Advice for the Mission Field?

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Old-Timer wrote:

West, I wrote the following almost exactly two years ago. It is the talk I gave just before my oldest daughter left on her mission.

“The Advice I Am Giving My Daughter as She Departs on a Mission” (http://thingsofmysoul.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-advice-i-am-giving-my-daughter-as.html)

Also, your call sounds like a wonderful way to serve a mission.

Thank you, Ray, I love your advice. It’s appropriate for any missionary going out into the mission field regardless of their faith status. Thank you, thank you, I’m sure I’ll be reading it a lot between now and my departure.

On Own Now wrote:

I admit, until this thread, I knew nothing about “nurse specialists”. I’d love to hear more about it.

Oh well then, let me share with you what little I am aware of right now. ^^ Here’s the article where my mom and I first found out about the program: https://www.lds.org/church/news/health-missionaries-called-to-serve-him?lang=eng

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On the contrary, I am frequently grateful that I went and for the experiences I had. Before that time, I had never met an adult who couldn’t read or write. I had never been in a home with a dirt floor and without water and electricity.

I have many times. Some of them family members in my parents’ native country. In the whole, I think it was one of the major reasons I went into nursing — so I could have skills that I could take back with me to help them.

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Advice? Well, you’ve gotten good advice already. But I will channel Ray and tell you to remember to be yourself. You are not an interchangeable cog. You are a person with skills, life experiences, unique perspectives. Bring YOU to the table, not just a missionary.

Finally, here is a thread from last year that you might find interesting:

http://forum.staylds.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=5267

Thank you for the advice. Really, even reiterating advice. I love the “be yourself” advice; it’s something that never occurred to me, since I suppose deep down I know that this mission opportunity came so much later in my life than others because I needed to learn to be myself and love and appreciate myself the way I am.

And thank you for the thread; I’ve started reading it, and I just really love the viewpoints in this community.

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