), just doing what they've been taught when faced with questions they can't answer. The missionaries are the manipulated ones.
I remember my nevermo father asking me what happened to the gold plates. I told him the angel Mormoi took them away. My dad laughed. I had nothing more to say. What more could I say? Tell my dad to pray about it? I wasn't ambivalent, I just had nothing. Who in this situation was the more manipulated?