“May I mention a matter close to my heart and which deserves our serious attention. I speak of missionary work. “First, to young men of the Aaronic Priesthood and to you young men who are becoming elders: I repeat what prophets have long taught—that every worthy, able young man should prepare to serve a mission. [...]
A couple of years ago, Elder M. Russell Ballard gave a landmark address called Sharing the Gospel Using the Internet. In the spirit of that address, I am announcing the launch of a new section of Mormon Mission Prep that I’m calling Mormon Share. In Mormon Share (under “Share” in the site top navigation), you [...]
The following is a the text of a talk I gave in Church today. It’s not extremely mission prep related, except inasmuch as missionaries’ work is to help establish Zion. But hopefully you’ll still enjoy it. City of Enoch I’d like to talk to you about the Zion society known as the City of Enoch. [...]
Here is a video excerpt from another good talk from October 2009 General Conference on the subject missionary preparation. This one is from Elder Yoon Hwan Choi of the Seventy and his talk is called I Love Loud Boys. Elder Choi has a thick accent and can be difficult to understand at times, but his [...]
Here is some good mission prep counsel from Russell T. Osguthorpe, Sunday School General President. This is an excerpt from his October 2009 General Conference talk, Teaching Helps Save Lives. “When I was in my teens, a recently returned missionary named Brother Peterson taught our Sunday School class. Every week he would draw a large [...]
I hope all you future missionaries took time to listen to our living prophets speak to us last weekend during General Conference. Six months ago, I blogged about all the talks on Mission Prep from April 2009 General Conference. I plan to do that again for this conference, but for now, I thought it would [...]