Recently, I had the wonderful opportunity to bring my wife and kids to the art studio of renown artist Jorge Cocco Santángelo. Jorge and his wife, Myriam, and son, Amiel, were so gracious and kind to let us into their home and talk to us and show us the artwork and studio where he creates […]
Summary: The following is the approach my family has taken to photo and video storage for our missionary in 2022. I’m not saying this is the best approach, there are clearly many ways to do the management of these digital image and video files, and ours is just one approach. If you have other suggestions […]
A majority of missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, at the writing of this article in 2022, will use a smartphone on their mission. When you receive your mission call, the Missionary Portal, pictured in the gallery above, will provide you with all the information you need about acquiring, setting up, […]
If you are soon to be filling out your mission papers for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, you may have wondered what information will be needed to fill out the full-time missionary application. Well, my family is presently (2022), going through the process for the second time in as many years and […]
What Is the Missionary Portal? The Missionary Portal of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints serves as the central hub for information and services needed when applying to serve a mission and preparing to leave. The portal provides access to the application system, Missionary Online Recommendation System (MORS), and other preparation and training […]
The Google Sheets file linked to in the button below is designed to help you track major milestone dates in your mission application and preparation to serve as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. You can input your own personal availability date into the file and then see our recommendation […]
This Day By Elder Ronald A. Rasband As a young missionary, I took the counsel of Elder Marion D. Hanks, who visited us in the Eastern States Mission. …He challenged us to read an unmarked copy of the Book of Mormon at least two times. I took up the task. The first reading I was […]
The following is a detailed accounting of the dates and steps our daughter went through in applying to serve a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and in preparing to leave on her mission in 2022. I share this with the hope that it may help many of you to make […]
Note: The Church has announced that most new full-time missionaries will do the online, at-home portion of training for just a single week beginning May 1, 2023. My daughter, pictured above, recently completed two weeks of what the Church calls “At-Home MTC.” I’m not sure if the Church ever did At-Home MTC prior to the […]
This video podcast is part 3 of my interview with my daughter, Hannah Smith, a young woman who recently began her full-time missionary service for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In this episode, Hannah talks about her mission farewell sacrament meeting, her setting apart, and her two weeks of Home MTC before […]
Not long after my daughter, Hannah, received her mission call, was when I first heard of an official Pre-MTC program from the Church. Hannah said that all of her BYU roommates from the previous semester who had received a mission call had done Pre-MTC before entering the actual Missionary Training Center (MTC). Upon doing some […]
This video is part 2 of an interview with Hannah Smith, a young woman in the process of submitting her application to be a full-time missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Hannah talks about submitting her mission application, receiving the call, preparing to leave, and receiving the temple endowment. The transcript […]