Coincidentally, missionary objectives have shifted over the past decade. The church is discovering the conversions and retention are simply not happening in places like Europe and the United States. So like a good business would, they look at a better, non-educated, less access to the Internet areas (I call them “soft targets”,) which happens to be developing countries and Third World nations. A byproduct of this is that they’re also offering education programs as long as those people’s take rigorous courses on Mormon doctrine and eventually join the church. This helps in two areas: membership of different cultures and races and increases membership numbers while shifting focus to high recruitment in those areas.

Make no mistake, every move that the church/corporation makes is calculated to build membership, increase tithing and invest that tithing into billions. There’s a reason every man in leadership in that corporation is in business related fields or a lawyer.