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| | Mormon missionary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | A Mormon missionary is a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS church). | | | Missionaries serving English-speaking missions spend three or four weeks at the MTC and are trained in the use of proselytizing materials, taught expected conduct and study the scriptures. | | | In some cases, the general missionary fund is used to pay for missionaries' expenses, but the church discourages relying on this fund and prefers missionaries to pay their missions themselves (this particular church fund is made up of contributions from church membership and monies are generally not taken from tithing or other Church funds). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_missionary
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| | Problems with the Book of Mormon |
| | According to the Mormon church, authentic Christianity can’t be found in any of the so-called Christian churches—only, of course, in the Mormon church. | | | Mormons claim that to restore the true Church and true gospel to the earth, in 1820 God the Father and Jesus Christ appeared to Joseph Smith in a grove of trees near his home. | | | Mormons teach that, after Jesus ascended into heaven, the apostles taught the true doctrines of Christ and administered his sacred ordinances (roughly the equivalent of Catholic sacraments). |
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http://www.catholic.com/library/problems_with_the_book_of_mormon.asp
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| | WCFCourier.com The Waterloo Cedar-Falls Courier Online! |
| | The missionaries hope door-to-door visits will stir peoples' interest in the Mormon church, and occasionally they get a chance to share their message about the church in a series of four lessons that culminate in a baptism. | | | Missionaries serve wherever the LDS church sends them, and mission applicants have no say in the matter. | | | Missionaries are allowed only two phone calls home per year and must give up television, movies and all music except religious hymns. |
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http://www.wcfcourier.com/articles/2005/07/18/features/lifestyles/159447882d3d648d8625703e00615617.txt
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| | Solving the Mormon Puzzle: Understanding and Evangelizing Mormons |
| | Gospel: (Mormonism) The doctrines and commandments of the Mormon Church. | | | Mormons claim that the stick of Judah is the Bible written by Judah's descendants and the BOM is the stick of Ephraim written by the Nephites who were descendants of Ephraim. | | | Mormons generally believe that the BOM is the perfect companion to the imperfect Bible because the Bible has been corrupted and mistranslated. |
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http://www.ontruth.com/solvingmormonpuzzle.htm
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| | Utah Jazz marketing director chosen to guide Mormon missionaries in Pittsburgh region |
| | According to Mormon teaching, the early Christian church fell into apostasy soon after the 12 apostles died, and Joseph Smith, the first Mormon prophet, was chosen to restore the one true church. | | | Mormons believe that divine revelation continues through the church's president, who is regarded as a prophet. | | | To oversee efforts to bring the Mormon faith to wary Western Pennsylvanians, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has appointed the man who persuaded straight-laced, teetotaling Utah residents to embrace a Mardi Gras-themed pro basketball team called the Jazz. |
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http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05302/597164.stm
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| | Mormon Missionary and Missionaries |
| | Mormon Missionary Mormon Missionary business for the Mormon Church has existed for almost 170 years, from the time of Joseph Smith who started the church in 1830 to the present time. | | | Since so many of these people were living from hand to mouth they quickly accepted the Mormon religion because it meant the possibility for immigration to the United States and a chance to get away from their miserable life in England. | | | This is accomplished by giving them copies of the Book of Mormon, inviting them to church potlucks and services, and calling good prospects “brother” and “sister” etc. |
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http://mormonconspiracy.com/missionary.html
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| | MORMONISM |
| | Mormon teachings say this is the pre-incarnate Jesus Christ, the Lord before he came to earth (The Holy Bible, published by the Mormon Church, at the back is the Bible Dictionary, p. | | | When the Mormon God the Father was progressing to become a God his Son's body and spirit did not exist. | | | Note that the person speaking was the president of the Mormon Church and he was speaking at an official meeting. |
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http://www.cephasministry.com/mormon_mormonism.html
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| | Mormon Missionaries, the Vatican, and Respect |
