In a Mormon missionary's shoes: Spreading the word in the Bible Belt

A car was parked in the driveway. Lights were on inside the home. But as the two men, dressed in suits and ties, knocked on the stranger's door, no one answered.

Not after the first knock, or the second.

The young, sharp-dressed Mormon missionaries — Elder Taylor Allred and Elder Kyle Gemmell — eventually turned, walked away from the home and made their way to the house next door to try again.

“That happens a lot,” Allred said.

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