LDS Blog Challenge Day 14

Today's post will be quick and easy. I don't really have anything TOO insightful for most of today's question.

14. Would you like to serve a mission? Where? If you’ve already served, where did you serve? What does missionary work mean to you?

I have not served a mission and nearly has the sweet husband.  But we are contemplating one as a senior couple.  Which is still forever and a day away but we think it's something we would enjoy doing together.  Since we will be done working by then and not full-time parents (probably), we are very open to serving anywhere in the world that the Church and Heavenly Father need us.

Now what missionary work means to me.  I have a very strong appreciation for missionaries seeing as all of my family including my in-laws are not members.  I can only do so much to show them how wonderful the gospel is.  Eventually I need the Lord and the missionaries to take over.  However, I believe very strongly in every member a missionary.  The missionaries have much more success when we are sharing the gospel but also just being a dang good example of the Saints.  It is very hard for the missionaries to teach the gospel in a positive light when people's first impressions are negative and about horrible people they don't want anything to do with, let alone have anything in common with.

I also love missionaries because of my own missionary currently serving in Salt Lake City (the unofficial North mission).  He has been a dang good example to me his whole life of who I should be.  But since he left on his mission, that has just increased ten-fold.  My baby brother has such a strong testimony and really makes me want to be better and share the gospel with more people.  I mentioned that I am bracing myself for being a member missionary again once I leave Rexburg.  Just mentioned it basically in passing.  Didn't think much of it.  And then my amazing, genius little brother told me to study the Preach My Gospel manual.  "One it gives most of the doctrine of the church in very simple terms and it would help you learn a little better how to share the gospel. And then when you get called to be in some presidency or other big calling you will already know what you need to do to help the missionaries and you can go on splits with the sisters if you ever live around any."  I unfortunately left both of my copies at my mom's house when we moved out here.  So I can't study it right now but Chris and I will be going home sometime this summer to get the rest of our stuff so I should have them back in my possession in just a few months.

Well I think that is all for today. Happy reading and blogging!! :-)