“The catalogue of self-doubts in the original post are superficialities, only brought up to be dismissed. Obviously the young man didn’t decline mission service because his mother wasn’t a nimble housekeeper or scrapbooker.
The real doubts in every parents’ mind should include: Did I do everything I could to instill in my children a desire to serve the Lord through missionary service? Did I show by example that I value the Gospel enough to make personal sacrifices for it?”
Excellent. That was to be my comment had I posted it some other place...it is the very question we should ask ourselves from the very start of their lives.Instead I chose to stay silent.
That's ok. I worried and didn't say those things myself when I should have, so I said them here, quoting the one who said them.
Excellent. That was to be my comment had I posted it some other place...
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Instead I chose to stay silent.
That's ok. I worried and didn't say those things myself when I should have, so I said them here, quoting the one who said them.
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