It’s been estimated that during a very lucrative time for Fuller Brush Company, salesmen would get into 1 in every three homes by knocking on doors, and a sale is made in one of every six homes entered.

By comparison, young Mormon missionaries enter 1 in every 7 homes knocking on doors. And an estimated 500 hours of work is needed before one person is converted. But they start one new church a day.

North American evangelical missionaries number approximately 21,000 but the Mormon church has 20,000 missionaries worldwide, mostly young men, with an increasing number of young women and married couples.