LDS missionary applications jump 471 percent

Published: Monday, Oct. 22 2012 8:17 p.m. MDT

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Young Mormons are applying to go on missions at more than five times the typical rate since the LDS Church lowered the ages when they can serve. Women are more than half of those who have turned in their paperwork.

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Oatmeal

Woods Cross, UT

The future female leaders in the Church will now overwhelmingly have had a mission experience. Wonderful!

They will marry their equals, making for stronger marriages.
They will speak with more knowledge of the outside world, and with More..

10:48 p.m. Oct. 22, 2012
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Go Utes!

Springville, UT

This is wonderful! My girlfriend left on a mission almost a year ago and i am so grateful that she did! She is far more mature, more enlightened, more committed to the things she does. this will only be a good thing for the world. LDS women have so More..

6:19 a.m. Oct. 23, 2012
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raybies

Layton, UT

I think one of the greatest changes to the program is the age women can serve in fulltime missions. In the past, there was something of a stigma (not that I'm saying it was right, but it existed) that if a young woman served a fulltime mission More..

7:02 a.m. Oct. 23, 2012
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