Comments on: Mormon Tracting

By: Juvenile Instructor » From the Archives: Posts You Might Have Missed, June-August 2008

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:26:44 +0000

[...] Mormon Tracting [...]

By: Elder John

Elder John — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 04:10:16 +0000

You all realize that the word “tracting” is not a word at all, right? Mormons made it up and its meaning. You can call it anything you like but the reason people in other religions don’t use it is because it is not a word. Secondly, “proselyting” does not make sense in the context that Mormons are using it. Someone was wondering why people say proselytizing, its because that is the act that you are doing. Proselyte is some who has been converted so if you are proselyting you would be turning into a proselyte. The correct word to use, then, would be proselytize.

By: Adam Greenwood

Adam Greenwood — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:05:09 +0000

In Spain we said ‘toking’ a lot. It came from ‘tocando la puerta,’ i.e., knocking.

By: PJD

PJD — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:00:13 +0000

edje, The only thing I was able to find was this statement from Pres. Hinckley “the most persuasive gospel tract is the exemplary life of a faithful Latter-day Saint”
I have a friend, however, that quoted Pres. Hinckley in a meeting where he stated “We shouldn’t be a tracting church, but one in which people see our good works and want to know more about us”

Either way….Maybe missionaries would have better results through rendered service than tracting.

By: Edje

Edje — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:09:54 +0000

Christopher: I saw the Roberts piece but didn’t look at it because it came so (relatively) late for the purposes of this post. I’ll have to give it a look.

J.: Thanks for the Young quote. Is there, perchance, a comphrehensive study of missionary techniques through time and location?

25-29: Enough with the slinking already. Rather than “not the best speller,” I prefer to of Seymour as “an innovative orthographer,” which covers his hand-writing at no extra-charge.

By: Jared T

Jared T — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:50:29 +0000

Shrink not, Ardis, I caught it…I laughed silently to myself at my desk.

By: J. Stapley

J. Stapley — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:50:10 +0000

I caught that, but went for feigned modesty…/shrinks away with you/

By: Ardis Parshall

Ardis Parshall — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:43:47 +0000

/feeling small/ That was supposed to be funny — noting the “proselyting/proselytizing” thing we talked about the other day, as if I hadn’t noticed the misspelling … /shrinking away/

By: J. Stapley

J. Stapley — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:46:39 +0000

Surely he does, but Seymour wasn’t the best speller in the world. There, but by the grace of God, go I.

By: Ardis Parshall

Ardis Parshall — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:43:34 +0000

“prosciliting”?

Doesn’t he mean “proscilitizing”?