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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is the honor code?  Does it actually say no caffeine/coffee/soda?

Why are guys who completed a foreign mission the most desirable?

This is fascinating.

- non-Mormon[/quote]

Because traditionally the foreign missions went to the guys with better resumes, basically, so more likely to be able to get a good job or go to a top law/med/business school . And it’s kind of circular I guess because certain employers view a foreign mission favorably and want to hire them. [/quote]

So the missionaries we see around here (in the US) are "not as good?"   What about missionaries from other countries that come to the US?[/quote]
It's not an official "policy", per se, that people with better resumes or involvement go on foreign missions. You don't "apply" to missions or anything like that. You go where you are called, and how the process works is that you submit your papers to the church headquarters, and then after a computer system evaluates your language requests, any health needs, which missions have openings, etc. the 12 apostles then assign you to a mission based on "divine guidance" and "revelation". (insert eye rolls here) Of course, the pattern that the 6'2" blonde former homecoming kings whose dads are bishops tend to get sent to Tahiti or Japan or Paris while the pimply, introverted overweight kids with no "pull" in the church get sent to like...Omaha or Cleveland...is well-documented and kind of a running joke in the church. [/quote]

You pay for your mission too, so rich kids are more likely to be sent to higher cost of living locations.[/quote]

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