From a micro-level, conversion is a matter of the condition of one's heart. Switching to macro, 7 billion people who aren't ready to receive/produce a spiritual experience, will not accept the Spirit. Evidenced by the "Master Teacher" who wasn't able to "convert" many people.
Of course there are better practices for missionaries, but a "hardened heart" will never receive the gospel. Unfortunately, diagnosing a hard heart is nearly impossible. Which is one of the reasons we are charged to share the gospel to everyone.
Conclusion: We could quadruple our missionary force and still have disproportional changes due to the individual being unready/unwilling to accept Jesus Christ and the restored gospel because of cultural formulation.
They have survey batteries (series of survey questions) which attempt to make sense of hard to measure concepts. A fun survey battery to create would be understanding what you suggest... how open are people to the religion in general or to the Mormon religion? It would be interesting to see how this has changed over time and regional effects.
From a micro-level, conversion is a matter of the condition of one's heart. Switching to macro, 7 billion people who aren't ready to receive/produce a spiritual experience, will not accept the Spirit. Evidenced by the "Master Teacher" who wasn't able to "convert" many people.
Of course there are better practices for missionaries, but a "hardened heart" will never receive the gospel. Unfortunately, diagnosing a hard heart is nearly impossible. Which is one of the reasons we are charged to share the gospel to everyone.
Conclusion: We could quadruple our missionary force and still have disproportional changes due to the individual being unready/unwilling to accept Jesus Christ and the restored gospel because of cultural formulation.
They have survey batteries (series of survey questions) which attempt to make sense of hard to measure concepts. A fun survey battery to create would be understanding what you suggest... how open are people to the religion in general or to the Mormon religion? It would be interesting to see how this has changed over time and regional effects.