MormonTimes.com: Missionary couples desperately needed, Seventy tells fireside

Published: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 12:07 a.m. MDT
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BOUNTIFUL, Utah — Just do it. Talk to your bishop and put in your papers to serve a mission.

That was the counsel given to senior couples by Elder Daniel L. Johnson of the First Quorum of the Seventy at a fireside in Bountiful on Sunday night.

Elder Johnson said senior missionaries are needed all over the world to teach new members how to lead. He said first-generation members don't know how a Primary should function. Young missionaries teach them, but their perspective and experience are limited.

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