LDS Church Approved Blogging Missionaries: New York Rochester Mission First Pilot Program

This week I was contacted by one of officially approved blogging missionaries from the New York Rochester Mission who is involved in a pilot program for the LDS Church. Sister Michele Watts, a senior couples missionary, came across my missionary aggregator Mormon Mission World and was perplexed why there were so many missionary blogs. She told me that it was against missionary instructions for missionaries to blog and where did all these mission blogs I have come from.I informed her that missionaries do not officially blog but their parents, siblings, girl friends or boy friends post the missionary's weekly email on such blogs. She then informed me that she was one of the only officially sanctioned missionaries that were assigned on their mission to use the Internet to contact investigators through the use of either a Word Press or Blogger blog and a Facebook page.

Elder Dajeu: LDS Online Missionary

I am Elder Dajeu serving in New York Rochester mission of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

I am 21 years old originally from Cameroon Africa and have dedicated 2 years of my life to serve my Father in Heaven to help his children to come unto him.

I am one of the online Missionaries and share the gospel with everyone I come across. I try to increase their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ by adding more to what they know to be true.

O, That I Were an Angel!: New Media for Mormon Missionary Work (Blog of the Month)

This past couple weeks I have been receiving emails from Gideon Burton, an English professor at BYU who specializes in rhetoric particularly relating to online blogging.  He and I agreed to collaborate on identifying good missionary blogs that he can use as examples for his students and for prospective future missionaries and their families. Today to my surprise I came across his newest blog O That I Were An Angel: New Media for Mormon Missionary Work that he has put up since our emails began. The blog is really graphically pleasing and has some really good insight in to the topic of missionaries using the new media. In his new blog, that has been active for only one week, Burton has already put up five posts.