Editor’s Note: My parents completed their senior mission last month and I wanted to give one final report. As they were beginning their mission, I posted several articles about their senior mission, written by my dad: One about preparing to be senior missionaries One when they received their senior mission call One article on preparing […]
Terry and I have now been in Texas for two weeks. We are finding much satisfaction in our particular assignment–working with the young single adults in Denton, Texas. The main part of our assignment is to host the LDS Institute Building in Denton. The building is right next to the campus of North Texas University (which […]
On Wednesday, March 15, 2017, Terry and I completed our ten-day training at the Missionary Training Center (MTC) in Provo, Utah, and headed off in our car to Denton, Texas, to begin serving as missionaries in the Texas Ft. Worth Mission. Here are a few observations of our experience at the MTC as senior missionaries. There […]
Summary: Paul and Terry are well underway in their preparations to leave on a senior mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. See updates below. Related Post: Preparing To Be Senior Missionaries by Paul Smith Related Post: Receiving a Senior Mission Call by Paul Smith *** Update Feb 1, 2017 *** We will […]
My wife Terry and I received our mission call about ten days ago, on January 10, 2017. I want to let you know what that was like. Terry called me at work and said that the call letter had arrived in the mail; it was a large 9×12 envelope that was rather thick. As soon […]
My name is Paul Smith. I am a 65-year old attorney, with a solo law practice in Frederick, Maryland (suburbs of Washington, D. C.). My wife Terry is 63. We are waiting to receive a call from the Prophet to serve a mission for 15-19 months. My Background As a young man I served a […]
Note from the site editor, Jimmy Smith: Though they probably wouldn’t consider themselves experts, my parents know a lot about preparing youth for a mission. They sent eight sons on a mission. So I recently asked my dad to send me his thoughts on preparing children to serve full-time missions, and this is what he […]