We are at the end of our mission. Before he left, our previous mission president, President Robison, asked us to answer some questions. Following are those questions with our responses. First: What advice would you give to a senior couple considering a mission?
Go!
Don't worry about your family. They need you to leave them so that they can stand on their own feet. The Lord will take much better care of them than you ever could. See Doctrine and Covenants 100:1.
Don't be afraid of being sent to a primitive, third-world mission. You will be safe and you can be comfortable if you make yourself comfortable. I have spent two years with only one saucepan to cook with. I could have bought another, but didn't. We have done quite well with what we have.
Don't pass up the chance to learn something that you could never learn in any other way. You have a window of time between retirement and the retirement home. Use it to serve. If you visit as a tourist, the only people you get to know are your tour guides. We have lived here and there is a huge difference.
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Greetings from the West Indies!!
Great Blog.
Though I'm certain that the 'natives' would be more receptive to being Christianized if only they weren't referred to as 'primitive'.
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