From a missionary blog. This guy is a mega-fanatic missionary serving in the Italy Rome Mission. This is from his weekly update:

"We also taught a beautiful Indian family twice this week. We met them using the American football as a finding technique in a park. One pass and people come running up and you can teach them how to throw. Then they ask why we are here, we teach them the Restoration, next thing you know, God helps them come to church for a tour and a wonderful member present lesson. It was amazing to see how prepared their boys were. They were like sponges. They soaked up absolutely everything. [Child] especially loves the story of Joseph Smith. It was a sweet family with sweet faith."

Sounds like a nice unsuspecting family. I hope they'll just walk away.

Sounds like a 'Bait and Switch' to me.

Exactly what I was thinking...

After this morning's earthquake there may not be a lot of proselyting going on for a while!

Seriously folks. If your message is really about God a bait and switch is not needed.

Bait and switch is such a creepy side show tactic, but of course

the church is a creepy side show.

Using deception to teach truth?

Really?

Link to the blog?

I don't know if it is allowed here to post the link. Can I?

Hopefully, the family will be happier if they drop the mormon football.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/24/2016 02:39PM by messygoop.

First there were baseball baptisms, and now football baptisms.
Guess they didn't learn anything from the other sport...

Poor mishies. I detest that they are out there with all the pressures to fulfill their cult duties. So wrong on so many levels for them to have been groomed and pushed into thinking that this is the end-all and be-all as to what they must be doing at
a mere 18!!!! years of age. They are the pawns in a congame.

Roarrrrr....

presleynfactsrock Wrote:
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> Poor mishies. I detest that they are out there
> with all the pressures to fulfill their cult
> duties. So wrong on so many levels for them to
> have been groomed and pushed into thinking that
> this is the end-all and be-all as to what they
> must be doing at
> a mere 18!!!! years of age. They are the pawns in
> a congame.
>
> Roarrrrr....



It's a huge red flag that TSCC grooms and coerces defenseless minors for the job. These kids are exploited like slaves. TSCC, their families, friends, and their PARENTS tell them that they are "obligated" to "serve." "Volunteers" my left foot. The Feds need to step in and stop this - human trafficking. The strict work schedule and hours tell the whole story. These kids DO NOT have a choice that is visible to them. If they refuse, consequences may be life-long. All for the pharoh's pyramid scheme that never pays off. Raising the age to 25 at which one may "volunteer" - oh, that would chap religious-freedom and military butts. What college grad would choose servitude over employment?

These kids are American citizens whose human and civil rights are being violated by older adults, via a demonstrably false religion, that checks nearly every tick mark in a cult checklist. WHO protects them?

My TBM wife has asked me recently whether the missionaries who converted her had lied. She doesn't think so because they seemed so sincere.

I said that it was likely they were sincerely repeating the lies that they were told growing up in the church.

They are required to repeat "milk before meat," which means they withhold information from anyone who isn't fully indoctrinated in an attempt to deceive them and draw them ever deeper into the system. They use different words and messages for outsiders than with each other because their religion requires them to be deceitful and manipulative.

Typical. Mormons will use anything to dupe people into the church....

Too bad the Pokémon Go craze is fading, otherwise they would be doing that too and finding unsuspecting players. Hmmm maybe I should keep quiet about this in case some lurking mishies try it.

If someone can get religion and find Gawd because they wanted to learn how to throw a spiral pass, it only proves that the church is true, after all.

They loved the Joseph Smith story?

There are soooo many...

You are great, guys, thanks for the comments!

Missionaries dont have choice and it appears that they do best they can, albeit sort of spiritual military bootcamp....the message is discipline and buck up...different culture that smacks of cultism due to newness and need to acquire funds and members...good organization and sincere people...just Christian-other.

He is easy on the eyes, so that's got to take care of their deceptive techniques being used on an immigrant family who must be feeling at least some desire to speak to people, probably in English given that it's one of the major linguae francae of their homeland. Right?

I can say with absolute certainty that a large part of our appeal on my mission in France to our African investigators (Nigerian, Ghana, and Cameroon) was having someone, anyone to speak English with. The religious aspects of it... not so much.

Tyson

P.S. Oh, and I just Googled what you copied above. That's how I found the young elder from Minnesota whose ancestor Giuseppe came from Palermo. :)

Exactly, Tyson, that's the guy. I met a James Toronto in Frankfurt years ago, a Professor at BYU who is descendant of that Giuseppe Taranto. I suppose they are all relatives, maybe this missionary is a grandson of the Prof.?!