Missionary Numbers plummet

[Moksha]

All the Church needs to do is extend active missionary status to age 110 and the numbers would skyrocket, for at least a year!

[Shulem]

Wait a year or so and see if the numbers start picking back up again. I wouldn’t get wrapped up in contortions about it. Although it does give some of you folks something else to have a conniption fit about.

Regards,
MG

Not so fast, small man. Now that all those Mormon boys have had a taste of freedom from going to church and submitting themselves to the rigor of Mormon mind control there won't be the kind of submission we've seen over past generations from the youth. The mind control party is over! The youth have experienced freedom and have been able to breathe a little easier without excessive controls.

I'm afraid Mormonism is in a downward spiral. The rising generation is not putting up with the nonsense and garbage the Church foisted on them for generations. Nobody believes the Explanations of the Facsimiles and the Book of Abraham is pure fiction. The youth today know that!

Freedom at last! The Mormon Church is turning into a museum.

Yeah! Victory, victory!!

[Shulem]

[Exactly THE point MG, exactly the point. All kinds of world disasters these days are quite literally unforeseen by anyone.....anyone in any of the states in the United States. Any of them... including the seer state Utah. Utah not only has a blind seer, but blind public, just like the entire rest of the world.

When Rusty looks into his lighted pen it gives him sheer delight and no doubt excites him. Poor Wendy has to put out. When that pen starts to glow it's time for Wendy to do her duty.

[Dr Exiled]

My money is for a continued downward trend. Post-pandemic, there might be a slight rise for a year or so, but I don't expect it to increase that dramatically. Religion in general is losing steam. The CES letter is still out there. Also, as Shulem said, the kids have tasted what it's like not going to church and a significant percentage won't want to return.

[Shulem]

My money is for a continued downward trend. Post-pandemic, there might be a slight rise for a year or so, but I don't expect it to increase that dramatically. Religion in general is losing steam. The CES letter is still out there. Also, as Shulem said, the kids have tasted what it's like not going to church and a significant percentage won't want to return.

Exactly, and especially all those teen boys that have experienced new freedoms in exploring their personal sexuality with themselves are not at all going to want to discuss those matters with their prying bishops. Those days are over! The boys have treated themselves and there is no going back. Church control over the crotch has ended! The boys aren't gonna take it anymore.

Hey, girls too, I guess. They also like to play? Right?

[Doctor Steuss]

To be fair, the pandemic and all of its unforeseen consequences has thrown a monkey wrench into just about everything, including missionary work. My guess is that it has had an impact on other churches and their outreach programs also.

Wait a year or so and see if the numbers start picking back up again. I wouldn’t get wrapped up in contortions about it. Although it does give some of you folks something else to have a conniption fit about.

Regards,
MG

If only there was a worldwide fast, or something, that could take the monkey wrench out.

[Dr Exiled]

My money is for a continued downward trend. Post-pandemic, there might be a slight rise for a year or so, but I don't expect it to increase that dramatically. Religion in general is losing steam. The CES letter is still out there. Also, as Shulem said, the kids have tasted what it's like not going to church and a significant percentage won't want to return.

Exactly, and especially all those teen boys that have experienced new freedoms in exploring their personal sexuality with themselves are not at all going to want to discuss those matters with their prying bishops. Those days are over! The boys have treated themselves and there is no going back. Church control over the crotch has ended! The boys aren't gonna take it anymore.

Hey, girls too, I guess. They also like to play? Right?

[dastardly stem]

Another comment,

Let's let it sink in that the missionary count is roughly half of what these prophets, seers, and revelators expected it to be right now. Really...what happened? How were they so off?

To be fair, the pandemic and all of its unforeseen consequences has thrown a monkey wrench into just about everything, including missionary work. My guess is that it has had an impact on other churches and their outreach programs also.

Wait a year or so and see if the numbers start picking back up again. I wouldn’t get wrapped up in contortions about it. Although it does give some of you folks something else to have a conniption fit about.

Regards,
MG

I'd say the pandemic is an adequate reason to suggest the numbers are down from say the year before...but to say it's a good reason that the numbers are nowhere near what the brethren expected just some 5 or 6 years ago? no....I don't think it works very well. If there is a recovery from the pandemic I'm guessing we'd see a 20 percent increase, but likely not a 100% increase.

[Shulem]

Party time for Mormon boys!

[Shulem]

No more going back. The young men of the Church have let the cat out of the bag and they're free from those horrible questions that prying bishops love to ask in effort to guilt boys about their personal sexuality. Girls too. They have been free to explore themselves and are not going to put up with creepy bishops who will only appear as molesters attempting to get juicy personal information from kids.

It's over! It's over!

THE BOYS ARE FREE. FREE AT LAST.

girls too