It seems when you are committed to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, you have a tendency to view the ways you are serving in the Church to be so wonderful that you want others to feel the same way.  A few years ago after I retired from City Government I went and spoke to our Stake President and told him I wanted to volunteer at our local LDS Employment Services Center, but instead of just having me voluteer, he called me as a Service Missionary to labor there.  After serving for a short time, I tried to invite other retirees to do the same.  Subsequently, after Lorene retired we moved away and she and I were called as Service Missionaries at Deseret Industries.  Now, instead of just me being a recruiter, both of us began to tell our friends that a Service Mission is the best kept secret in the Church.  After that, we began to volunteer at our local Family History Center and again tried to tell our friends that they should join us there.

After some discussion, we have moved to the next phase of our lives.  We were recently called as full time Missionaries and are anxious to begin serving in the Family and Church History Headquarters Mission at the end of August.  We have not even started our Mission yet and we already feel that a full time Senior Couples Mission is the best kept secret in the Church.   At every opportunity we get, we tell everyone about our calling.  We also strongly encourage you as you read this to begin now to plan to serve at least one full time Senior Couples Mission.  We know of a surety that the Lord qualifies those whom He calls as we feel that we have much to learn as we will serve, but we also know that we have much to offer.  Now is the time to go, or the time to prepare.