Fence Sitter wrote:While it may be easier to convince 18 year olds to go on missions than a 19 year old, I believe they are going to find they are going to have more problems with Elders who have had a year less to mature. What is it they weren't doing before to prepare them that they can do now? I know for myself that year meant the difference in making it through the first few difficult months on a foreign mission.
I think while they may raise their raw numbers they are also going to increase the numbers of missionaries that come home early.
I got over a lot of homesickness by leaving home for a year before my foreign mission. The culture shock of leaving my familiar redneck home and being placed in Latin America was nearly too much for me to handle alone. Homesickness would have pushed me over the edge.
But as I pointed out in the other thread I wish it were this way back in the 90s. What good was it for an aspiring physicist/engineer to plough through the toughest calculus I would ever face only to run into a rude 2 year interruption of my studies that would force me to do what seemed like starting over again. Dude how do you think this will be better or worse for young Mormons who love math and science and want to make a career out of it.
And when the confederates saw Jackson standing fearless as a stone wall the army of Northern Virginia took courage and drove the federal army off their land.
sock puppet wrote:I wonder if the 18 year old boy that chooses not to go on a mission (then), but instead go to college will choose a non-Church school rather than a BYU. Afterall, to be at BYU now before age 20 will have an astigma to it.
I think so for sure, but isn't that sort of what the Church wants. They don't want to be in the business of higher education. What percentage of the Churchs youth have the option of BYU anyway? I'm not sure how attracted BYU girls are to younger impecunious 19 year olds. Perhaps the current age policy on sisters was causing a loss of sisters as well.
And when the confederates saw Jackson standing fearless as a stone wall the army of Northern Virginia took courage and drove the federal army off their land.
ajax18 wrote: What good was it for an aspiring physicist/engineer to plough through the toughest calculus I would ever face only to run into a rude 2 year interruption of my studies that would force me to do what seemed like starting over again.
That's exactly what happened to me. Rather than relearn calculus I became a biologist.
"And yet another little spot is smoothed out of the echo chamber wall..." Bond
bcspace wrote:My son recently went out. He was just as prepared at 18 as he is now.
So he didn't learn anything of value in the year between being 18 and 19? WOW
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