| | Yep, you got it right, the LDS missionaries passing out LDS literature, trying to convert everyone passing by...I find it hard to believe that the LDS Church authorities can carry on so about other religions passing out their religious literature when they proselytize inside a private building that is adjacent to the pope's home. | | | This just doesn't seem to be the Mormon "style." Instead, The Church of Jesus Christ sends its strapping young men and women out door to door, politely attempting to share their message with the utmost respect for others' religious views. | | | The kind of behavior exhibited at Temple Square and in Main Street Plaza by critics of The Church of Jesus Christ and the behavior described by Harris and Clark by LDS missionaries at the Vatican runs in direct conflict with the core teachings of the gospel as taught by the Church of Jesus Christ. |
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http://www.fairlds.org/apol/misc/misc21.html
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| | Mormons are taught to not look down on other religions. | | | The purpose of missionary work is to PROCLAIM the truth, to baptize, and to confirm the Holy Ghost upon those who are truth seekers. | | | The gospel of Jesus Christ as taught in the Bible and Book of Mormon. |
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http://www.rebeccaives.com/mybookofmormonshelf/Missionaries/Missionaries.htm
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| | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly . PROFILE . God's Army: Mormon Missionaries . March 23, 2001 PBS |
| | These 19 to 21-year-olds have been called to serve as missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) -- the Mormons. | | | But within a few weeks, missionaries have mastered basic conversation -- enough to teach others about Mormon beliefs: That God appeared with Jesus to young Joseph Smith in a forest grove in upstate New York, in 1820, and told him He was restoring the true church, originally organized by Jesus Christ. | | | That is because the LDS church believes every person should hear the Gospel in his or her own language. |
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http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week430/profile.html
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| | Mormon missionaries face days of austerity, rejection |
| | Miami-Dade had 7,535 Mormons in 2003, up from 2,478 in 1990, according to the church, while the the number in Broward has jumped from 3,048 to 4,236. | | | The Book of Mormon -- which is not considered true scripture by Catholic and Protestant biblical scholars -- is a sequel to the New Testament. | | | Mormons say that a Palmyra, N.Y., teen named Joseph Smith founded the church in 1838, shortly after unearthing 10 gold plates he later translated into The Book of Mormon. |
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http://www.rickross.com/reference/mormon/mormon160.html
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| | For Mormon men, the two-year mission is a rite of passage, one that an estimated half of active Latter-day Saints accept on their 19th birthday, according to Jan Shipps, author of "Sojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years Among the Mormons" (University of Illinois Press, 2000) and the leading non-Mormon scholar of the church. | | | A token sermon: Manhattan Mormon missionaries -!-!- By Reid J. Epstein -!-!- 2002-02-14 -!-!- The Mormon message of family values has made it one of the world's fastest-growing religions. | | | Riding the subways on the West Side of Manhattan, the missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in this decidedly un-Mormon city preach their gospel, New York City Transit rules be damned. |
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http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/studentwork/cns/2002-02-22/syndication/epstein-mormons.txt
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| | How do we say 'no thanks?' to the Mormon Missionaries |
| | The Book of Mormon is more window dressing than informational about the church. | | | Tell them that you don’t want anything to do with a church that still believes in polygamy and is sealing men to more then one woman (granted their first wife has passed on) in their afterlife. | | | Remember, the young missionaries are probably good kids, but they have been brainwashed by experts (Mormon Church), The missionaries mean well, but they too are deceived. |
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http://www.exmormon.org/mormon/mormon151.htm
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| | What the Mormon Missionaries Don't Tell You |
| | These nice, young, clean-cut men are serving a two-year stint of proselytizing; in bringing the Mormon gospel to prospective members for their church. | | | This book is devoted to disclosing the complete story of Mormonism -- the things the missionaries will not tell you -- and the reasons why. | | | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has over 60,000 full-time missionaries throughout the world at any given time. |
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http://geraldpaul.fws1.com
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| | Mormon Studies: The premier resource guide for material on Mormonism |
