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Prepare Ye The Way of the Lord has an interesting run through of who served a mission in the First Presidency and Quorum of Twelve Apostles.
It seems that the less senior apostles are more likely to have served as full-time missionaries. The older apostles were not full-time missionaries probably because there wasn’t as much emphasis back then and of other intervening circumstances (war).
The Des News confirms that U.S. missionaries are no longer being sent to Russia due to visa problems.
BYU NewsNet: LDS Church Stops Russian Mission Calls
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has stopped calling missionaries from North America to serve in missions in Russia, officials at the church headquarters in Salt Lake City said.
“The missions are fully staffed and the work is going forward,” church spokesman Rob Howell said. “They have more missionaries than they can use.”
Howell would neither confirm nor deny the decision was influenced by the difficulty of obtaining and renewing visas for North American missionaries.
Somewhat related, my local Maryland elders told me (so take it for what it’s worth) that the Church was also making significant cutbacks in new missionaries being sent to the U.S. East Coast, sending more to the West where there is greater success.
I don’t think the East Coast is as uncooperative as the former Soviet block, but maybe not by that much.
UPDATE: Strange, but as Juvenille Instructor and BCC have noticed, the article has now been pulled. Google cache has it here.
How are “law and order” conservatives to make sense of the Church’s recent statements on illegal immigrants? The Church’s call last month for “compassion” has been understood as a call for leniency on illegal immigrants, at least in Utah.
This has confused some members. (Some of our brothers and sisters who are accustomed to being on the other side of the Church on politically social issues are probably entitled to feeling a little schadenfreude right now).
Most questions about the Church’s position center on the need to uphold the laws of the land. However, Elder Marlin K. Jensen has explained that the Church’s attitude towards immigrants is not a matter of legality.
“The church’s view of someone in undocumented status is akin, in a way, to a civil trespass,” said Elder Marlin K. Jensen of the Seventy, relating it to coming onto someone’s property uninvited. “There is nothing inherent or wrong about that status.”
Regardless of criminal status, the established presence of some 12 - 20 million people make the issue of simple law enforcement quite complicated. With so many illegal immigrants joining the Church (a stake leader in the DC area estimated that more than 70% of members in our local Spanish-speaking units are undocumented - and that’s not mentioning non-Hispanic immigrants in our English units), what is the Church to do?
Romney opponents posing as missionaries in Virginia? I don’t know. Sounds like this lady is in the DC South Mission. I’m in the DC North Mission, and as annoying as it may be, it’s not unheard of to go tracting at 7:30 pm.
But if they weren’t “good looking enough to be Mormons,” well I guess that rules them out.
The title sounds like an anti- site, at first glance it looks like it may be a NSFW site, but no, it’s a beefcake calendar for ostensibly returned missionaries. I deferred comment and its received notice elsewhere, but after seeing its press release (safe link) I couldn’t help but want to share in the laughter:
. . . Las Vegas-based [natch] Mormons Exposed was created to encourage different groups of people to look beyond the stereotypes of race, religion and political affiliation to achieve a greater understanding of one another.
I’m sure there are many who will appreciate their continuing service to society.
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