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Utah Girl, some time ago, small groups (maybe just two people?) of LDS members would come to our home as they toured various neighborhoods. No one from your church seems to do this now and I was curious why not. The only ones who still seem to go door to door are the Jehovah's Witnesses. (We did have visiting Baptists once).

There are fairly sizeable Mormon communities near where I live (east of the Mississippi), so I was curious. Thank you.

I think Utah Girl has gone to bed, so I'll answer your question. In most areas outside of the "Mormon corridor", the missionary work focuses on a certain area for a while, and when it has approached all the homes twice or so (over a period of a couple of years, usually), they switch to another area. Of course, if an area is still yielding new converts, they'll stick around, but usually there comes a point when it makes sense to move on. They "only" have 50-60,000 missionaries in the field at any one time, and they're operating in dozens of countries, so they can't provide constant coverage everywhere.

Plus I think they're sensitive to the fact that it's pretty annoying when missionaries from the same church keep coming to the same door over and over again, no matter how many the times the occupants have said they're not interested. If you've seen any of the threads on FR (and elsewhere) about "how I deal with Jehovah's Witnesses who come to my door", you can imagine that the Mormons are not eager to become the next targets of such sentiments.

Personally, I wish they'd get to work in the radical Muslim countries. But alas, they only go to countries where the government approves their presence and activities, so I'd better not hold my breath.

What city/town do you live in? Were they young men (missionaries?) that were going from door-to-door? Speaking in generalities, cities are usually divided into areas or districts, and the missionaries are assigned accordingly. Sometimes areas won't have many interested people, so the mission president will have the assigned missionaries try a different approach or a different area, and then send them back after a bit. Oh, sometimes two lady missionaries will go proselyting also.