| | The Mormon History Association is an independent non-profit organization dedicated to the study and understanding of all aspects of Mormon history. | | | The mission of the Council on the Study of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is to promote the development of a graduate program in Mormon Studies at Claremont Graduate University’s School of Religion that reflects both academic rigor and scholarly integrity while maintaining sensitivity to the LDS community. | | | The Mormon Studies Program “seeks to understand religion itself through a particularly relevant example and to provide further understanding of what it means to be religious beings. |
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http://mormonstudies.byu.edu
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| | Mormon Missionaries and Deaths in the Family |
| | Many mormons don't stand up to outrageous abuse, but on the other hand, more educated internet-literate mormons are finding sites like this, and learning to stand up to the abuse and tell LDS leaders where they can stick their dumb rules and regulations. | | | The abusive Mormon mission president then "dictated" a phony letter for the Father to write to his missionary daughter essentially saying that they (the parents) did not want her to come home under any circumstances. | | | The Mormon Church is very insensitive to the needs of families, despite its public relations campaign. |
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http://www.exmormon.org/mormon/mormon039.htm?FACTNet
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| | Daily Herald - Mormon missionaries take to streets to spread faith |
| | Both missionaries talk to her about some principles of the faith. | | | In a bit of turnabout, during door-to-door outreach in Somerville later in the day, the Mormons knock on the door of a Jehovah's Witness, who gives them literature from her faith. | | | Christensen and Johnson are two of about 140 missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Massachusetts. |
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http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/162902/4
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| | The Mormon Church |
| | Mormonism is global, but is it a 'world religion'? | | | The Mormon Church is based upon the claims of its | | | Former Mormon bishop explains the collapse of his faith |
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http://www.rickross.com/groups/mormon.html
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| | The Winchester Star |
| | Male missionaries will no longer answer to their first name, but instead are called “elder,” which means “minister” in the Mormon Church. | | | In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the term signifies that a young Mormon has chosen to leave his or her home and family to become a missionary. | | | At one time, all Mormon missionaries’ traveled by bicycle, but now most go to locations in automobiles provided by the church. |
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http://www.winchesterstar.com/TheWinchesterStar/050228/Area_hispanics.asp
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| | Patrick Madrid |
| | How could God testify to you that the Mormon Church is the one true Church, but to me that the Catholic Church is? That doesn't make any sense, but it does show the weakness of a personal testimony as the proof of a religion. | | | One of them, probably the more senior missionary, shook my hand and informed me that they were representatives of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and that my neighbor had suggested they visit me and answer any questions I might have about the Book of Mormon. | | | Then, I said, we could assume the reverse, that the Mormons were right and my prayers were heard by their God. |
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http://www.ewtn.com/library/answers/mormon3.htm
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| | Mormon Missionaries |
| | Going on a mission is voluntary in the sense that keeping any of the church's commandments is voluntary, but the social pressure that the church and its culture place on the kids to fulfill this particular obligation is intense. | | | The core rules are in the infamous Missionary Handbook, commonly known as the "White Bible". | | | The links on this page are my attempt to give a little insight into the lives of the Mormon missionaries. |
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http://www.lds4u.com/Missionaries/missionaries.htm
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| | Berean Christian Ministries-Mormon Studies |
| | Institute for Religion - Mormons in Transition-Great site on the errors in Mormonism. | | | 2) The Attributes of God as taught by the Mormon Church and the Bible. | | | 11) The Jesus Christ of the Mormon Church - Is He The Christ Of The Bible? |
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http://www.bcmmin.org
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| | WHAT THE MORMON MISSIONARIES WON'T TELL YOU |
| | Personal salvation or exaltation to the highest form of Mormon heaven comes only by accepting Joseph Smith as a prophet of god and by following the laws of the LDS church. | | | Regarding the word "scriptures," the Christian thinks of the Holy Bible while the Mormon could be thinking of not only the Bible but the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants and Pearl of Great Price as well. | | | For example, in the Book of Mormon, God called David and Solomon's act of polygamy an abomination, whereas in the Doctrine and Covenants He claims to justify it. |
