Our hope is that a missionary will enter
the mission field at a time when they're
ready and that they want to go. One of
the challenges that every missionary has
when they're applying for a mission is
knowing when they're going to go and
when they're gonna come home. This new
tool will allow them to figure out when
I need to send my papers in, when I'll be
leaving and also when I'll be coming
home. We hope that it will help them plan
school, it will help them plan athletics,
it will help them play in employment so
that they can actually decide this is
when I'd like to serve, therefore this is
when I need to send my my papers in.
When the announcement was made that missionaries
could go at 18 or 19, all of a sudden
there became somewhat of a culture that,
'Oh you have to leave right when you're 18,' and that isn't what President Monson or
the other leaders of the Church have
said. We want them to come when they're ready.
Our hope is that they'll be able
to plan with this tool and it will make
it easier for them to go when they are
prepared to go.
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