Are you curious about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but not currently comfortable with the idea of a face-to-face discussion with Mormon missionaries? Would you like to be able to have a real-time conversation about faith and God beliefs with missionaries while maintaining some anonymity and personal space?
Then the option to have a voice or video call with missionaries may be just the thing for you. Here you can have a real-time, no-obligation discussion via your phone or computer about Mormonism with a missionary. Ask questions about the Church in the privacy and comfort of your home, or in a hotel room while on a trip, or on your handheld device while riding the bus. Chat at a time that works for you using a medium that allows you flexibility and some space to process what you are learning.
If Facebook is more your style, you can connect with Mormon missionaries there as well. For example, at the time of this post, I two Facebook missionaries in person and they were fantastic. (“Elder” is a title that male missionaries have during the time they are serving. Women go by “Sister.”)
Habla Español? Hay misioneros que pueden ayudarle tambien. (Actually, there are missionaries who speak a wide array of languages.
Of course, if and when you ever would like a face-to-face discussion, you can request to have missionaries who live in your area visit you.
Hi Mormon ladies,
I’m wondering about Emma Smith. Why didn’t she follow Brigham Young to Utah with the multitude of Mormons who came? and do you know what happened to Joseph Smith’s Mom? my head is reeling and it all started last sunday in sunday school class when the teacher mentioned something about the Reorganized church called the Community Of Christ and how they own the Kirtland temple.
love to hear your thoughts
thanks
jesimer, here’s an article that addresses some of your question about Emma and Lucy Mack Smith: http://www.lds.org/ensign/1992/08/my-great-great-grandmother-emma-hale-smith?lang=eng
Will be taking this concept a step further this evening when a friend of mine in New York state will be meeting with the Missionaries. I however am on the west coast and obviously can not be there. We have received permission from the Mission President that I can participate via Skype. I even called Salt Lake and the Missianary Dept had never heard of this being done. As my husband said. “Is there any better way to use the internet than to proclaim the Gospel?”
Caroline, that is wonderful! I believe this technology is such a potential blessing to the Lord’s work. God bless you and your friend!
Just some questions before baptism…..Why did the church spend billions to buy a street in Saltlake city, rather than give to the poor? No one can answer this question and just trusts in the prophet.. I shall give an answer but hope to get an answer also from you? Commonism will oneday rule the western world. It shall be the one world united order, that will usher in sunday law. The govenment will be under that order and can confensate and take properties owned under federal law. They want be able to take the mormon church land and temple grounds as it is fully owned by the church. The mormon united order would then be given as welfare protection to the saints to live this law and not fall victim to commonist law. Many churches and their land, still owned by the govenment will be taken from them to comply to commonist rule. Maybe the buying of lds street and temple site, a future protection to the church but at a cost of not able to give that money to serve the poor, can make sense but its a hard question because no one knows the future but the prophet may of had revelation to make this decision to spend so much money on land. This sunday law one world govenment commonist take over,is suppose to be the beast of 666 welfare system of everyone to comform to its welfare help programe with a chip or mark on the wrist or forehead….The mormon united order system may be the only system in the world to escape it and protect and provide for its members, tho it comes under sunday worship,that the beast respects, Roman empire, the catholic rule.
Saturday worship mentioned in the origianl 4th of the ten commandments say to remember the sabbath day, and keep it holy… IF the holy day is saturday,not sunday the worship on this day, could mean breaking sunday law and to be inmprisoned or beheaded under commonist rule. The devil seems to claim sunday as his holy day but mormons believe the resurrection day being the true sabbath a change by revelation of a prophet being above the bibles message against any man who thinks to change the times and seasons is accursed. IN fact the bible also mentions any other angel preaching a different message than the bible is accursed…..HOw does mormonism justify what the bible says to convert people to what is suppose to be the only true church apon the face of the earth. I still am interested in babtism into the church once these questions are answered thankyou very much….
Lucy and John,
We wish you the best in your journey as you consider baptism into the Church.
Before I approach your questions, my question for you is if you have a conviction that the Book of Mormon is true. If not, none of my answers will likely mean much…even though I’m happy to share my thoughts and a few links. The foundation of our faith is in the combination of the Bible AND the Book of Mormon, which is the book God has given us to discover for ourselves whether the claims of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints of being the Restored Church of Jesus Christ are really true.
I urge you to focus your quest on getting your own answers about these fundamental claims about our beliefs in God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ (that they live! and are distinct Beings who visited Joseph Smith in 1820 to usher in the Restoration); about the Book of Mormon being true ancient scripture translated by Joseph Smith; that priesthood authority was restored through Joseph, and that the Church has been and continues to be led by prophets today…just as in ancient times!
As to your question about City Creek, the decision of the Church to invest in helping with the downtown project is best explained in this interview with Bishop H. David Burton.
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700014610/Mormon-leaders-and-Salt-Lake-City-work-together-to-transform-land.html?pg=1
I’ll include a chunk from that article here in my comment:
You can also read more thoughts about it here:
http://en.fairmormon.org/Mormonism_and_church_integrity/City_Creek_Center_Mall_in_Salt_Lake_City
I will also add my own personal observation that the homeless problem that has been frustrating the city is blocks away from the city center, which was floundering when the decision was made to invest in the project. A thriving city center is beneficial for all in the area, and this is true for any city.
I have a testimony of the truthfulness of the Church. But besides that, I love how practical it is. For example, it has LDS Employment Centers all over the world to help people find jobs. It is opening up education opportunities for people all over the world. It has amazing worldwide connections with organizations that help with disaster relief and serving the poor. It contributes money to various sectors to better communities, such as the arts, education, etc. As is stated above, collaborative community development is part of what we DO.
We are also all invited as members to find ways to contribute to our communities in positive ways just as the Church seeks to do.
Again, there is a lot of practicalness to our faith in addition to the amazing spiritual and religious truths that we hold dear and invite others to pray and search about.
Please answer! I am a girl who is 11 years and I am struggling to find out my true beliefs. Please help because I want to learn about Mormonism and that chat no longer works btw. They changed the whole site!!!! Mormonism is very interesting to me because my favorite YouTube channel follows it so I wanted to know what it was (Shot of the Yeagers if you’ve heard of them). Is there any other chat I could set up with a missionary or just a Mormon who can talk to me about the religion/belief. Please answer. Thanks
Hello, Arshi!
Thank you for your comment. You are right! The site has changed quite a bit. Here is the new website you can look through to learn more about our beliefs. https://www.comeuntochrist.org/beliefs
The email address you used likely won’t allow a message from someone not on that email server, but I’m happy to chat here with you via comments on this post, or you can email me at [email protected] using an email address from one of your parents (with them letting me know that they give permission for me to email you back, so we could chat in that way.)
You can also call this number to find out more about how to set up a chat with missionaries: 1 973-543-8122
I’m excited for you to learn more. I also have some friends who know the Yeagers so I am going to let them know that you love their YouTube channel! 🙂
Hope to hear back from you soon!
Also, arshi, you might enjoy looking at the Church’s program for children and youth. https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/youth/childrenandyouth/?lang=eng