We are DEADicated!
Posted on 12/22/2011 6:58:45 AM PST by Colofornian
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Tuesday, where co-host Joe Scarborough asked him about his experience as a Mormon missionary in France in the 1960s. “Talk about your rejections as a missionary knocking on door, after door, after door in a hostile environment,” Scarborough asked.
Romney recalled five months he spent in one French city, where he said near-constant brush-offs built his resilience:
“We knocked on doors from morning until quite late in the evening,” he said. “We didn’t convert one person in five months. So, you understand the rejection, you know that’s a pretty high level of rejection and you get used to it. You say, ‘okay, what do I believe, what’s important to me,’ and you don’t measure yourself and your success by how other people react, but instead by how you’re doing and how you feel about the things you care about.”
Watch the clip...(Romney speaks about his experience as a missionary starting at the 2:00 mark):
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In the Mormon town we were living, two young men were sent on missions, one murdered another young man with a gun,in front of friends, the second was caught breaking into the explosives store shed belonging to the forest service.
They went on missions to avoid being sent to prison.
They could have bagged a lot of French men by telling them they'd become gods with a huge celestial harem........ That's pretty much how the French men think of themselves anyways.
So many lies and cover ups with in the Mormon church.
Cults will be cults.
BS.
That is mathematically improbable.
If they knocked on some 200 doors a day or even a mere 50 doors a day, for 5 months, they would have produced at least a 1% closing ratio.
Let’s assume only 50 doors a day:
6 days a week x 50 doors a day = 350 doors.
Of 350 they can assume a 10% success rate of open doors turning suspects into prospects. They could have opened 35 doors a week and converted 1/3 of a % of opened doors.
He would have converted at least 1 person per month and that would be seen as success.
If, on the other hand they were able to knock on some 150 per day they would have had 15 doors opened per day or 90 per week.
That would have resulted in .9 conversions per week or 3 per month.
Total baloney that he was that horrible of a salesman and didn’t convert a single person for 5 months.
Daddy
There are Catholic and traditional Christian churches everywhere in France.
Particularly in the 60’s, Mitt would have found many Christians and Catholics ripe for the picking.
So Mittens has FAILED in EVERTHING that he has done.
How about in the OTHER months??
He WAS there a YEAR or more; right??
We are DEADicated!
Mittens couldn’t talk one Frenchman into believing he could become a god in 5 months?
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5 months? Every Mormon kid I’ve ever known goes on a two year mission. Why was Romney’s so short?
He was talking about 5 months in one specific city. Missionaries get transferred around every few months. Mitt was on an LDS mission for 29 months total in various parts of France.
As we don’t know the specifics of the other areas, the article is misleading.
I knew a LDS family about 38 years ago who had a son in the mission field. He was not sent to convert people, he was sent to counsel missionaries who were suicidal due to the constant failures to convert people.
Had an LDS bunch show up at the front door. Said they would like to talk to me. I told ‘em “Sure come on in. Have a seat. It’s hot out, would like some lemonade or water?” They said a little water would be appropriate. I gave them their iced water and a couple of cookies. Then I sat down, looked at them and said “What would you like to talk to me about?” They stammered, looked at each other and said “ We don’t know. Never got this far before.”
Parts 1 and 2 are pretty interesting.
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/specials/romney/articles/part1_side/
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/specials/romney/articles/part2_main/
Re: 5 months - he is talking about a single city, not his entire mission. He served the full time of 2ish years in france, but only 5 months in that one city.
You are correct I didn’t take the era into account.
So I was only half right.
So many lies and cover ups with in the Mormon church.
That was an interesting transition. He was the driver in a car that was hit head-on by someone who crossed onto the wrong side of the road and that equates to "lies and cover ups"? I guess you see what you expect to see.
Do you feel that everyone who has been in a car accident is part of a cult?
Yup, and one of the most mis-leading headlines you can get. Funny what bias does to people.
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