Monday, November 24, 2014

The Mission Report

Here's another strip that's painfully out-of-date. When I was growing up my ward would regularly invite mothers of the missionaries to take a couple of minutes in sacrament meeting to report on their missionaries. At some point, this practice has fallen out of favor--at least in the wards I've attended for the past dozen years. I was always surprised, given the age and maturity of many of our missionaries, that we didn't hear more reports like this.

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  1. Our last missionary's dad would sometimes talk about him in testimony meetings (in fact, I did on one occasion as well!) but he'd set up a weekly group e-mail that went to most households in the ward so we were all kept up to date with his adventures.

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    1. We've been a part of some of those group emails as well. It's a great way to experience vicariously the ups and downs of full-time missionary service.

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