New technologies have elicited a huge change in how the
church is run. Many of these changes can be seen in missionary work, often with
the same technology that was discouraged a short time ago. Missionaries are now
allowed and encouraged to use Facebook and other social medial to further the
work. Five years ago emailing home was a privilege for missionaries
and time spent using this technology was very limited. Although social media was
already well established by this point, going to any website that was not
directly run by the church was prohibited (not even third party email). These policies were understandable; the internet can be a dangerous place if you are not careful. More and more of the
missionary force made up of people who don’t know a world without these
technologies. With this tech savvy missionaries can make these tools become very
powerful while avoiding their spiritual dangers.
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