Missionary things

[Bremguy]

Yesterday evening, around 9 in the evening, I had to help my son jump start his car at the Safeway parking lot.

I seen the missionaries out and about tracting or ending their day. What kind of organization would let 2 young guys that age wander around at that time of night ? I certainly would not allow that to happen. What sort of Mission President does that? They should be home, relaxing, just being young men. having some fun. I feel sorry for them. I know myself, I hate when people bother me after 8 in the evening, from then on, is time for me and my wife, and if family is here.

I wish I could do something about that. It just makes my blood boil, knowing there is a MP, living off the church dime while sending out young people late on Sundays. I can imagine that the time is largely wasted and only causes a few people to dislike the church.

[mooseman]

I thought they still had a curfew before then? When did they change it?

[Phil Lurkerman]

I thought they still had a curfew before then? When did they change it?

It's been 30 years, but I seem to recall 9:00 or 9:30 as the time we were supposed to be in by. We usually quit tracting around 8:30ish because it annoyed people. Can't say I blame them.

[Corsair]

There is a lot of social pressure to keep working right up to 9:30. I knocked on a few doors after 9:00 PM and never had anything other than annoyed people turning me down as politely as possible. I was always glad to have an appointment that would end around 9:00 so that travel time would remove any chance of feeling guilty about tracting at that time of night.

I imagine that this situation is starting to change. There are now Facebook missionaries who could reasonably talk to people later at night. I can't imagine that tracting has improved at all in the last 30 years since it was inflicted upon my daily routine. Perhaps I can ask the missionaries in my ward when I next see them.