You know, I havene2��t seen or heard of splits in a long long time.One could do an enitre post on the subject of splits, particularly their coming and going (and what they are called). Yes, splits still exist (we do them weekly in our ward), and we still call them splits . But they have appeared and disappeared at various times, and there have been attempts to change the name to something more, I guess, dignified, such as member exchanges . The on-going concern with splits has been to avoid situations where a randomly volunteering member ends up in an early discussion being held with a (non-LDS) investigator and goes off on a tangent ( You see, blood atonement was only taught for a limited period in the late 1800s, mostly as a consequence of the Mormon Reformation . ). In our own mission (Colorado Colorado Springs), the current mandate is that if an investigator is being taught, both full-time missionaries have to be there. We're doing splits because the full-time missionaries and ward missionaries are working together to help all the families in the ward to have their own family mission plan. ..bruce..

by Marokkula 05:09:57 PM 2012.07.25