Elder Daryl H. Garn
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"The bar for missionary service has been raised."
President Hinckley has said, "The time has come when we must raise the standards of those who are called to serve as ambassadors of the Lord Jesus Christ to the world."
"There are two aspects of raising the standard for missionary service that we would do well to consider. The first is the early preparation of young men and women."
"The second aspect revolves around personal worthiness, which comes through keeping the commandments of God."
There are transgressions that will disqualify young men and women from missionary service.
I wished that I had prepared to be a missionary as hard as I prepared to be a basketball player, but I believe it is appropriate to compare basketball to missionary work.
"The game of basketball includes not only the time you compete with another team on the court, but also the hours of proper training and practice. The great work of saving souls is not limited to the two years that you serve a mission, but rather, it requires years of righteous living and preparation in order to meet the standard for full-time missionary service."
"In sports. we often have great athletes whom we admire and we strive to develop skills to become like them. In our spiritual lives, we also have great examples to follow, the greatest being our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ."
Today's young men can be the greatest generation of missionaries in the history of the church.
