Recently someone I know quite well has had dreams about the first presidency making an announcement allowing Latter-day Saint sister missionaries the option to extend their missions 6 more months. If I remember correctly, the response was to the effect that “yes, we have considered it, but we’re going to take it one step at a time.”Īside from this statement in the October 2012 General Conference, I have another reason to believe Mormon Missionaries may soon be able to extend their missions by half a year- vivid dreams. Holland at a press conference if leadership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints had considered allowing sister missionaries to serve for a period of 24 months. Shortly after the missionary age change announcement last October, a reporter asked Elder Jeffrey R. Why Six More Months is Likely for Missionaries Leading statement by church official If so, I’d venture to guess that Sisters (and possibly Elders) would be allowed to extend their missions by six months. While there’s been no announcement, I think it’s quite possible that President Monson could make an announcement like this in the future.
“We’ve lived experienced lives … we feel a comfort level because we’ve experienced it,” Sister Phelps said.Here’s my analysis of what would happen if LDS Missionaries could extend their missions by six months. The Phelps, along with Grimley, attribute the effectiveness of their proselyting to the fact that since they are older, they are more experienced and relate more easily to investigators or those who are less active than the younger missionaries. “Senior couples do a lot of good,” Grimley said. Senior missionaries in the field are used in various ways, and with the recent changes in the requirements to be a senior missionary, many more are able to serve who previously were not able to. Terry Grimley, who was released four months ago from his senior mission at Heber Valley Camp, said, “Senior couples are very well prepared, usually, to take care of problems, to help people, to inspire people into the gospel through not only teaching them the concepts and the principles, but also using personal experience to testify of the blessings that people receive by obedience to the gospel laws.” Brother and Sister Phelps are serving as stay-at-home missionaries in the Utah-Provo mission. “We just have more time to devote and to ease those burdens of reaching out,” Sister Virginia Phelps said. Everybody wants to be a part of it it’s exciting.”Įlder Phelps and his wife are stay-at-home missionaries who, instead of going out to knock on doors, seek to reactivate members and part-member families in their ward and stake. “I think people feel an urgency now that they may not have felt 20 years ago. There’s opportunities - many, many opportunities - for older people to serve,” said Elder Richard Phelps, who is currently serving in the Utah-Provo mission. “I think the Church, the leaders have emphasized this hastening of the work, that the Lord is hastening his work. There has been an increase in the number of senior missionaries serving in the LDS Church over the last two years in service missions, leadership missions, stay-at-home missions or proselytizing missions. Senior missionaries currently make up 8 percent of the missionaries serving around the world in various capacities, according to Mormon Newsroom. LDS retirees’ hobbies include relaxing, doting on their grandchildren, fishing and serving as senior missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I can say from my own experience … that it is a very enjoyable experience.” (Terry Grimley) “It is a blast (to be a senior missionary). Terry Grimley enjoyed his time working with senior missionaries both as a mission president in the Taiwan-Taipei mission and as a senior missionary in the Heber Valley Camp mission.
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