How Do You Become A Mormon Missionary?
A Mormon missionary is a young man or woman of the LDS faith who devotes two (or more) years to teaching non-Mormons about the religion in an effort to encourage conversion. The duty to be a missionary is one of the most serious in the LDS faith and is considered a holy obligation by Mormons. If you want to become a Mormon missionary follow these steps. Step 1 Be a good Mormon. It takes a good, practicing member of the LDS Church to become a missionary. This means that a man, at age 19, or a woman, at age 21, must have spent the previous years of his or her life attending church, practicing moral cleanliness and adhering to the principles of the Mormon Words of Wisdom. Step 2 Be prepared for the process. Being a Mormon missionary requires two years of difficult service to the religion. It takes an ability to endure rejection and physical hardship for the duration of the mission. If you feel you can devote yourself, then submit an application to become a Mormon missionary to the Church
Each person who desires to be a Mormon missionary must first complete an application process. He/she must have a desire to teach and show that he is worthy to act as a representative of Christ. Each missionary call is issued from Church headquarters in Salt Lake City. After receiving his call, a Mormon missionary enters one of 17 missionary training centers around the world. There he receives 3 weeks of training on how to best teach the gospel, or 9 weeks if he is learning a foreign language. Mormon missionaries travel and live in pairs and sometimes groups of three. Each has an assigned companion that he is expected to stay with at all times. Each Mormon missionary is assigned to a geographical area that is referred to as a “mission”. A mission president and his wife preside over the area and all of the missionaries within. They coordinate the efforts of the young missionaries by assigning them companions, providing training and leadership, and looking out for their material needs. A
