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12-01-2007, 07:41 PM
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Okay, so I'm preparing to serve a mission. I'm a 20 year old female. I'm reading and praying and fasting more that I ever have in my life, but I still have some questions. They aren't really questions that can be answered by a book either... It's mostly LDS "common knowledge" but because no one is endowed in my family and obviously no one has served a mission I have a few questions.
1. How soon before you are 19/21 can you put your papers in? 2. How soon after you put in your papers can you expect your call? 3. How long is it between your call and when you leave? 4. How soon can you recieve your endowments? Before your papers/call? 5. If you could go back and prepare to serve again, what would you do differently? 6. If you could go back and serve again, what would you do differently? 7. What would you take with you that you didn't? 8. What would you have left home that you took with you? 
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12-02-2007, 04:17 AM
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I'm preparing to serve a mission as well.. and I'd like to know the answers to these questions too. I can't answer any of them, but thanks for making this thread.
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12-05-2007, 10:58 PM
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i also have these same questions and was really wondering what was up with all of it and if someone could shed some light on the situation it would be greatly appreciated by all of us and since i am the only member in my family i am really out of the loop.
thanks andy
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12-06-2007, 05:27 AM
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Awww...c'mon guys! Help these poor people out...is there a document that answers their questions, that they could download perhaps?
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12-06-2007, 06:06 AM
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1. You can put them in anytime. I put mine in a good 5 months before I was available. One sister serving in our branch right now put hers in about 2 months before she reported. 2. Again, that varies. See above. My call came about 3 months after I submitted, but I had said I wasn't available until at least 4.5 months later because I was in school. 3. Some take a couple of weeks, some a couple of months. 4. Once you receive your call, you can receive your endowments. It is highly recommended that you wait on taking out your endowments until you are in your mid-20s if you don't have marriage/mission plans. 5. Study more of the scriptures, gain a greater/stronger testimony, and be more humble. 6. Work even harder. It is only 2 years, and it affects the rest of your life. I still see myself as 19-21 and see/feel/sense things that happened on my mission like it was yesterday. I don't dwell on it, but it truly affects your life (and let's just leave it at my mission was over a long LONG time ago). 7. More church books to read. I love to read, and let's face it, as much as I love the scriptures, I can't read them hours on end. 8. Didn't take much I couldn't use, so nothing.
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That would not be difficult to express. I found most helpful to me was going to my knees thanking my HF for life, for experience, for my family, and then directly asking him to go before my face, to be on my right hand, to be on my left hand, and his spirit in my heart, and his angels round about me to bear me up. --Thomas S. Monson, Feb 4 2008 News conference upon becoming President of the LDS church. Hard work won’t kill you, but why take the chance?? ---Motto of the Democrat Party
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12-06-2007, 07:26 PM
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Thanks Sixpacktr, I'm sure your comments were much appreciated
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12-06-2007, 07:42 PM
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12-07-2007, 02:57 AM
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Thanks for your answers sixpacktr!
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12-24-2007, 10:46 PM
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... 5. If you could go back and prepare to serve again, what would you do differently? Well I went to seminary, and I was pretty spiritual for my age. What would I do differently? I dont have any regrets at all. But, at the same time, for me, I was too much the missionary. I mean I got up at 5am, studied my brains out, and didnt get back from tracting until 10pm at night - yep, No lunch break! I learned to loosen up at the end of my mission a bit. So, my advice, follow the guidelines for your work and study schedule as directed by your mission. Use that as your gauge. Other advice, well .... I'm a convert, and had a dad, who really wasnt that great, and was not a member. So, I naturally had a distrust for any father figure, even a mission president. It wasnt until the end of my mission that I learned that I could trust authority in the church. I had an incredible mission president that was a retired 4 star general in the air force. I had the honor and privelege of serving him in the office. I think the best advice is be ready to learn whatever you need to learn. Heavanly father knows you better than you .... take the hard moments and learn from them. Once you understand that, you'll understand the purpose of your mission, and your life. Its not always about being totally ready, although you should be as ready as you can. Sometimes its how you deal with not being ready for something. In other words, learning to trust the Lord, the Spirit, and leaders of the church.
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12-25-2007, 01:24 AM
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... 5. If you could go back and prepare to serve again, what would you do differently? Well I went to seminary, and I was pretty spiritual for my age. What would I do differently? I dont have any regrets at all. But, at the same time, for me, I was too much the missionary. I mean I got up at 5am, studied my brains out, and didnt get back from tracting until 10pm at night - yep, No lunch break! I learned to loosen up at the end of my mission a bit. So, my advice, follow the guidelines for your work and study schedule as directed by your mission. Use that as your gauge. Other advice, well .... I'm a convert, and had a dad, who really wasnt that great, and was not a member. So, I naturally had a distrust for any father figure, even a mission president. It wasnt until the end of my mission that I learned that I could trust authority in the church. I had an incredible mission president that was a retired 4 star general in the air force. I had the honor and privelege of serving him in the office. I think the best advice is be ready to learn whatever you need to learn. Heavanly father knows you better than you .... take the hard moments and learn from them. Once you understand that, you'll understand the purpose of your mission, and your life. Its not always about being totally ready, although you should be as ready as you can. Sometimes its how you deal with not being ready for something. In other words, learning to trust the Lord, the Spirit, and leaders of the church. [/b][/quote] WORDFLOOD!!!!!! So awesome to see you back posting here again. I've missed you!!!!!
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