At the Mission Presidents Seminar June 22, President Thomas S. Monson assured 74 new mission presidents and their wives that wherever they go, they are going to the right place at the right time.

"And you've been called by the right authority," said President Monson, second counselor in the First Presidency. "You are on the Lord's errand and therefore you are entitled to the Lord's help."President Monson emphasized the "Four M's of Missionary Work" - the missionary, the message, the mission and the members. He instructed the new mission leaders in each:

-The missionary. "When missionaries come to you brethren and sisters, will you ensure that you place them with qualified missionaries who will love them and help teach them to reach their full potential?

"The missionary will become just what you expect him to become," he said. "Treat the missionary as though he already is what he can and will and should become, and he will grow forward and upward in that pattern and will not disappoint you."

He also called on the mission leaders to encourage their missionaries to write home each week.

-The message. President Monson emphasized the following three points about the message:

First, missionaries need to know the discussions carrying the message. He said contacts love to hear about the plan of salvation. They also are impressed with the missionaries' testimony that a prophet of God leads and directs the Church. Finally, they are interested in a sacred record known as the Book of Mormon.

Second, he counseled missionaries to personalize the message by underlining passages in the Book of Mormon.

Third, he urged them to stay with the program and teach from the discussions.

-The mission. "How you organize your mission is very important," President Monson said. "Choose as your top missionary helpers those who can inspire othersT and grow in their talents."

He counseled the mission presidents to inform local Church leaders when a change is made in missionary leadership in their areas. "When you inform, you inspire," he said. "When you ignore, you injure. Don't ignore the feelings of the local leadership of the wards or the stakes."

Mission presidents also should take care of their families, President Monson advised. When President Monson was a mission president, he was reminded by Elder S. Dilworth Young, then of the First Council of the Seventy, that he would be a mission president for three years, but he would be a husband and father for eternity.

"You become the model - the role model for them to follow," said President Monson. "It's important that you maintain a spirituality so that when things are difficult you are not just a friend, you are their role model, their older brother, their father."

-The members. "No mission willT reach its potential without members involved in the program," President Monson said.

"I would try to win the love and devotion and the support of those members. That mission home of yours will never be put to a better purpose than if you're inviting the stake presidency and their wives, the high council and their wives, the bishopric and their wives, members and their wives to come over to the mission home to get acquainted.

"In this way involvement in missionary work will follow, the Church will grow and souls will be saved," he added.