Long Hair on Men

[curtishouse]

In Utah (and some other heavily LDS locations) the Missionaries can be spread across multiple stakes, so the idea of having Missionaries there to greet folks isn't always true, they may rotate but with so many wards and if investigator they are teaching getting preference for their Sundays they can be pretty scarce. I know when I lived in Brigham City (2ish years) the Missionaries never attended the ward I was in.

I live in Fresno, California and there are only a few wards in town so I don't think scarcity of greeters would be a problem.

[Dravin]

I live in Fresno, California and there are only a few wards in town so I don't think scarcity of greeters would be a problem.

I was mostly responding about Vogaldon, he specified he was in Utah. As far as your situation you never do know, sometimes even if the concentration of wards isn't very dense the missionaries can still be sparse and have to rotate between wards meaning you aren't guaranteed to see them on any given Sunday. On my mission in one area I covered two wards (and only two) in the same building and the combination of meeting times and meetings (us meeting with various leadership) meant if we weren't able to split up with members my companion and I would have missed the sacrament of the later ward we covered.

You're right though, your chances are good, and as mentioned a lot of wards have people called as greeters, but it isn't as regular as the tides even outside of the Jello Belt.

Edited September 30, 2010 by Dravin

[hordak]

Be well-groomed. Make sure your hair isn't ratty. If it can be pulled into a ponytail at the nape of your neck, do that.

Think it looks better down

[Avrham]

you should be right mate as long as you feel comfortable in yourself>long hair shouldn't be a problem(at church anyway) wear it how you want to , I used to wear mine as a top knot more out of respect for my culture:):)

[Blackmarch]

Hi,

I am thinking about attending my first church service at a local ward but something is bothering me. I have pretty long hair down to my shoulders and a goatee as well. Will I be looked down upon because of this?

Well there will probablly be some prideful member somewhere that thinks long hair is of the devil, but for the most part it shouldn't be a problem. The only thing that members should keep in mind when appearing at church is that we are primarily there to invite the Spirit of God, and to renew our covenants with God. And we should consider something to be respectful of that when we go before him.

[Blackmarch]

Just realized I miscounted. The seventh President of the Church to go clean-shaven rather than bearded wasn't Benson, it was Hunter. So that means that Gordon B Hinckley's presidency was where the tie was broken and the clean shaven actually became the majority.

The fact that there was such a long stretch of bearded prophets, followed by a long stretch of clean shaven just verifies my point: There's nothing official about it, it's just based upon the social norms of the era.

Also, Brigham Young had long hair at one point when he was a prophet of God:

Maybe it's not super-long, but I think it conveys the point.

Except for his bald spot in back