Mary Ann Shumway McFarland

MARY ANN SHUMWAY MCFARLAND graduated from Brigham Young Uni￾versity in Humanities and lives in Provo with her husband and children. She served a full-time mission to Barcelona, Spain, from 1992 to 1994

“Not Invited, But Welcome”: The History and Impact of Church Policy on Sister Missionaries

Articles/Essays – Volume 36, No. 3

Women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have engaged in missionary work since the year of the religion’s founding. But sociological research on the experience of these missionaries is still young and stands as a field white and ready to harvest.

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