Your Calling

Each of us is sent to earth with different capabilities and talents. With your unique abilities, you can make a meaningful contribution to God’s work on the earth. By faithfully serving as a service missionary, you will dedicate your time to the Lord.

“In fulfilling its purpose to help individuals and families qualify for exaltation, the Church focuses on divinely appointed responsibilities. These include helping members live the gospel of Jesus Christ, gathering Israel through missionary work, caring for the poor and needy, and enabling the salvation of the dead by building temples and performing vicarious ordinances” (Handbook 2: Administering the Church [2010], 2.2).

The work in which you are engaged as a missionary contributes to these divinely appointed responsibilities. Service missionaries:

Follow the example of Jesus Christ.
Render meaningful service.
Study and pray.
Build life skills.

You are expected to maintain the highest standards of conduct and appearance by keeping the commandments and following the counsel of your local priesthood leaders, your parents or guardians, and your supervisors.

You will be called to serve in one or more assignments.

As you serve and obey with a willing heart (see Doctrine and Covenants 64:34), you will show the Lord your love for Him, earn the trust and confidence of others, and continue to qualify for the companionship of the Holy Ghost (see John 14:15–17, 21; 1 Nephi 10:17; Doctrine and Covenants 121:45–46).