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So many critics, on this forum and others I have read, have made so much noise about how the LDS Church is deficient and how it should improve, that I began thinking about what I would do to change the LDS Church if I had the power to do that. I was even thinking about a fictional book I could write, about the LDS Church making those changes in future decades. I actually went into quite a bit of detail as to how I would write that book, and which changes the postulated future LDS Church would make. And then General Conference 2012 occurs, and one of those changes actually got made. Actually, my book would have seen the age a woman could go on a mission go down to 20, only one year older than the age a man had to be to go on a mission. The actual change, of course, was to reduce the age a man had to be to go on a mission to 18, and the age a woman had to be to 19.

After seeing a change like this actually happen in the LDS Church, what can I do but feel inspired?

KevinSim wrote:So many critics, on this forum and others I have read, have made so much noise about how the LDS Church is deficient and how it should improve, that I began thinking about what I would do to change the LDS Church if I had the power to do that. I was even thinking about a fictional book I could write, about the LDS Church making those changes in future decades. I actually went into quite a bit of detail as to how I would write that book, and which changes the postulated future LDS Church would make. And then General Conference 2012 occurs, and one of those changes actually got made. Actually, my book would have seen the age a woman could go on a mission go down to 20, only one year older than the age a man had to be to go on a mission. The actual change, of course, was to reduce the age a man had to be to go on a mission to 18, and the age a woman had to be to 19.

After seeing a change like this actually happen in the LDS Church, what can I do but feel inspired?

Interesting, Kevin. You realized that there was youth leakage going on from time of high school graduation until mission age eligibility. Just like TSM did.

Cool, KevinSim.

After seeing a change like this actually happen in the LDS Church, what can I do but feel inspired?

Knowing you had a whole book's worth of changes in mind, I can't help but think it's more like a lucky guess.

bcspace wrote:

After seeing a change like this actually happen in the LDS Church, what can I do but feel inspired?

Knowing you had a whole book's worth of changes in mind, I can't help but think it's more like a lucky guess.

Yeah, it was rather lucky TSM scored one that was in Kevin's book without even having read it.

What if one of the ways you want them to change is to go back in time and be honest?

zeezrom wrote:What if one of the ways you want them to change is to go back in time and be honest?

Ha Ha!

+1000

KevinSim wrote:So many critics, on this forum and others I have read, have made so much noise about how the LDS Church is deficient and how it should improve, that I began thinking about what I would do to change the LDS Church if I had the power to do that. I was even thinking about a fictional book I could write, about the LDS Church making those changes in future decades. I actually went into quite a bit of detail as to how I would write that book, and which changes the postulated future LDS Church would make. And then General Conference 2012 occurs, and one of those changes actually got made. Actually, my book would have seen the age a woman could go on a mission go down to 20, only one year older than the age a man had to be to go on a mission. The actual change, of course, was to reduce the age a man had to be to go on a mission to 18, and the age a woman had to be to 19.

After seeing a change like this actually happen in the LDS Church, what can I do but feel inspired?

I'd never bother to give a second thought as to how I would change the church. The church is locked into its falsehoods so deeply that any meaningful change would destroy it. The change in missionary age appears to me to be nothing but desperation in action, but I'm glad you are so pleased with it.

KevinSim wrote:So many critics, on this forum and others I have read, have made so much noise about how the LDS Church is deficient and how it should improve, that I began thinking about what I would do to change the LDS Church if I had the power to do that. I was even thinking about a fictional book I could write, about the LDS Church making those changes in future decades. I actually went into quite a bit of detail as to how I would write that book, and which changes the postulated future LDS Church would make. And then General Conference 2012 occurs, and one of those changes actually got made. Actually, my book would have seen the age a woman could go on a mission go down to 20, only one year older than the age a man had to be to go on a mission. The actual change, of course, was to reduce the age a man had to be to go on a mission to 18, and the age a woman had to be to 19.

After seeing a change like this actually happen in the LDS Church, what can I do but feel inspired?

Why would not allow men and women to serve a mission from the same age?

TSM, reaffirming Sim's confirmation bias with revelations that took no revelation since 2012.