851. Beyond email: In the United States, -- New service helps parents listen to their LDS missionary’s experiences! Families with missionaries take note!
To all families with missionaries out, this is really amazing, and exciting! As we all know, some missionaries are not as fluent in telling their experiences, and short missionary e mails are sometimes disappointing. So to you dear friends with missionaries out, this is something you may want to try out! Beyond email: New service helps parents listen to their LDS missionary’s experiences (Photo courtesy Mormon Newsroom) The idea is simple: On P-days, a missionary calls a toll-free number, talks to a machine for five minutes, then hangs up. A link to the recording is then emailed to the missionary’s friends and family. The implications are exciting: Families can hear their missionary’s voice, the missionary doesn’t have to spend as much time on email, and the process is well within LDS mission rules (the missionary never speaks to a live person, and calls are toll-free). The family can download the messages as a missionary voice journ