It’s an important thing to do if you’re a Mormon!  A practicing Mormon who created a calendar with pictures of shirtless (male) Mormon missionaries has been excommunicated after a disciplinary meeting with his local church leaders in Las Vegas.  

The man with a calendar mission – Chad Hardy – bears no ill will towards the council of elders from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He’s an entrepreneur and he says ‘I spoke my truth …they still felt the calendar is inappropriate and not the image that the church wants to have.’ The calendar, called Men on a Mission had already sold over 10,000 copies and has now sold out as a result of the publicity, although Chad says there won’t be any more printed to meet the new demand.  The dozen missionaries are all wearing their uniform of black trousers but lacked the Mormon trademark white shirts.  In smaller supplementary pictures they were shown in their full missionary wear and talking about their religious beliefs.

It isn’t yet clear if action will be taken against the 12 modelling Mormons by their church elders.