Youth Gems: Mission Preparation

Gems for Youth
Mission Preparation
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“You can’t take water out of an empty bucket. When missionaries know the gospel and how to teach it, they don’t want to do anything else. . . . They have self-confidence and inner strength. There’s great power in that kind of preparation. For this reason, I encourage every young man and every young woman to get acquainted with Preach My Gospel. Young people have the obligation to enlighten themselves, to understand for themselves the doctrines of the Restoration. That preparation is every bit as important for a girl as it is for a boy. Whether the young woman gets married or serves a full-time mission, the gospel has to operate in her life.”

Topics: Missionary work, study, preparation

(Elder M. Russell Ballard, “How to Prepare to Be a Good Missionary,” New Era, March 2007, 8)