Okay. Wrong way to start a holiday weekend. We live in a very mormon area in the Southern part of Salt Lake County. Been here 20 years. Many mormon neighbors that I'm friendly with, but not that friendly. They know to not bug me about the church. Haven't had missionaries knock on my door in 6 years. Especially since the last one that did broke my sprinkler head with his bike. LDS Inc. wrote me a $150.00 check for repairs. They've stayed away since that. All of a sudden, 3 missionaries showed up on my porch today. Two were standard issue kids with standard issue outfits. The other guy was about ten years older and stood behind them. He was wearing a blue suit and a purple tie. Who would that guy be? I sent them on the way before they could start their stuff and didn't ask the 3rd guy who he was. I've been annoyed by missionaries many times but never had 3 show up. Anyone know why the 3 crew?
It can be a few things. Ward Mission leader assigned to drive the elders around. Could be newbie's out in the field and they are getting trained in real life. Could be one Elder has a companion in medical facility or has been transferred, so he is tagging along with the other two so he is never alone. Since you mentioned he is older, my bet is the local ward\stake mission leader.
A few years ago I had three show up at my front door. I knew the senior one amongst them. So I chatted with him and we joked a bit. The newbie (being trained) who had been out for about two weeks puts on that serious look of spiritual arrogance and tells me he is inspired to "call me to repentance". The senior slaps his forehead and groans while that 18 year old snot stares at me in his cleanly pressed white shirt.
I told them they could leave now, made a call to the local mission leader and told them to never step on my property again.
Your area is part of the Salt Lake City south Mission located in Sandy. You can call the mission offices and ask them to not visit your address. I cannot promise they will listen or tell the Elder assigned to never visit, but you can give it a shot.
In my case the local leaders knew me personally since I was a former member, which gave me the advantage of getting listed as no more visits. They did not want to piss me off more than they had.
Hi. I just Googled that guy. Apparently he was MP from 2016-2019. Now, "J. Christopher and Erlynn E. Lansing will serve as the new directors of Church Hosting beginning July 1, 2021."
My question is; will the new MP be located at the same address? Thanks.
Probably yes. they're a corporation, and that's how corporations generally work. Call them and see. The worst that could happen is you get a wrong number.
If it is now a wrong number, you could make a new friend because of the likelihood that the person who answers has probably gotten tons of calls intended for the MP . . . and they probably weren't calls to offer praise or congratulations!
Still a working number. Where does a MP live? With another member, in a house? I want to show up at dinnertime to interrupt and annoy him to tell him to leave me alone.
Isn't it ironic that an organization that is so hell bent on collecting data about EVERYONE else on the planet can not be bothered to update its own public relations (that's the point of mission presidents) office updated.
Two quick and somewhat funny phone stories from my missionary days. First, there was an elder who would call the phone company when he was transferred to a new apartment. This Elder Banks couldn't leave it alone that the mission office had every set of missionaries listed by their town and geographical location~ LDS Missionaries N Beeville. I was in one of his apartments where the phonebook listed Elder Banks as our number:(
Another oddity (and it was awesome!) was that my zone leader was in a different area code. In fact, only one set of missionaries had a toll free number who could call everyone in the zone. Those elders resented the constant relaying of stats and messages. They would unplug their phone after 5 pm. The zone leader was always in a huff that nobody was calling him- well dumbass we weren't calling you because the mission office charged you for every toll you were charged for long distance calls; even church business calls were deducted out of your monthly allotment.
You think being an MP is close to being a ghawd? Spending 3 years riding herd on a bunch of teenagers, many of whom don't want to be there, for no pay is not my idea of heaven.
Yeah, living expenses are reimbursed, Big whoop. While the church is pretty generous in what it will reimburse, the MP does not get to pocket any of that money. It goes to the provider of the item that generated the expense.
BofJ, what if the MP is in the US and has a Costco card AND the Costco credit card, with 4% back on gas and lower percentages on other items? Frequent flyer miles?
Do you think he hands the yearly 'reward' back to the church?
The same could be true for all his/her cash-back cards.
I have faith that many MPs cheated and clawed their way up the business world ladder, thus becoming visible to their betters and that the calling wouldn't change their deep-seated tendencies.
I can even imagine a high-level church leader rolling his eyes when an MP tries to do "the right thing" by handing over the yearly Costco card 'reward' and mentally mocking the MP for being a goody-two-shoes*.
*does this old saying mean that those with only one shoe are bad people?
This expression alludes to the main character of a nursery tale, The History of Goody Two-Shoes (1765), who was so pleased when receiving a second shoe that she kept saying “Two shoes.” The goody in the story is short for goodwife but means “goody-goody” in the idiom.