TrendZion

Passages drawn from the sermons and published works that carry this theme forward.

1. 1928·Richard R. Lyman·Apostle
   Recently I was asked by a great scholar to name outstanding characteristics of our people. I named first our missionary system. I am looking to see someone wise enough, philosopher enough, scientist enough, to explain how, with little opportunity for scholastic education, Joseph Smith could devise an educational institution of such merit as this missionary system.
   Elder Richard R. Lyman — April 1928 General Conference [address 1 of 2] [derivation] — conference_report⧉
2. 1940·J. Reuben Clark·Apostle
   We were blessed in having in Europe at the time Elder Joseph Fielding Smith and Sister Smith to counsel with the various Mission Presidents and take general direction of the situation. There were in our Missions at the time, including the wives and children of the Presidents, 697 persons, of whom 61 1 were young men and 63 young women missionaries, the other 23 were Mission Presidents, their wives and children.
   President J. Reuben Clark, Jr. — April 1940 General Conference [address 15 of 18] [derivation] — conference_report⧉
3. 1947·Ezra Taft Benson·Apostle
   one mission to the other, and as we traveled, the Saints asked us to take their greetings to their brothers and sisters in other countries although their nations had been at war only a few months before. Local missionaries had carried on during the war period. In some districts there had been more baptisms than during a comparable period prior to the war.
   Elder Ezra Taft Benson — April 1947 General Conference [address 3 of 4] [derivation] — conference_report⧉
4. 1953·LeGrand Richards·Apostle
   their boys go on missions. A short time ago one of our mission presidents reported that they had eighteen missionaries come into their mission out of homes where the parents were not active in the Church, but in a short time, in fifteen of those homes the parents had become active, so that the missionary work is not done only with the ones we meet in the missionfield, but in our own homes, in the lives of the missionaries, in the communities in which we reside, the wards and stakes, we help to lift the spirituality by the missionary work that is rendered in these wards and in these stakes.
   Elder Legrand Richards — October 1953 General Conference [address 3 of 3] [derivation] — conference_report⧉
5. 1964·Harold B. Lee·Apostle
   We wish again to express appreciation to the Tabernacle Choir as we have so often done in the past. May God bless them, their members, their officers, their directors. They are doing the most wonderful work that has ever been done in the Church as a missionary effort.
   Elder Harold B. Lee — October 1964 General Conference [address 5 of 5] [derivation] — conference_report⧉
6. 1976·David B. Haight·Apostle
   Last January in an effort to stimulate missionary activity, our Ohio stakes presented a program on the Word of Wisdom entitled “What Makes Mormons Run?” Church leaders encouraged members to bring many friends and neighbors to this meeting. A stake high councilor was sure his neighbors would refuse; and though he felt obligated to invite his next-door neighbor, he kept putting it off, knowing they would not accept.
   Families Are Forever — cojc⧉