Commentary: 'With the current state of Mormon missions, many young people find themselves returning home from their missions wondering whether they made any real impact,' writes Derek Banks.
Billy Elliott, at right, a 17-year-old in Fruit Heights, Utah, gathers family and friends as he reads on an iPad his mission call for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The LDS Church is moving all such mission assignments to email, ending a tradition of mailed announcements.| Updated: Dec. 9, 2022, 1:54 a.m.
Currently, the first option for LDS missionaries is to serve a two-year, proselytizing mission. For most, this entails living in a different city of country and going door to door trying to find people to teach. So today, when a missionary comes home and asks themself the big question, the tangible proof or proverbial “fruit of their labors” lies in the number of converts they had, or in the transient cleanliness of the meetinghouse they serviced. And, for many, this looks like a failure.The LDS Church has vast financial resources, and some pretty amazing young people who truly want to do good in the world.
I know, I know, why reinvent the wheel? If there are organizations in place that give humanitarian aid, why don’t young people just volunteer directly with those organizations rather than serving an LDS mission? Well, if you are asking that question, you clearly haven’t heard the church rhetoric surrounding missions.
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