Couples who serve missions will reap rich harvest of love
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Addressing his remarks to "the generation who are moving into their mature years," Elder Vaughn J. Featherstone of the Seventy spoke of missionary work by couples at the priesthood session Saturday evening.
Many of that generation, he noted, "have served God, country and fellowman, a strong, principled and committed generation, which did great things but had the wisdom not to talk about them much.""There is another need for us now," he added.
"There has never been a greater need than now for an army of mature couples to go out into every far corner of this earth and retain the fruit of the harvest. The harvest is truly great and the laborers are few."
He said he thinks the older generation will not be tested as the pioneers were tested. "They were called to leave all worldly possessions, homes, even family and loved ones, to cross the prairies to dry and desolate, forbidding lands. . . .
"There is a need now, not to leave homes forever, but for a time. Then return and reap the rich harvest of the faithful labor."
Applying the words of a popular song of several decades ago, "A Prisoner of Love," Elder Featherstone said, "Wonderful couples who simply love the Lord and will enlist in this great work and accept a call will also be prisoners of love, His love."
In branches, the Church needs couples who are filled with love and desire to serve, "whose chief responsibility is to bless the harvest so that the fruit will remain," he said. "Experience alone from a mature life qualifies us to become nurturers."
