From time to time, Mission.net administrators receive requests from academic, anthropological, or theological researchers to send emails to alumni on their behalf in an effort to recruit participants for their studies. Because of the specific nature and objective of sites affiliated with Mission.net/LDSMission.net, we cannot publish communications to alumni or to the web site soliciting participants for surveys or studies. Maintainers for other sites affiliated with our organization will almost certainly make the same decision. This is in response to commitments we have made to each other and to our registrants.
A suggestion which may prove more productive than attempting to contact returned LDS missionaries through websites such as ours is that researchers contact the Missionary Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at 801-240-2221. If you would prefer to mail information to this office, the address is:
Missionary Department
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
50 E. North Temple
Salt Lake City, UT 84150
The Church's official website is www.lds.org.
The Church publishes several periodicals, any of which you may wish to contact in your effort to reach recently returned missionaries. LDS Church News is a weekly which is distributed in Utah along with the Saturday editions of the Deseret Morning News, and is mailed to subscribers worldwide. According to the masthead of the LDS Church News, the editor is
LDS Church News
Attn: Gerry Avant
30 E. 100 South
Salt Lake City, UT 84111
The phone number is 801-237-2141.
The Church also publishes a number of monthly periodicals in English, as well as in other languages (some with varying periodicity). Please start by contacting the editor of the Ensign, the Church's English-language monthly addressed to adults. The Church's headquarters, will be able to direct you further. That number is 801-241-1000.
Because the great majority of LDS missionaries serve from the age of 19 to 21 (males) or 21 to 22 (females), a significant number attend college on returning from their service. Many of them will associate with the LDS Institute of Religion at their college or university campus, if one is available (which is the case at every college/university in Utah). You may wish to contact the Church Educational System, which administers the Institutes. The CES website, www.ldsces.org, lists two phone numbers to reach the CES Help Desk, which may be able to direct you further: 800-826-4751 and 801-428-0600. The latter number is their main office. Its mailing address is
Church Educational System
2370 S. Constitution Blvd.
West Valley City, UT 84119
Another approach you might take is to contact the newspapers (or other points of contact) at the various colleges and universities having a
significant number of LDS students. These include, but are not necessarily limited to:
- Brigham Young University, Provo, UT (www.byu.edu)
- Brigham Young University-Idaho, Rexburg, ID (www.byui.edu)
- Brigham Young University-Hawaii, Laie, HI (www.byuh.edu)
- LDS Business College, Salt Lake City, UT (www.ldsbc.edu)
- University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (www.utah.edu)
- Weber State University, Ogden, UT (www.weber.edu)
- Salt Lake Community Colleges, Salt Lake County, UT (www.slcc.edu)
- Westminster College, Salt Lake City, UT (www.westminstercollege.edu)
- Utah Valley State College, Provo, UT (www.uvsc.edu)
- College of Eastern Utah, Price, UT (www.ceu.edu)
- Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT (www.suu.edu)
- Utah State University, Logan, UT (www.usu.edu)
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