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FundamentalDan said:I don't remember actually being encouraged to miss visitation for political campaigning until one of the church members' brother ran for mayor of Bethany. Then it started to happen all the time. I do remember questioning a teacher as to why Earnest Istook, a Mormon, was addressing the church about being brothers in Christ on a Sunday morning. God's church is much greater than any political office. It is a shame to debase the pulpit from the truths of God's Word to a cheap political speech. The same could be a said for our command to go and evangelize every person.
I can remember that college students started skipping these because they had too many kids to visit on the bus route and cared more about them than the stupid politicians so a rule was made that you had to go "check in" just like chapel and if someone didn't they would receive demerits. Well this became a problem because then they started giving each college student 50-100 doors to go and if you had group of 3-5 people in a car (cause of the 3 girl 2 guy rule) it would take all morning to get it done.
So resourceful college students got around it by checking in and then sending everyone back to the car but 1 person. That person would get maybe 50-100 doors and then all 5 people would work on them made the time go by much faster.