Posted by:
WiserWomanNow
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Date: April 23, 2011 08:25PM
If you run across pushy, aggressive missionaries, it is appropriate to be very firm in your lack of interest in their sales pitch.
However, most Mormon missionaries are on a mission because the pressure to serve a mission is severe and the choice not to serve a mission is social suicide in the church. Many Mormon missionaries are lonely and hate what they have to do, yet they know that they have to fake looking happy and spiritual in order to make the Mormon church look good. Mormon youth are between a rock and a hard place! Such missionaries are grateful for anyone who shows them kindness.
For more information on this topic, read the real-life experiences of Mormon missionaries on this link:
http://www.exmormon.org/mormon/mormon395.htm