[JCEccles]

I see these guys around a lot and have to admire them for their work. Sometimes they go into neighborhoods that are not very safe. It almost surprises me that more of them aren't victimized. I assume these kids were white.

My eldest son got hit in the head with a egg-sized rock thrown by some local boys while visiting a tough neighborhood in Manchester, England on his mission. It almost knocked him unconscious and his first thought was anger and retaliation. But then he remembered why he was there, staunched the wound with a cloth, and got on with the work.

My second oldest son was regularly in places in and near Riverside, California, that seemed quite unsafe.

Most missionaries are white and of European extraction, but by no means all of them. These days you likely to run into a lot of darker-skinned Samoan, Tongan, or South American missionaries assigned to missions in the United States. One of the missionaries in our area here in Utah is ethnic Tongan, from Compton, California ( a very rough neighborhood). He's a fine young man.

[higgmeister]

young men and women who volunteer to spread the church’s message for one and a half to two years all over the world, at their own expense.

One thing that impressed me years ago is that some young
men enlist in the military as their mission. That's duty
to God and Country at the same time.

[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

"One of the missionaries in our area here in Utah"

Mormon missionaries in Utah?

Isn't that kind of like sending Catholic missionaries to the Vatican?