Our Call to Serve
Words cannot express the excitement and the joy that we felt, and continue to feel, as we read the following words in our mission call letter from Russell M. Nelson, the Prophet and President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints:
"You are hereby called to serve as a missionary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. ... You are assigned to labor in the Nauvoo Historic Sites. Your primary assignment is to serve as a historic site missionary. ... Our Heavenly Father will reward yo and your family for your service. Great blessings and joy await you as you humbly and prayerfully serve the Lord in this labor of love among His children."
Its official! Today we were set apart as full-time missionaries.
We begin a week of training starting Monday, March 1. Typically this training would occur at the Missionary Training Center in Provo, Utah. Due to the Covid pandemic; however, the training will occur from home via zoom and, as you can see in the photo below, we are ready to go.
Many wonder why we would be willing to leave our family and our home for a year to serve others that we do not know. The answer is simple, it is an act of love and devotion to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
As we have contemplated our mission we have been reminded of the words spoken by the Lord unto Moses as recorded in the book of Exodus 3:5: "The place whereon thou standest is holy ground." Similarly, the Church's historic sites are "holy ground" and indeed sacred places to Him.
No doubt we will meet families who have traveled more than a thousand miles just for the opportunity of spending a few hours at one or more of the Nauvoo historical sites. and we will have the privilege of introducing them to sacred places. Later, they will likely look back on their experience as time on holy ground. And as they look back, perhaps they will be inspired to look ahead—to draw nearer to the Savior and to learn more about His restored gospel.
Like the scriptures, the Church’s historic sites are kept “for a wise purpose.” They are “kept and handed down from one generation to another”—something we will see as visitors bring their children and their children’s children to experience the historical sites.
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