Latter-day Saint Life

Why It's Ok if Sisters Don't Serve Missions and Elders Leave Later

In a conversation with two friends, one mother excitedly described the girl her 23-year-old son was currently dating– accomplished, lovely, the most incredible testimony… “But,” the other woman interrupted, “she didn’t serve a mission, did she?”

“No,” my friend answered, “she prayed about the decision many times but never felt like it was right for her.”

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