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Posted: 5/23/2022 6:45:10 PM EDT

The nearby meetinghouse has 29 new SUVs parked behind it all the time. They don’t move. They’ve had them for several months now.

This is all readily visible from the nearby four lane divided parkway. The aren’t hidden from sight. I’m sure there’s a reason, it’s just something I’ve never seen before.

Can our resident LDS folks suggest a reason?

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Posted: 5/23/2022 6:45:52 PM EDT

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Tired of riding bikes.

Posted: 5/23/2022 6:46:39 PM EDT

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Mormon dealer hiding inventory for reasons?

Posted: 5/23/2022 6:46:50 PM EDT

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Where’s the nearest Toyota/Nissan dealer. Dealers near me used to store shit at the mall when they ran out of room. Kind of odd these days, but maybe they weren’t prepared for the shipment or something.

Posted: 5/23/2022 6:47:05 PM EDT

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Probably replacing all the vehicles the missionaries use. They do this pretty regularly.

Posted: 5/23/2022 6:47:39 PM EDT

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Missionary fleet I would assume.

Posted: 5/23/2022 6:48:05 PM EDT

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Probably for missionary’s use. Must be a big stake there. I think that the women and men here share a car.

Posted: 5/23/2022 6:48:16 PM EDT

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It’s happening.

Posted: 5/23/2022 6:48:23 PM EDT

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They are probably planning a massive Karen attack

Posted: 5/23/2022 6:49:49 PM EDT

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Storage. Either for the church or someone is paying them to store the cars there.

Posted: 5/23/2022 6:50:33 PM EDT

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Are you off Stacy east of 75? Saw the same thing a few weeks ago at an LDS church.

Posted: 5/23/2022 6:52:14 PM EDT

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I’m betting a dealership is renting space from them.

Posted: 5/23/2022 6:52:52 PM EDT

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Posted: 5/23/2022 6:53:42 PM EDT

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Yes. Been there for several months.

They never seem to be moved. No security fencing. Much of the time it doesn’t look like anyone is there to guard them.

Posted: 5/23/2022 6:55:35 PM EDT

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Will rent them out for 10% of your gross pay...

Posted: 5/23/2022 6:56:16 PM EDT

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Probably replacing all the vehicles the missionaries use. They do this pretty regularly.

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Yep. Seen them at a few places in the last few months. Not sure how they pick which ward will house them, but it is nothing to worry about.

Posted: 5/23/2022 6:56:18 PM EDT

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Missionaries use vehicles. Duh.

Posted: 5/23/2022 6:59:03 PM EDT

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There is a small town near me with at least 2 fields full of trucks and jeeps just outside town. I'm assuming inventory storage, but why so much inventory during a car "shortage"?

Not many LDS near me, but it may be the same phenomenon.

Posted: 5/23/2022 7:01:27 PM EDT

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that's a heck of a hail claim waiting to happen.

Posted: 5/23/2022 7:01:48 PM EDT

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Having served a mission

A) suv's are a bit if an odd choice, as missionaries allowed a car only need room for 2-4 (we weren't allowed to give anyone else rides, so at most you, your companion and maybe another companionship in certain circumstances), and the mission president/mission home usually has a van for taking new/returning groups if missionaries to/from the airport and mission home

B) I would expect extra resources to be kept at the mission home or mission offices, not a ward house or stake center (mission home is basically where the mission president lives with his wife/family and also where new missionaries bunk for a day or so before being assigned out to a trainer and their own apartment or family to stay with)

C) I've not seen a mission where there was a car for every companionship, or even a large minority of them. In mine, the only ones with a car besides the handful of elderly couples and the president were his assistants and one other companionship that had a very large area to cover. Most other missionaries I knew were in similar circumstances.

Posted: 5/23/2022 7:01:48 PM EDT

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One I used to live near always had a lot full of Chevy Malibus; a dozen of them. That's what I always assumed they were used for.

Posted: 5/23/2022 7:02:47 PM EDT

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Don't require that down here.

Posted: 5/23/2022 7:06:40 PM EDT

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Those are CUVs

Posted: 5/23/2022 7:11:07 PM EDT

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They even bought two Nissans. Something must really be going on.

Posted: 5/23/2022 7:13:15 PM EDT

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Store at a mall, exposed to mall rats and other vermin (urban ‘utes)

or

Store at a CJLDS meetinghouse exposed to basketball, missionaries, and the Savior?

Your call.

Posted: 5/23/2022 7:15:11 PM EDT

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Local Catholic church has a half dozen that popped up about a week ago. All backed in nice and neat. I'm assuming its for Armageddon or some lease program they have is coming to an end and these are the replacement vehicles.

