Number of serving missionaries continues to plummet....

[_JLHPROF]

Mormon threats of death and destruction don't scare me. I know for a fact that Mormon god is incapable of doing anything and his words are like waves driven on the sea, tossed by the wind. I'm not afraid of Mormon god.

Besides, it would be a great opportunity to test Mormon god and see if he can cause a little lightning to come my way. I dare him! Double dare him!

I think I may enjoy this one day.

I've already volunteered to greet all the atheists as the pass through the veil.

[_Lemmie]

["When the testimony of the Elders ceases to be given, and the Lord says to them, "Come home; I will now preach my own sermons to the nations of the earth," all you now know can scarcely be called a preface to the sermon that will be preached with fire and sword, tempests, earthquakes, hail, rain, thunders and lightnings, and fearful destruction. What matters the destruction of a few railway cars? You will hear of magnificent cities, now idolized by the people, sinking in the earth, entombing the inhabitants. The sea will heave itself beyond its bounds, engulfing mighty cities. Famine will spread over the nations, and nation will rise up against nation, kingdom against kingdom, and states against states, in our own country and in foreign lands. (Brigham Young - Journal of Discourses, Vol. 8, p. 123, July 15, 1860)

Maybe sending fewer out is a precursor to the end.

[my bolding added to last sentence.]

This is somewhat problematic as a PR move, isn't it? If this concept were to be proffered by the LDS church to explain falling missionary numbers then they would have effectively started their own doomsday clock.

I'm sure that the PR follow up would be that the Mormon god doesn't follow the timelines of man, and by golly, when he's good and ready you'll notice the famines and the ocean upheavings and the railway car destructions!

Notwithstanding the enrtertainment value of JLH-Saturday's Warrior-PROF's offerings, it would be interesting to discuss this issue realistically.

[_JLHPROF]

This is somewhat problematic as a PR move, isn't it? If this concept were to be proffered by the LDS church to explain falling missionary numbers then they would have effectively started their own doomsday clock.

I'm sure that the PR follow up would be that the Mormon god doesn't follow the timelines of man, and by golly, when he's good and ready you'll notice the famines and the ocean upheavings and the railway car destructions!

Notwithstanding the enrtertainment value of JLH-Saturday's Warrior-PROF's offerings, it would be interesting to discuss this issue realistically.

I agree with basically everything you've said here.
Which is why the Church will likely never get back into the business of time measurable prophesying.
It won't change events that will occur, but the Church may be taken as much by surprise as anyone.

[_SteelHead]

Right.........


None of the old prophecies came to pass. But those new ones will! You just won't know it at the time.


Worthless kind of prophecy, that.

[_Dr Exiled]

I thought it was inevitable that the numbers would return to where they were before, or somewhere around the prior number, as the older missionaries came home and the transition to younger missionaries was complete. I think the more interesting question is what happens in the future as more and more millennials and the younger generations leave the seer stone church? Secularism is winning the argument, like some stone cut without hands secularism will fill the earth ......

So, I would expect the numbers to continue to plummet until a number below what it was prior to the surge, and then slowly dwindle until only right-wing robot members and their spawn remain. Robot missionaries are the wave of the future. Incidentally, I always thought Romney was too stiff to be real ........