An Apostle’s counsel to missionaries questioning their worthiness
Elder Neil L. Andersen, excerpted from "The Divine Gift of Forgiveness" - This excerpt originally ran on LDS Living in January 2020. Fifty years before the writing of these words, I was preparing to serve as a full-time missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Having begun my mission on October 24, 1970, and following language training, I arrived in Paris, France, on the twenty-ninth of December. Since my call to serve as a young missionary, more than 1,300,000 missionaries have been called and set apart to bear witness of the Savior, Jesus Christ, throughout the world, to share the message of His restored gospel, and to gather Israel in...