Missions, Numbers, and Lying
On a thread last year at BCC entitled Coming Clean, Mark Brown daringly confessed to the entire Bloggernacle that he invented his mission numbers reports. His bold revelation transported me straight...
View ArticleHow do we offer pastoral care?
One of the overarching themes that I see reiterated throughout the bloggernacle – or perhaps, one of the pervasive subtexts – is that LDS people are in need of pastoral care. They seek a space to voice...
View ArticleMissionaries and Mental Health
In the middle of my mission, I had two very sick companions one after the other. With both companions, their health was so bad that we slowly spent more and more time in the apartment until they were...
View ArticleOn Mission Hierarchy, Gender, and Organizational Communication
In support of RAH’s Sister Missionary Leadership Project over at fMh, here’s a post about my mission originally published at Both Sides Now in July of last year. In our mission we had APs and...
View ArticleTop Ten Reasons I’m Grateful for My Mission: 2
You can find the earlier post in this series here. 2) The Mother’s Day Lesson My last companion was relatively new to her mission. The child of a recently widowed mother with several teenagers at home,...
View ArticleTop Ten Reasons I’m Grateful for My Mission: 3
You can find the earlier posts in this series here and here. 3) The Interviews Every six weeks on my mission, the missionaries would have a one-on-one interview with the Mission President. Interviews...
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From the archives: Tracting: Is It Worth Doing?
In light of last week’s “Hastening the Work of Salvation” broadcast and the reduced emphasis on tracting it suggests, this post from 2008 might be relevant again. You can read the original post and...
View ArticleThe Problem of Women and Church Courts
CW: discussion of violence and sexual assault Midway through my mission, I was transferred into an area and took over teaching the new member discussions to a recent convert, a young single mother with...
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What fraction of missionaries are sisters?
It has been five years since President Monson announced the change in minimum ages at which missionaries can serve. It’s clear that much of the increase in the number of missionaries that followed that...
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I Hope They Don’t Call Me on a Mission
I have an 18-year-old son who recently started his mission. He’s not going anywhere, though; he’s doing a service mission. He lives at home, and he works every weekday (and occasional Saturdays) at a...
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