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Preparing for Missionary Service
In 2003's April General Conference, Daryl H. Garn gave a talk entitled, "Preparing for Missionary Service."
Following are some excerpts from that talk. If you'd like to read it in it's entirety, look it up at www.lds.org or
in the May 2003 Ensign. Elder Garn says:
"I believe it is appropriate to compare the game of basketball to missionary work. The game of basketball
includes not only the time you compete with another team on the court but also the hours of proper
training and practice. The great work of saving souls is not limited to the two years that you serve
a mission but, rather, requires years of righteous living and preparation in order to meet the standard
for full-time missionary service.
"In sports we often have great athletes whom we admire, and we strive to develop skills to become
like them. In our spiritual lives we also have great examples to follow, the greatest being our
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who responded to Thomas’s question, 'How can we know the way?' (John
14:5).
"The scriptures record, 'Jesus saith unto him, I am the way' (John 14:6). In 2 Nephi we read: 'Follow
thou me. Wherefore, my beloved brethren, can we follow Jesus save we shall be willing to keep the
commandments of the Father?' (2 Ne. 31:10).
"My young friends, there are many who are following 'the way' of the Savior, whom you can seek to
follow as your example as you prepare for missionary service. You will find them among your family,
your friends, and your Church leaders. Even today, I count as one of my greatest blessings those dear
friends who set the proper example by following the Savior.
"It is my prayer that you young men will be diligent in your righteous desires, that you will be
successful in all that you do, and that you will be, as Elder M. Russell Ballard has said, 'the greatest
generation of missionaries in the history of the Church (“The Greatest Generation of Missionaries,”
Ensign, Nov. 2002, 47; Liahona, Nov. 2002, 47)."
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