{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "am I dreaming or did I see female Mormon missionaries", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/170014724643/", "html": "<p><a href=\"https://intentionalperson.tumblr.com/post/170006560269/kontextmaschine-argumate-am-i-dreaming-or-did\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">intentionalperson</a>:</p><blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"/post/169991839913/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">kontextmaschine</a>:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https://argumate.tumblr.com/post/169991688769/am-i-dreaming-or-did-i-see-female-mormon\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">argumate</a>:</p>\n<blockquote><p>am I dreaming or did I see female Mormon missionaries</p></blockquote>\n<p>Oh yeah, that\u2019s new in the last few years, it\u2019s less expected of girls though</p>\n<p>(and realtalk, it reflects the fact that these days there are more Mormon girls in target age group who aren\u2019t in college or married yet)</p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https://missionary.lds.org/clothing/sister/guidelines/?lang=eng\" target=\"_blank\">clothing guidelines</a> say they can be approved to wear dress slacks (rather than skirts) in periods and places of high mosquito-borne illness, I wonder if that means they don\u2019t get assigned bikes though<br/></p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Wrong: It\u2019s not new in the last few years. They changed the age requirement in the last few years from 21 to 19 for women (and from 19 to 18 for men), which did increase the number of woman missionaries in part due to hitting before the marriage cutoff you mentioned.</p>\n</blockquote>"}