Posted by:
OzDoc
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Date: May 31, 2016 05:26AM
I have been several decades gone from the insanity of Mormonism and grew up far removed from Utah.
Even as a child I could see that the missionaries and their activities were at a remove from the operation of the branch or ward. Missionaries were welcomed and fawned over by those who had recently joined TSCC but once a family or individual was entrenched in activity the missionaries became irrelevant and a nuisance.They would bring "investigators" along for a couple of weeks,baptise them, then missionary and investigator would disappear.
The adolescent girls would flirt but to others they were just a continually changing couple of clueless guys in ill-fitting suits.There was continual grumbling from the adults about the poor quality of the investigators and the fact that people were rushed into baptism then disappeared.
Reading missionary blogs produces this same impression. There is a disconnect between the missionaries and the rank-and -file members. Even with the forced "Feed the Missionaries Programme" it seems that there are two separate agendas. Missionaries complain about ward members not supporting or providing new contacts and I bet the ward members still bitch about the dunk and run converts.