I served my mission in the amazon region of Brazil and I don't see facebook and chapel tours making much sense there either. A lot of people without Internet and a lot of areas without chapels.
That is a great idea! Go on the LDS dating site and make a profile for Joseph Smith. Fill it with all the information we have on him and watch TBM women freak!
This is something they should have gradually transitioned into. They could have found out if it would work or not before they jumped in all the way.
I think they've made decisions lately trying to make it look like they're with the times and are on top of things. Already it looks like just the opposite. A lot of running their mouth, and then trying to hurry and catch up to try and make it work.
Things like knowing exactly how they were going to bring in more missionaries, where they were going to send them and house them.
I think they ran out of places to put them. That's what the whole internet thing is about. It's a rush to place a bunch of 18 year olds that are dreaming of going to Paris. Instead they're ending up in Utah stuck at a computer terminal in the Relief society room. Nothing to do? Start cleaning kids. Maybe you can even get to mow the church lawn.
Yes, that's the crazy about this whole "change". Apparently, LDSInc. HAS already tried this program in selected locations over the last few years. The program has been a failure. This is "raising on a busted flush".
They don't know what else to do, cuz they were so sure Mitt's first term would bring them huge publicity and access, and millions of new members. Now they have tons of new mishies, with nothing to do. And they don't want to send them all on expensive airplane rides, or house them on their nickel, or buy them more cars.
I have unpacked the lawn chairs that we put away after the election Now I just have to find bignevermo and the gang to bring popcorn.
The eternal law of unintended consequences is a principle of business decisions that has to be considered every time a new program is rolled out.
Mormonism is the Noni juice of religions. The more you have the less you like it. When I was traveling, a native showed me the fruit that Noni juice is made of. It reeked even when it was fresh and still on the tree. No one had ever figured out any use for it. Ever. It was vile.
They laughed and told me that the white people had come and gave it a new name and mixed it with pomegranate juice or something and said it has magic powers. And the stupid white people, who know nothing of the jungle, and who had never seen or smelled a Noni, pay good money for a bottle of what they use as fertilizer.
Basically true, altho "noni" is actually a Polynesian name that is found thruout the Poly Pacific region for this tree. It will grow in very salty, rocky and windy locations where little else will thrive. Native Hawaiians did have some use for the fruit in medicine, but it was not amazingly effective.
The fruits do stink, when they ripen. Not appetizing, even as a blender juice drink. Mormonism is the noni MLM of religion, that's good, anagrammy! :)
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Another shout-out to ozpoof. I was in the distribution center next to the Sydney temple around 1991. They were selling Tab Choir CD's. One of them was "God Bless America". Right after the USA had announced tarrifs on wheat that severely hampered Aussie farmers.
Ozpoof, agree with you - aint gonna work over here. Sure, some of the local Morgbots might get their knickers in a twist and all excited and there might be a few articles in the newspapers but this "inspired" move is about 20 years behind the times. It's irrelevant, we've got better things to do....now where's my stubbie?