Lesson 20

Lesson Title: "Understanding a Missionaries Responsibility"

OTHER RESOURCES:

• Resource Guide for Young Women Manual 3 at lds.org.

OBJECTIVE:

Each young woman will understand a missionary’s responsibilities.

PREPARATION:

1. Picture 12, Missionary Companions, located at the back of the manual.
2. Prepare a poster or chart of a missionary’s daily schedule.
3. Optional: Prepare to have the young women sing “Called to Serve” (Hymns, no. 249).
4. Note to teacher This lesson discusses the responsibilities of full-time missionaries. All young men should serve missions. Unmarried women age twenty-one and older may also serve full-time missions. However, young sisters should not feel obligated and should not be urged unduly to serve full-time missions. A mission should not interfere with a young woman’s opportunity for marriage.

ATTENTION GETTER:

Show the picture of the missionaries and tell the story found at the beginning of the lesson.

LESSON:

CONCLUSION:

Tell the young women that when Elder and Sister Vaughn J. Featherstone were on their mission in Texas, Sister Featherstone went to the Lord for help. She was so busy in the mission field that she could not find time for herself for even a few minutes a day. She prayed, “ ‘Please, Heavenly Father, help me to find some time for myself while I am here.’ And she said that just as clear as anything in this world the words came into her mind, saying, ‘My daughter, this is not your time; this is my time’ ” (Vaughn J. Featherstone, in Conference Report, Oct. 1978, p. 34; or Ensign, Nov. 1978, p. 26). Explain that missionaries are working for the Lord. No one has the right to take their attention away from that work. We need to treat missionaries with respect and friendliness, but also with formality. We can help missionaries live up to what is expected of them and share the gospel effectively with others. Conclude by having the young women sing “Called to Serve.”

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