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Related: About this forumMormons to use technology in missionary work
The common image of Mormon missionaries has long been two young men wearing white shirts and ties walking through neighborhoods, knocking door-to-door [font color=green](they come to my house in Brenham about once a month)[/font].
But in a few years, that image may be replaced by one of young Mormons sitting with an iPad, typing messages on Facebook.
Recognizing the world has changed, leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints leaders announced Sunday night that missionaries will do less door-to-door proselytizing, and instead, use the Internet to recruit new church members.
The strategy shift reflects the growing importance of social media and people's preference to connect over sites such as Facebook rather than opening their homes to strangers, church leaders said.
More at http://www.theeagle.com/news/nation/article_b957b1a8-56d0-5e69-958c-5f199e625e5d.html .
[font color=green]Mitt Romney should be grateful that the Internet wasn't around when he was a missionary. There wouldn't have been a need to convert the Catholics in France over to the LDS and he wouldn't have received that draft deferment either.[/font]
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,947 posts)I'd rather not see a Mormon drone hovering over my house, dropping leaflets.
TexasTowelie
(112,619 posts)Now you have me skeered!
longship
(40,416 posts)Nefarious things are afoot... er, ahead, (so to speak):
dimbear
(6,271 posts)TxDemChem
(1,918 posts)If they connect via social media to Internet savvy potential converts, they set themselves up for instant fact checking. I say go ahead LDS!