I received the following comment that raises issues about missionaries use of the Internet:
Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Arizona Mesa Mission":I heard a similar thing from my own daughter about an elder friend of my daughter who lived with a member and every night he was MSN Messaging her and about five girls from Washington state on his mission. He lived with a member who allowed him to use his computer whenever he wanted. The young man in question did have a problem with porn before his mission but my daughter assured me that he had beat it so your concern about porn is valid. I knew many elders in an era of letter of writing that abused that method also some writing every day when once a week was the standard. One elder on my mission was totally useless until he received a Dear John letter from his girlfriend back home. Also if a missionary wants to visit someone it is hard to stop them short of sending them long distances away or home from their mission. Sounds like the mission president should stay on this better.
My daughter's ex-fiancée is a missionary in the Arizona Mesa mission. He regularly accesses the internet during the week and not just on P-day. He chats with girls via Facebook, including a 17 year-old girl living in the mission. He even finds excuses to visit this girl who lives outside of his area. Although he was called on the carpet by his mission president, he continues to use the internet and Facebook during the week.
What justification is there for any missionary to access the internet? Research can be done via dead tree method. Letters can still be written by hand. Access to the internet by missionaries opens to door to abuse, including pornography.
