Missionary work has never been easy, and yet the joyful rewards cannot be equaled by any other experience.

The biggest challenge facing a missionary today is to forget himself and lose himself in the work.

It has been my privilege on various occasions to converse with presidents of the United States and important men in other governments. At the close of each such occasion, I have reflected on the rewarding experience of standing with confidence in the presence of an acknowledged leader.

If you are a good missionary, you will return home with the desire to continue to serve the Lord, to keep His commandments, and to do His will.

I have yet to find a faithful tithe payer who cannot testify that in a very literal and wonderful way the windows of Heaven have been opened and blessings have been poured out upon him or her.

Determine that there will never be anything that will come between you that will disrupt your marriage. Make it work. Resolve to make it work.