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I don’t want to post this in the open forum, because I don’t want anyone outside the forum participants to be able to use it negatively in any way, and because I have posted exactly where my daughter will be serving, but I want to share it with all of you – and possibly a few individuals via PM. (I might edit it to be something I would say to a mission president if I had the chance to do so personally and post it that way in the open forum.) I wrote it in response to a letter my wife and I received via email:
Quote:President ___________,
Thank you for the letter.
I served a mission in Japan and understand the communication restrictions and policies. We will honor them gladly.
My only request is that “success” be defined as it is in Preach My Gospel. I loved my mission and understand and support completely the need for measurements of effort, but I also have friends who had horrible experiences on missions due solely to high pressure sales tactics and success metrics used by their mission presidents. I want people to be converted more than I want people to be baptized, and, again, I want success defined as it is in Preach My Gospel, not strictly numerically. I want Sarah to be a faithful, successful missionary, but I don’t want her to feel like a failure if she ends up having an Elijah mission and not an Ammon mission. I would love for her to have an Ammon mission, but I would be happy if she becomes an Elijah if that is what the Lord has in store for her.
There is nothing in your letter that makes me feel uneasy or concerned, so please accept this as nothing more than the desire of my heart for my children who serve missions. My wife and I appreciate deeply your sacrifice and dedication in accepting the call to serve as Mission Presidents and in nurturing our daughter.
Old Timer
Very nice, if I was the mission president I would love hearing that from parents.
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