Prospective Mormon missionaries will learn where they will be serving the new-fashioned way — by email

(Photo courtesy The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Billy Elliott, at right, a 17-year-old in Fruit Heights, Utah, gathers family and friends as he reads on an iPad his mission call for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The LDS Church is moving all such mission assignments to email, ending a tradition of mailed announcements.

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