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SALT LAKE CITY – Male Mormon proselytizers, known as "elders," who toil to find converts in scorching, humid regions like Kenya, Indonesia, and Thailand will no longer be required to bring a ...
A man who allegedly approached two male Mormon missionaries and threatened them with a knife is being held in the Bannock County Jail. Pocatello Police Department spokesman Lt. Ian Nelson tells ...
Mormon male missionaries, long recognizable worldwide for their dark suits, white shirts, neckties and black name tags can now ditch suit jackets while proselytizing in hot climates, the Utah-based… ...
In the Millennial generation, for example, 35% of female missionaries returned early, compared to 29% of male missionaries. This surprised me, because on nearly every measure of belief and ...
About 90 percent of the young people in the Mormon Church mission program are male. ... Mormon missionaries live structured days that begin at 6:30 a.m. with two hours of Bible study and reading.
Poring over archived Mormon missionary blogs, Kjerste Christensen seemingly stumbled on tales of murder, accelerated aging, pending deaths, pregnancy and unexpected parenthood. Well, not really ...
I’ve been hearing a good deal lately about early return missionaries — Mormon young adults who head out on their mission, only to come home before their assignment (two years for men and 18 ...
While walking the streets of West Baltimore recently, young Brigham Colton, a Mormon missionary, found himself standing between two men who were completing a sidewalk drug deal. L Then he had the f… ...
Like all Mormon missionaries, ... Lightweight, inexpensive fixed-gear single-speeds are currently popular with the male missionaries. “The elders are obsessed with their fixies,” McCrary says.
SALT LAKE CITY — A Las Vegas man who devised a calendar that features shirtless Mormon missionaries is facing a disciplinary hearing and possible excommunication because of the project. A ...
TVER, Russia -- When American Ian Crookston was assigned to Russia as a Mormon missionary in 2009, the 19-year-old knew next to nothing about the country. Nevertheless, putting his undergraduate ...