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Final Paper Blog

Part 1 In my paper, I will be exploring the religious traditions that are concerning the Mormon Mission Trips. In all of my research of memes, I saw that there was a more prominent amount of memes talking about the training that is needed in order to complete the 1.5-year mission trip. The exemplary meme that stands out one saying " You don't simply walk by Mormon Missionaries". This meme relates to the stereotypes that I've found while looking for different topics or subjects that are appearing. The stereotype that I found was that Mormons seem very out of the public eye and not many people know much about the religion but yet they are the most "annoying" and persistent missionaries because they are willing to go to any extent to talk to you about their religion. These memes that I found came directly from a Mormon website called mormonlight.com and I stayed with this website because I wanted to find memes that seemed "funny" to the Mormon religi

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As I looked through my collection of memes from the past couple blog posts I can observe that there are in are fewer stereotype memes like we talked about in class but there the memes teach us about learned behavior inside the Mormon community like church experiences and missionary trip training. But through all the memes you can see the connection between these religious experiences and traditions and religious leaders and how those religious leaders guide the community through experiences just like mission trips and sacrament prayers just like the meme below shows.  What specific religious issues/actors/community are being undermined or affirmed? What does this tell us about how the authority of this religious group is being interpreted? (Provide concrete evidence to support these claims)  Through all the memes that I have seen, I have seen nothing but positive memes about the Mormon religious leaders such as bishops, stake house councilman, and _____. In this meme a