What is the proper relationship between members and full-time
missionaries?
“We properly pray for the safety and success of the full-time
missionaries throughout the world. And a common element in many of our prayers
is a request that the missionaries will be led to individuals and families who
are prepared to receive the message of the Restoration. But ultimately it is my
responsibility and your responsibility to find people for the missionaries to
teach. Missionaries are full-time teachers; you and I are full-time finders.
And you and I as lifelong missionaries should not be praying for the full-time
missionaries to do our work!
“If you and I would truly
pray and ask in faith, as did Joseph Smith [see Joseph
Smith—History 1:10–20]—if we would pray with the expectation to act and not just to
express—then the work of proclaiming the gospel would move forward in a
remarkable way.”
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