Posted by:
matt
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Date: January 26, 2011 04:24PM
bender Wrote:
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> No new U.S. missionaries are entering Brazil due
> to visa problems. So it's left for Brazilian
> missionaries to pick up the slack. No problem,
> right? After all the Mormon church brags about
> having more than 1 million members, and hundreds
> of stakes in Brazil. Getting a few thousand
> missionaries out of there should be a piece of
> cake.
>
> Intead the missionary effort there is fading away.
> The Brazilian MTC, built to hold 700, currently
> has only 60 missionaries. Many branches that
> depend on missionaries for leadership are in
> danger of closing. And in a desperate effort to
> get more Brazilians to go on missions, The church
> lowered the mission age to 18 there. It's not
> looking so good for the country with the second
> biggest church presence after the U.S. Hmmmm,
> could it be that most of the rapid church growth
> there is just on paper?
>
> Here's a link from the Trib with the story
>
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/home/51121821-76/braz> il-missionaries-lds-visa.html.csp#
Was that rapid or rabid growth? ;o))