Verfasser:	James
Datum:	Donnerstag, den 10. Januar 2002, um 5:53 Uhr
Betrifft:	Unterstützt die Missionare!

Nach dreijährigem E-Mailverbot dürfen HLT Missionare nun wieder in beschränktem Maße per E-Mail kommunizieren. So in einem Brief von Boyd K. Packer, "amtierender Präsident des Rates der Zwölf" an die "Kirchenführer." Sie dürfen jedoch lediglich ihrer "Familie" am "Vorbereitungstag" (dem "prepday", "preparation day", i.d.R. Freitags bis 17:00 Uhr) schreiben. Missionare werden angehalten nicht die Computer von Mitgliedern zu benutzen, sondern öffentlich zugängliche oder kommerzielle Möglichkeiten.

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Original:

"Wednesday, January 9, 2002
 
Limited e-mail for missionaries

LDS Church eases ban — but adds some stipulations

By Lynn Arave
Deseret News staff writer

Limited e-mail communication has again been OK’d for full-time missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Three years after a total ban on e-mail use by missionaries, a new letter sent to priesthood leaders allows the use of computer communication — with certain stipulations. However, e-mail service will still not be offered at missionary training centers because of limited resources there.
The change is contained in a recent letter to priesthood leaders from President Boyd K. Packer, acting president of the Quorum of the Twelve.
A summary of the letter, released by the LDS Church’s Public Affairs Department, says in part:
"Because of concerns about traditional mail reliability and security in some parts of the world, church leaders have approved the use of e-mail for missionaries to communicate with their families. Per long-established practice, missionaries should write home only on preparation day.
"Due to the nature of their work, it is impractical for missionaries to have their own computers, but they may use computers in libraries or in other appropriate public or commercial facilities. Missionaries will cover their own costs for using e-mail, if any, and are asked not to impose on church members who may have computers.
"Mission presidents may establish other local guidelines as needed. Due to limited resources, missionary training centers will not provide e-mail service."
The letter contains no instruction that it be read in sacrament meetings, but some bishops did read it over the pulpit Jan. 6.
Some abuses of e-mail by missionaries in the past, particularly the inconvenience of missionaries using the computers of church members to send messages, were apparently a major reason for the e-mail ban three years ago.
Common complaints among some parents of missionaries serving for the church — especially those in some foreign nations —involve not getting mail or long delays in receiving mail from their sons or daughters. Some parents believe e-mail use will mean communication with their missionaries will improve.
Jon M. and JoAnn Taylor, Kaysville, have a son, Ben, on a mission in Tennessee and also four grandchildren serving in foreign countries.
"We loved e-mail when it was available to missionaries before," JoAnn Taylor said. "But I can see its potential abuses."
The Taylors receive regular mail from their son, but the mail from their grandsons overseas is slow and sporadic.
She said one grandson serving in the Netherlands wasn’t heard from for weeks through regular mail. However, another grandson serving in a nation struck by a hurricane some years ago, when e-mail use was OK for missionaries, used it to promptly inform his family that he was safe.
John and Joan Johnson, Brigham City, have a son, Ben, serving in the Dominican Republic. Mail delivery was so bad at one point last year that they didn’t hear from him for five weeks.
Since then, the church has developed a special "pouch" system of shipping mail in bulk from area missionaries there. Now, they hear from their son in about eight days.
"I think it’s OK the way it is," Joan Johnson said.
Lynn and Deanna Davis, West Point, who have a missionary son, Blake, in Thailand, went for almost a month not hearing from him because of mail delays last year.
"I’m all for e-mail," Deanna Davis said. "It’s the next best thing to phoning home."
When her oldest son was serving in the Ukraine — before e-mail use by missionaries was discouraged — Davis said e-mail was the only certain way to communicate with him. Mail always took a month or more to arrive, if it came at all."

Quelle:

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,360007149,00.html

Cheers, James

Unterstützt die Missionare! – James, 10.1.02 um 5:53 Uhr
Verbot warum? – Thomas, 10.1.02 um 6:57 Uhr
Deshalb – James, 10.1.02 um 7:47 Uhr

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