Translation: Double down on indoctrination, press more volunteer duties and church activities, double down on missionaries assigned to home teaching and visits to members who fail to keep up with the program.
They are very polite, but when missionaries visit a mormon's house day after day for "prayer" or "fellowship" you are purposely being made aware that the eye of the bishop is on you...in love and concern, of course. But it is a form of religious police IMO...
And a note on volunteerism...I once tried to contact my 82yo mormon mother and couldn't get a hold of her for four days. All my family members are mormon, I'm the only ex, and I don't have contact with any of them, only her...so I had no one else to call. I tracked down her neighbor, who said when she'd left but had no idea where she'd gone.
It turned out the entire church ward was picking apples in an orchard. They were all volunteers, no pay involved. The owner of the orchard was a mormon who couldn't get his crop picked for one reason or another so they all picked apples for four days, and some donation was made by the orchard owner to the church, and SLC tells the local bishop how to dispose of it or where to send it.
People think the Asians have secret economies...they could take lessons from mormons. Somebody's making money, a lot of people are working free, it all becomes an indoctrination opportunity, see which members are the happy givers, identify those who aren't, send missionaries to the lazy members' houses. Of course, you can tell them to kiss off anytime, some do, and become "jack mormons" and get the cold shoulder. It's the co-dependent ones who will get the habit of obedience, then drop the habit of questioning, that become "good" mormons.
My mom's 82, and she's off sleeping on a cot in someone's kitchen, and picking apples all day! She did say, though, that after all the low-hangers were picked, that they didn't make her climb any ladders. They put her to work in a fruit stand by the highway selling fruit and apple cider to travelers. Nice of them.
It's always something...when I call her I joke with her whether the bishop had her hauling stones for the mormon pyramid again this week.
Was she happy about being put to work, or not? It’s an interesting society they have there, but I’d like to know what she thinks about it.
Are Mormons encouraged to have large families?