They will be totally brainwashed before they can shave. Always no problems with that nasty M habit. They will be married by. 20 with six kids before 30. God help them the church wont.
I think most young men (at least in the U.S.) turn 18 when they are still in high school. Making such a change could cause a lot of problems ... but who knows? The Mormon church has done a lot more unusual things than this in the past!
That the cia and the military are jumping through that window, and if you have doubts, well isn't saying "I MUST SERVE MY COUNTRY AT WAR" a lot better than a hang-wringing and confessing, "I don't actually be-LIEVE any more."
OK, I know someone who works in the COB and would be in a position to know. I'll try to get DH to give him a call because this guy would know for sure - if he's allowed to tell and not "lie for the Lord."
The problem is, some kids like my nephew, turn 18 during the beginning of their senior year in high school. Nephew had to repeat kindergarten. He turns 18 at the end of September of his senior year. Leaving when you are 18 would take a lot of kids straight from graduation - some may even go for early graduation - and straight from their parents house to the mission field without even one year on their own to manage their money, learn independence, be away from family and manage on their own etc. Sounds like a way to increase the emotional problems of missionaries enormously. They are already having a problem with kids giving up their texting and FB and immediate connectiveness with family and friends but to increase the problem by taking them straight from family to the traumas and trials of a mission? That's nuts.
...I imagine it would be set up so guys are ELIGIBLE to go on missions after they turn 18, not that they'd need to drop everything and go the moment they turn 18. After all, they don't drag 19-year-olds out of the middle of a semester.
Let's face it, a Mormon mission is simply a form of "hazing." It takes an acolyte and makes him an elders quorum member. Whatever his age, he is at great peril for mind control tactics that have been developed for over a century.
I think its so theres no gap years or silly stuff like that. Also lots of college and uni corses arnt just the one year anymore so the afterlife insureance salesmen are chooseing to do uni instead.
It also means when a mishi gets into college they are all ready for being on the meat market.
That's going to make college that isn't BYU a tough sell. Graduate from HS, leave for a mission, come back THEN apply for college while what, selling house alarms or Amway for a year in between?
The oldest got back from his mission last year and went to BYU. He failed all his classes the 1st semester. He ended up dropping out and trying to sell alarm systems back east. He's scheduled to go back to BYU this fall. He is 22 years old with nothing to show but a HS diploma.
Oh, he also has PTSD from being in a mission in S. America where he was in terrible neighborhoods and witnessed murders.
My oldest son turns 18 in April and if they try to get him to go on a mission with no college under his belt, I will turn real ugly, real fast!
I had a McConkie family in my stake. Grandson of some legand or something I know nothing about. Anyway, Mr. Samuel must have been a teenager when I first met him at a Youth Conference dance a few years back. The girls were all over him although I don't know why, he was a total dick.
Moving on, rumor had it that because of his background he would be lucky enough to serve a mission at age 18. Didn't really follow the story or know if he is on a mission, but I know it isn't impossible or unheard of for royal blood.
Maybe they tested some lab rats that set a good example so they are considering moving a year earlier?
Will be very interesting to tap into the mormon community if this does come to pass.
> Moving on, rumor had it that because of his > background he would be lucky enough to serve a > mission at age 18. Didn't really follow the story > or know if he is on a mission, but I know it isn't > impossible or unheard of for royal blood.
If your dad is a mission president when you turn 18, you go straight on a mission, presumably because it would be a financial burden to go to college. I've known several guys that served at 18 because poppy was a currently serving mission president.
Makes sense. Get'em straight from home, before they can "develop any bad habits."
We all know the number of missionaries are dwindling--and it is NOT because the church "raised the bar." This is more proof. The 18-year-olds will bring up the numbers.
No not 18. I heard they were going to start calling them at 17. Because at 17 they still "know everything" and because mothers of 17 year old boys won't miss them.
Here in the UK (all my posts seem to start like that recently!), the Area President has given permission for 18 year olds to be called on missions.
This is due to the situation that Sixth form college (for US, read High School) finishes at 18, prior to going to University.
As I was one of the oldest in the school year (having a early September birthday), I had my 19th birthday in the MTC (and 20th and 21st on my mission!)
But if (big if!) my son, whose birthday is in June, went on a Mission when he was 19, he would have to wait a whole extra year (on top of the 24 months) before starting University.
I have also been told that it is not well advertised, and this is something that still needs discussions and agreements between ward and stake leaders etc.