Online Missions Announced

The church is going to announce online missions this General Conference. They have already tested them through a pilot program. They started the pilot program with couple online missions. They initially started with blogs. The success of mommy blogs lead to the church extending the pilot program to include single woman missionaries. These young women continued the success with fashion and makeup vlogs. The church went after makeup as it felt it would help counter the belief some have that Mormons don'r wear makeup.

The phenomenal success of these blog missions has lead the church to expand online missions. They will be making online calls for all missionaries. It is rumored that apostles have already blessed the land of World of Warcraft and Fortnite for missionary work.

The church believes this will be a more organic way to introduce people to the church. Online missionaries will have to take online classes about how to reach out to people about the gospel while playing games. There will be classes on a broad range of online proselytizing as well as game and platform specific classes depending on where you will be called.

This news was leaked accidentally as some of the first callings arrived early before the announcement. Already we know young men are receiving callings for the Fortnite, PS4, Call of Duty, Youtube, Facebook, and Twitch missions. More are expected to be coming soon.

The church has been forward in their use of the Internet to help raise awareness of the church. The church also sees this as an opportunity to include youth that otherwise might not want or be able to serve a mission. This will also help the church reach people in locations they physically can't get to  for political reasons.

What do you think? Do you want to be called to an online mission?  What online mission would you want to serve in? Do you think it's a good idea? Be sure to let us know by commenting below.