How would you reform the LDS mission program?

[_Molok]

I would drop the uniform. I always felt like Jules Winfield and Vincent Vega out for a hit job when I went tracting.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

[_lostindc]

There are so many ways to reform the mission program:

1. Stop guilting members into serving missions, especially 19 year olds.
2. Stop forcing members to dig into life savings to pay for service missions and instead use City Creek Mall money to help these members reach their goals.
3. Stop knocking on doors, rarely do folks from western nations become active members via this method.
4. Let 19 year olds choose their own dress, curfew, etc. instead of treating them like juvenile delinquents. How embarrassing the Church has to put kids in a uniform in order to conform to 1930 fashions.
5. Quit running the mission program like Amway or Noni Juice.

[_Drifting]

Make all missions service missions.

Agree 100%

And pay for them out of the same pot that GA's draw their salaries from.

[_Shulem]

I'm not going to help the church. Watch them crumble to the dust. Just watch the church suffer and their numbers break away. They want more than anything to be accepted into the jesus-club, but they aren't ever going to be accepted. Mormons aren't Christians. They are prophet worshippers. Jesus is just a name they toss around in order to look good. Members of the church don't really give a rat's ass about Jesus or telling the truth (Facsimile No. 3). It's all about serving their prophet like the queen in a hive. They huddle around that fat-cat like he is their god. What a joke! And fat-cat Tommy Monson has never prophesied about anything. Someone needs to teach him how to be a prophet.

Paul O

[_Shulem]

Members of the church need to bear their testimonies more often. Become like little children in the kingdom of jezzus.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVEVDgVmBtM

Paul O

[_zeezrom]

Missions in areas where the success rate is small are not considered to be a waste of time for LDS.

1. Missions train kids
2. An effort is better than no effort - we have to tell our Eternal Judge that at least we tried.

[_Dr. Shades]

Assuming I still believed in the church, I would drop the requirement for males to serve and drop the stigma against females serving.

I would allow sister missionaries to be district leaders, zone leaders, and assistants to the president.

I would allow elders to stop females on the street or otherwise teach females and sisters to stop males on the street or otherwise teach males.

[_MsJack]

Q: How would I reform the LDS mission program?
A: I would make it more like Protestant mission programs.

I started to make a list, but I realized that everything on my list just moved Mormon missions closer to Protestant missions. So, yeah. I think Protestants do missions better. Big surprise.

But as Shades has touched on: that the church discourages women from serving is especially pointless and self-destructive. When you have able-bodied young people who want to spread your religion, let them spread your religion. Sex shouldn't matter.

[_Fionn]

Extend the age limits to college age kids, males and females. Treat it like service semesters and allow them to serve a few mini missions from, say, ages 18 to 24, instead of having to fulfill the mission within a specific time frame.

And make it more service oriented.

[_sock puppet]

I looked up a state party's precinct leader duties because one of my neighbors (a real horse's pa-toot) is running for leader of our precinct and his signs are littering our neighborhood. Here's what I found--

As a Precinct leader, the party is counting on you to do the following:
1. Represent your precinct on the County Central Committee.
2. Represent your precinct on the Legislative District Committee.
3. Have a plan for building the [Democrat][Republican] Party in your precinct (make a timetable and use it to get things done on schedule).
4. Recruit and train volunteers.
5. Organize your precinct by blocks or units, using maps and spreadsheets or index card files.
6. Canvass your precinct to get a true political picture.
7. Conduct a voter registration drive.
8. Distribute information on [Democrat][Republican] candidates, election procedures and laws.
9. Turn out every possible [Democrat][Republican] vote on election day.

It dawned on me that being a precinct leader would be like it was on my Mormon mission. Uuggghh.

All I can say now is that I hope this weird neighbor wins. It's just what he deserves.

"Oyster, Oysters, Rah, Rah, Rah!"--The Coach Art Turf Show (radio spoof in the 70s)