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With so many temptations on the internet, it’s no wonder the students at a training camp for Mormon missionaries are required to use a special monitored email service. This is just a minor detail of a longer article in GOOD Magazine about young people who are trained like soldiers by the church and sent out into the world to convert people.

As the little white Missionary Handbook reads, for email “use only MyLDSMail.net, the filtered service established by the Church.… While using computers, always stay next to your companion so that you can see each other’s monitors.”

I visited the link, and thought the website was kind of funny. I mean I know nothing is totally secret on the internet, but imagine choosing to open an email account specifically because you know you will be watched. Is there a business model there? Maybe Facebook should pretend they are spying on us for our own good.