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http://www.contenderministries.org/mormonism/missionaries.php
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| | Wired News: No Email for Mormon Missionaries |
| | The Mormon Church announced the ban on email last month in a letter to its 50,000 missionaries and their supervisors. | | | Six days a week, Mormon missionaries walk the streets and knock on doors, meeting or calling on strangers to explain the Mormon world view and to recruit new church members. | | | "It can be distracting to missionaries who we're asking to really focus on their work during that time period," explained church public affairs spokesman Dale Bills. |
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http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,17636,00.html
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| | CNN - Kidnappers release Mormon missionaries - March 22, 1998 |
| | MOSCOW (CNN) -- Two young Mormon missionaries kidnapped in southern Russia earlier this week have been released unharmed, a church spokesman said Sunday. | | | Don Jarvis, Moscow mission director for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, told CNN that the abductors eventually "gave up on collecting the ransom," drove the two missionaries out into the countryside and dropped them off Sunday. | | | Note: Pages will open in a new browser window |
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http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9803/22/mormons.released
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| | CNN - 2 Mormon missionaries kidnapped in Russia - March 19, 1998 |
| | To protect other missionaries, neither the church, also known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, nor the State Department has revealed other details. | | | The Utah-based church says it has taken steps to protect other missionaries overseas. | | | WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Two American missionaries from the Mormon Church have been abducted in Russia, a State Department official said Thursday. |
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http://www.cnn.com/US/9803/19/briefs.pm/russia.mormon.kidnap
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| | Mormons or members Church Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints Below | | | Mormon tells us that group from Israel came the.lifeway lwc article main page A D M D.html LDS prophecies | | | Mormon masturbation.html Index Gopher Library Religion DIR Parent |
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http://mormon.naturystki.elk.pl
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| | Adherents.com |
| | 20,000 Waldenses in the Piedmont in 1850 when Mormon missionaries learned about them. | | | Reprint; originally published as Abingdon Dictionary of Living Religions, 1981; pg. | | | "LDS Prospects in Italy for the Twenty-first Century " in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought (Spring 1996); pg. |
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http://www.adherents.com/Na/Na_662.html
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| | LDS Mission Network - Welcome |
| | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints currently operates over 330 missions in 162 nations, where more than 52,000 missionaries, colloquially known as "Mormon missionaries", are currently serving. | | | Neither this site nor any mission alumni page listed on our index has any legal relation to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or its associated entities. | | | The most comprehensive index of LDS missionary alumni web sites since 1996. |
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http://www.mission.net
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| | Guidelines for Moving Abroad |
| | Now check bulletin boards at the post office
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and then do like the encyclopedia sales and Mormon missionaries do. | | | Many really good rentals will never be advertised except for a small sign on a building or door.
I know that your Spanish is not that good and chances are the person who answers the phone won’t be proficient in English either. |
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http://www.thebigbluemarble.com/tip17.html?PHPSESSID=6ee5c8f385a3aa5e8ecffdb...
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| | Two Mormon missionaries shot - Metropolitan - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper |
| | CHESAPEAKE, Va. (AP) -- Police were looking into whether two Mormon missionaries who had been going door to door were shot because they had witnessed a crime and said the men were not victims of a hate crime, a police spokeswoman said yesterday. | | | Police declined to identify the second man, who remained hospitalized, but church spokesmen Dale Bills and Michael Purdy said he is Joshua Heidbrink of Greeley, Colo. Police said he is 19. | | | The gunman then turned and fired at the missionaries, he said. |
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http://washingtontimes.com/metro/20060103-105100-5958r.htm
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