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Just wonndering what people’s thoughts are on this…. I am guessing it is either inspiration or desperation
inspiration:
In the current economy youth are struggling to get into school, etc and when they do it is frequently not a church school as it is getting tough to get in. This allows kids to just go on their missions and then when they return they can ‘t start the rest of their life. This also helps them avoid the trouble that bored teenagers get in to.
Desperation
Rumor has it kids are leaving in droves. I have not seen the statistics so this is a guess for discussion purposes. Also, church missionary pool could be running short. Another reason could be that, according to claims i have heard in some Bloggernacle (my first time using that word in a sentence…woohoo!) discussions the church membership is no longer growing….so we need to increase new members to avoid showing negative growth.
All of my thoughts are without backup documentation…..just a discussion topic. Hopefully we can keep it civil
:clap: PS: i must admit that my first reaction to the announcement was leaning morre towards thinking this was a more a move of desperation, not inspiration. I credit that with my inherantly cynical nature. :eh: desperation…but…I’m cynical as well….very cynical. Sent from my SCH-I500 using Tapatalk 2
There’s another recent thread about it. I will bump that one up so you can read and comment in that thread. Tnx Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using Tapatalk 2
Not sure about lowering the age for women, for various reasons… By the way, how many people abandon their missions?
I don’t think many quit….though some Mission Presidents get “send ’em home!” happy. My Mission Pressident in Los Angelas used to like to send home Elders a few weeks early (with an honroable release) for things like sneaking to DisneyLand (like 5-10 miles outside the mission) or going to a laser light show at Griffith observatory (in the mission). It was his way to give them a life long guilt complex without upsetting the parents .
Basically the elder would know they were sent home early and could live with that their whole life but could easily tell their family “it just worked out better from a travel perspective”
Of course if they went to disneyland early in their mission and then were “overcome by remorse” and confessed to the president, naming the names of everyone else who went, they were likely to be a zone leader.
Lets just say my mission is where my cynicism began
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