Or they are getting paid to store them.

Or they are full of cocaine.

Posted: 5/23/2022 7:15:12 PM EDT

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Wives can’t be jealous of each other if they all drive the same car.

Posted: 5/23/2022 7:20:08 PM EDT

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They let them drive?

Posted: 5/23/2022 7:21:07 PM EDT

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You could just ask? They'd probably tell you what's up.

Posted: 5/23/2022 7:22:01 PM EDT

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Probably something along those lines.

While the church property is not supposed to be used for commercial purposes, a lot of local leadership will bend the rules for their own personal interests.

Posted: 5/23/2022 7:23:20 PM EDT

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Those are technicals in the bad days to come. Mormans always keep that thang on them and always have a wagon ready to GTFO whenever shit turns sideways.

Posted: 5/23/2022 7:24:21 PM EDT

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Probably replacing all the vehicles the missionaries use. They do this pretty regularly.

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Posted: 5/23/2022 7:26:01 PM EDT

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Wrong.

They are MAVs.

Mormon Assault Vehicles.

Posted: 5/23/2022 7:29:29 PM EDT

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Came to post this. Good job P400!

Posted: 5/23/2022 7:29:57 PM EDT

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Probably something along those lines.

While the church property is not supposed to be used for commercial purposes, a lot of local leadership will bend the rules for their own personal interests.

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Mormon dealer hiding inventory for reasons?

Probably something along those lines.

While the church property is not supposed to be used for commercial purposes, a lot of local leadership will bend the rules for their own personal interests.

Somewhat hard to imagine why they'd be sitting around for months though, being there's a new car shortage, if it was just dealer inventory.

In the bottom picture, two of them seem to have regular normal license plates, but the ones on the right seem to have some sort of advertisement thing, not the same front plate as the others?

Maybe OP could get us a better picture?

Posted: 5/23/2022 7:30:19 PM EDT

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There is a small town near me with at least 2 fields full of trucks and jeeps just outside town. I'm assuming inventory storage, but why so much inventory during a car "shortage"?

Not many LDS near me, but it may be the same phenomenon.

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There's a dealer in a neighboring county that would move all of their vehicles out of the county before a certain tax date so they wouldn't have to pay taxes on them. Once the date passed, they would move them back in.

Posted: 5/23/2022 7:30:35 PM EDT

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Maybe LDS is getting into the car dealership biz.

Posted: 5/23/2022 7:32:27 PM EDT

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Might be where the local mission is storing their mission vehicles. Theoretical on my part I've been out of the church for 13 years and served a mission that was walking only.

Posted: 5/23/2022 7:33:16 PM EDT

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I was expecting Mormon Assault Vehicles aka MAVs.

Posted: 5/23/2022 7:35:33 PM EDT

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Posted: 5/23/2022 7:37:34 PM EDT

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They're all plated, so it's unlikely they're from a dealership.

Posted: 5/23/2022 7:38:19 PM EDT

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Not sure of the current chip shortage - but manufacturers were shipping out incomplete cars. It is entirely possible that these are missing something that it will be easy for a dealer to add when the chip becomes available. Till then, lots less hassle at the dealership to not have them sitting on site and not for sale.

Ok, that excuse does not really hold up well to plated vehicles.

Posted: 5/23/2022 7:42:56 PM EDT

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Does everyone wear these shoes too?

Seriously, all front plates have the same dealer so I'm assuming storage.

Posted: 5/23/2022 7:51:00 PM EDT

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Probably this.

Lived across from a guy who housed 2 missionaries constantly. One pair would cycle out and the next pair would show up. All year.

Talked to him once and we got into WTF is up with the missionaries at his place. Tells me they house them and they are from all over the world. Ask him about who pays for the rental car as that has to get expensive. He says the church owns the cars they drive.

Posted: 5/23/2022 7:51:37 PM EDT

[#44]

I thought they ride in horse and buggies

Posted: 5/23/2022 7:58:31 PM EDT

[#45]

Join the church and get free suv program is coming soon.

Posted: 5/23/2022 7:59:31 PM EDT

[#46]

Have Aimless call me.

Posted: 5/24/2022 4:11:57 PM EDT

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Posted: 5/24/2022 4:20:40 PM EDT

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Exactly.

From the ruble of the coming times will rise a culture that values family, morals, preparation, education, and self sufficiency.

You may not like it,
But the Mormon Hegemony will be the closest thing to traditional American values and culture at its peak that we can hope for.