:-\
ya know i really don't think there is a good choice for pres.
.i'm thinking of writting in clinton..he can have all the women he wants if he balances the budget again...sigh ;)
but
this little news blurp..which i can't move the vid on..grrrrr
gives me pause as to the churchie angle that might become the norm..
i really luv that you can do any religion in ths beautiful country..but i really dislike being
solicited to join
sigh
guess you can't have one without the other
(http://i35.servimg.com/u/f35/13/55/53/83/s-morm10.jpg)
Mormons In Williamsburg: Missionaries Focus On Brooklyn Outreach With 'Street Sweeps' (VIDEO)
By Meredith Hoffman, DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
WILLIAMSBURG — As sunglasses-clad residents just off work strutted down the sidewalk, Bedford Avenue's latest pack of street musicians clustered on the North Ninth Street corner with a ukulele and guitar.
The dozen men in their 20s came from all over the country to serenade the trendy strip, though their performance was drawing little more than rolled eyes as most passers-by ignored them.
But the fresh-faced group in their dress pants, white collared shirts, ties and metal name plaques smiled.
"I am a child of God and he has sent me here," they sang, trying to hand out information cards about the Mormon Church, officially called the Church of Latter Day Saints.
"Even if one person says 'yes' and the rest say 'no' I feel happy," said one of the missionaries, Dallin McEwen.
"I feel fulfilled. No matter how people respond to me I know I'm doing what the Lord wants me to do," said McEwen, a California native who played football in college before taking a break to join the mission.
McEwen, 20, and his compatriots have recently amped up outreach efforts around the Bedford Avenue L train and southward to their church on Marcy Avenue by the Williamsburg Bridge.
In recent weeks they've started weekly information sessions, known as "street sweeps," where they speak about their religion on the sidewalk, perform music and hand out flyers.
"We've noticed the community feel," the area's mission president Kevin Calderwood said about the blocks in Williamsburg they're targeting, where a dozen missionaries now circulate, rather that two that worked the area previously.
"I'm really pleased with what we're doing."
Calderwood said the same number of missionaries are stationed in Brooklyn as before, but that they have been reorganized to focus more on the blocks by the Williamsburg church.
"We believe we're here to help," Calderwood said, noting that Mitt Romney's campaign for Presidency made strangers to the church more curious.
"There seems to be a heightened sense of 'what do you believe?'" he said, emphasizing the need to "dispel myths" about the religion.
But Calderwood and the missionaries said the new outreach effort is completely unrelated to the election — in fact, the missionaries are discouraged from reading the newspaper, using the Internet, or watching television during their two years of service.
"Our whole central purpose is to make people happy," said Cabanilla, a Utah native who joined the mission after one year of college.
"Every question people ask [about the election] I say 'I don't know, but I'd love to teach you about Jesus Christ.'"
The strict regimen of mission work every day, the young men said, has completely transformed their own lives as well.
"Before my mission I was a selfish 19-year-old kid," reflected Cabanilla, who has two months left of his service.
"Now I'm a caring man."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/24/mormon-missionaries-williamsburg-brooklyn-outreach_n_1827456.html
Hey sky, don't let stuff like this bother you, especially if you are "comfortable" with whatever your belief/religion is. These are just people who believe that they have good intentions for whoever they might come in contact with, whether the "whoevers" agree with them or not.
They are much like any other type of street vendor, who has something to sell, except what they are "selling" is not for price - it free to anyone who wishes to "buy" it.
There is considerable question about the parts of Mormon that were added by more recently declared revelation, which in fact was supposedly the basis for the creation of the Mormon "church". I suppose they believe they have a message, and are out there to offer it to the people. If there are any problems in their doctrine, that is God's problem, and he is well able to handle it, as it will be handled for all of us in the end. :)
hey rdunk
no worries....i am comfortable with what i believe or don't on any given day
i just don't like to be solicisted..
as far as the mormons go.. i like the story of josepgh smith and his alien/angel... moroni......and i laugh every time i read about it because my brain puts a space between the n and the i..lol
and i make it two words as to where his info came from..
sorry..just my wierd sense of humor
I've met Mormon missionaries who truly wanted to just get their information out thre, and I've met some who were bent on convertng as many people as possible. I've met JWs who were the same way. I've also met Wiccans who were intent on recruiting coven members. I'm willing to have an intelligent dialogue about religion and belief systems most any time, but when somebody starts telling me that I'm in deep doodoo for not believing their way, it's no longer intelligent.
Shasta
Sky, just kick them, they will get out of the way real quick. If that does not work, convert! lol
On the flip side of the world, we have "ZERO" of that here. If there is any religion, I can't find it. Yet, I see them praying every day to something. 3 insence sticks and 3 short bows, then open the shop.
I think they are praying for money to the business gods. Don't laugh yet, there are 3 of them and depending on what you do, you buy a different statue and light it up with a red bulb and a shot glass or 2 of bijoe. Some of these statues can cost a pretty penny.
Maybe you can give these guys a brochure from here and tell them to convert......lol
Deuem
Quote from: deuem on August 30, 2012, 08:56:01 AM
On the flip side of the world, we have "ZERO" of that here. If there is any religion, I can't find it. Yet, I see them praying every day to something. 3 insence sticks and 3 short bows, then open the shop.
Feng Shui
One of the top money finders for venture capital here in Las Vegas uses that. She is the one who was going to get us the $200,000,000.00 for the legends project :D