Church members would be encouraged to do more missionary work with missionaries in their wards and stakes.

The Church would experience tremendous growth and an increased sense of missionary purpose.

Families would have the opportunity to sacrifice financially to support missionaries in the mission field.

Elders and Sisters would have the opportunity to exercise their agency to choose to make an additional sacrifice to further the work of the Lord.

Foreign-speaking missionaries would have six more months to refine and develop their language-speaking abilities.

Supposing each missionary companionship has two convert baptisms per month on average (for the six months), there would be 450,000 more investigators brought into the waters of baptism by currently-serving missionaries.An extra 37,500 years of missionary work done by the current batch of missionaries in the mission field.If each missionary in the mission field chose to extend their mission by six months (30 months for Elders and 24 months for Sisters), there would be many possible benefits: There are currently over 75,000 full-time missionaries serving. Just think of all the extra good that could be done! Benefits of LDS Missionaries being able to extend their missions If Elders and Sisters could extend their missions by six months, what would happen? An announcement to be able to extend your mission would definitely be a bold and wonderful way to hasten the work and prepare for the coming of the Lord, Jesus Christ. Just as I’ve felt inspired to create resources for future missionaries, I know God’s children around the world are being inspired to prepare to way for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. Other than the leading response by the church official and the dream I think it would just be cool and make sense to allow missionaries (especially Sister Missionaries) to be able to extend their missions.

Who knows -we’ll see! The Lord is hastening His Work Also, because my friend has a missionary in the mission field, I believe an announcement would be especially relevant to him and thus qualify him for personal revelation on the subject. Though not all dreams are revelation, given the fact that it was so vivid makes me wonder. Having had several spiritually significant dreams myself, I’ve learned to trust how God can communicate important truths to us by dreams. Recently someone I know quite well has had dreams about the first presidency making an announcement allowing Latter-day Saint sister missionaries the option to extend their missions 6 more months. If I remember correctly, the response was to the effect that “yes, we have considered it, but we’re going to take it one step at a time.”Īside from this statement in the October 2012 General Conference, I have another reason to believe Mormon Missionaries may soon be able to extend their missions by half a year- vivid dreams. Holland at a press conference if leadership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints had considered allowing sister missionaries to serve for a period of 24 months. Shortly after the missionary age change announcement last October, a reporter asked Elder Jeffrey R. Why Six More Months is Likely for Missionaries Leading statement by church official If so, I’d venture to guess that Sisters (and possibly Elders) would be allowed to extend their missions by six months. While there’s been no announcement, I think it’s quite possible that President Monson could make an announcement like this in the future. Here’s my analysis of what would happen if LDS Missionaries could extend their missions by six months.

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