Commentary: Today’s Latter-day Saint missionaries: Clingy, soft and immature?

(Photo courtesy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Updated guidelines now allow full-time missionaries to call or video chat with their families weekly.

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Commentary: Today’s Latter-day Saint missionaries: Clingy, soft and immature?

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