Mormon Passage

This work is the first to present detailed, first-person accounts of
the Mormon missionary experience.
Armed with little more than youthful vigor and firmly held religious
convictions, twins Gary and Gordon Shepherd left their home in Salt Lake
City in 1964 for two years as missionaries in Mexico. Mormon Passage
is one result of that experience, a combination of diaries and field notes
kept by the two during their mission and sociological analyses of their
experiences.
The brothers' goal is to help readers understand the consequences of
the missionary experience for the vitality of Mormon religious life.
"Seldom has excellent research been woven so tightly with personal
experience. . . . Very well written, a compelling narrative and an absorbing
analysis." -- Lavina Fielding Anderson, coeditor of Sisters in
Spirit: Mormon Women in Historical and Cultural Perspective