LDS church unveils plans to do less door-to-door proselytizing

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From the Salt Lake Tribune:
The LDS Church is moving further into the digital age, unveiling plans to do less door-to-door missionary “tracting” and instead do more social media networking to find potential converts.
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Mormon apostle L. Tom Perry announced that the Utah-based faith’s largest missionary force ever — more than 70,000 strong — will tap online tools to help them connect with and teach their “investigators.”
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“The world has changed,” Perry said. “The nature of missionary work must change if the Lord will accomplish his work.”
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People today are often “less willing to let strangers into their homes,” he said. “Their main points of contact with others is often via the Internet.”
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And so, LDS missionaries are now authorized to use the Web “during the less-productive times of day,” Perry said, “chiefly in the mornings.”
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Mormon chapels, which have typically been locked during the week, will now be open so that missionaries can go there to give tours to interested outsiders and to use Wi-Fi to receive and contact interested investigators
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Seems odd, considering only about 1/3 of the people in the world have internet access.

Also, opening their ward houses for tours? There isn’t really anything to see at a Mormon ward house. I also wonder how they’re going to manage security of their buildings.
 
We watched the program last night. My ex-mormon husband wanted to know how soon he can expect the onslaught of “visitors”. The whole thing sounds strange. Why do the chapels say “visitors welcome” and post no signs for service times? The answer is easy: they want everything investigators see or do to be highly controlled. There is no popping in to visit a mormon chapel.
 
this is not surprising. I predicted this a few years ago.

The more people can research on the internet, the less successful lds missionaries have become. Worse, there have been reports of more and more people being able to confuse the typical young and uninformed lds missionary.
 
Door to door tracking hasnt been effective is YEARS, at least in those areas that do have the internet a big part of the culture
 
Rose74 said:
We watched the program last night. My ex-mormon husband wanted to know how soon he can expect the onslaught of “visitors”. The whole thing sounds strange. Why do the chapels say “visitors welcome” and post no signs for service times? The answer is easy: they want everything investigators see or do to be highly controlled. There is no popping in to visit a mormon chapel.
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Rose, the reason, as far as my Utah community was concerned, for no service times was they rotated throughout the city. You would have one ward at 7 - 10am, one at 11 am to 2, others in the evening and some at night from 8 to 11 am. A former told me how his parents would dress the kids in PJ’s to go to services at the ward late at night.
 
This is also interesting considering they lowered the ages for missionaries, and supposedly opened the floodgates so to speak.

Aren’t they also building a new missionary training center?

Something ain’t right with all of this.

There was another article in the S L Trib about a Christian church doing door to door in SLC.

I think it’s hysterical. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.

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Does this mean we can soon expect many more LDS CAF members? 🙂

It does make sense to me. They want to “go where the people are.” I’m not inclined to want to open the door to strangers anymore either. But I’ll talk to them on the internet. 🙂
 
Joe_5859 said:
Does this mean we can soon expect many more LDS CAF members? 🙂

It does make sense to me. They want to “go where the people are.” I’m not inclined to want to open the door to strangers anymore either. But I’ll talk to them on the internet. 🙂
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Probably so.

The same thing happened a few years ago when one of their “apostles” said they were venturing out into the internet.

As you can see there are many well grounded Catholics and Non Catholic Christians here that give them a run for their money.

Most high tail it out of here when they realize they can’t answer the questions. It’s kind of sad for them really.

I remember talking to one of their missionaries online one time. As soon as I brought up their Journal of Discourses, they couldn’t log off quick enough. They gave some flimsy excuse, and boom “chat ended”.

They are in a Catch 22 situation. They want everyone to know about mormonism, but it is the mormonism they want you to know about, and not the real one.

Once word gets out they can’t deal honestly with this approach, it will backfire on them big time. People will post copies of the conversations, and it will go downhill from there.
 
Rose74 said:
We watched the program last night. My ex-mormon husband wanted to know how soon he can expect the onslaught of “visitors”. The whole thing sounds strange. Why do the chapels say “visitors welcome” and post no signs for service times? The answer is easy: they want everything investigators see or do to be highly controlled. There is no popping in to visit a mormon chapel.
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LDS members are assigned which ward they attend and their attendance is tracked. Having their ward houses open for any visitor to pop in will facilitate getting non-LDS to the right sacrament meeting, in the right ward, at the right time, so they can be tracked with the new missionary iPad application. That’s how I read it. I agree that dropping in anonymously at a LDS sacrament meeting is not easy. It can be done, but it takes some work. Even then, everyone in the ward knows everyone, so a strange face will be noticed.
 
The LDS missionaries always crack me up. It’s always 2 guys dressed like lawyers but riding on bikes, and they always appear younger than 25 but when you get up close they have badges that say “Elder”. I’ve visited Nauvoo, IL before and they do not let people see inside the temple. I wonder what they are hiding. lol

I have had a door to door baptist tell me I am not saved because I do not recall a spiritual “birthday” the way I do my physical birthday. A relative was baptized in a pentecostal church and the pastor demanded he speak in tongues immediately.
 
^I always say that I remember the day I was saved- it was the day I was baptized confirmed, and took my first Holy Communion in the Catholic Church 😃
 
Deus_tecum said:
The LDS missionaries always crack me up. It’s always 2 guys dressed like lawyers but riding on bikes, and they always appear younger than 25 but when you get up close they have badges that say “Elder”. I’ve visited Nauvoo, IL before and they do not let people see inside the temple. I wonder what they are hiding. lol

I have had a door to door baptist tell me I am not saved because I do not recall a spiritual “birthday” the way I do my physical birthday. A relative was baptized in a pentecostal church and the pastor demanded he speak in tongues immediately.
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Temples for the Mormons like the one in Nauvoo is like the Holy of Holies in the old testament. Only the elect may go in, matter a fact you need a temple recommend card to enter. The inside of the Temple isn’t as majestic as the outside. The inside is split up into rooms for teaching, ceremony, etc. This i heard second hand from a non practicing Mormon.
 
The day I became Catholic (2002) was the first day my Soul and Spirit were at rest since I realized the lds church was false in 1989
 
What does the LDS church do with all the billions they collect in tithing each year?

Missionaries pay their own way, and even very poor families are obligated to pay tithing to the LDS corporation if they want a temple recommend.

The LDS church could actually make a difference in the world if they took some of their billions and used it to help the poor. The missionaries could go to poor countries and volunteer their time digging wells, working in health care, caring for the elderly. Instead they spend their money and time looking for coverts who will then give 10% of their income so the LDS corporation can get even richer.

Who gets all the money?
 
Miriam1947 said:
What does the LDS church do with all the billions they collect in tithing each year?

Missionaries pay their own way, and even very poor families are obligated to pay tithing to the LDS corporation if they want a temple recommend.

The LDS church could actually make a difference in the world if they took some of their billions and used it to help the poor. The missionaries could go to poor countries and volunteer their time digging wells, working in health care, caring for the elderly. Instead they spend their money and time looking for coverts who will then give 10% of their income so the LDS corporation can get even richer.

Who gets all the money?
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are you saying that they have enough money to excavate Cumorah?
 
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