Elder Ballard “We need you. Like Helaman’s 2,000 stripling warriors, you also are the spirit [children] of God, and you too can be endowed with power to build up and defend His kingdom...We need you to make sacred covenants, just as they did. We need you to be meticulously obedient and faithful, just as they were... What we need now is the greatest generation of missionaries in the history of the Church. We need worthy, qualified, spiritually energized missionaries... Listen to those words, my young brethren: valiant, courage, strength, active, true. We don’t need spiritually weak and semi-committed young men.
We don’t need you to just fill a position; we need your
whole heart and soul. We need vibrant, thinking, passionate missionaries who
know how to listen to and respond to the whisperings of the Holy Spirit. This
isn’t a time for spiritual weaklings. We cannot send you on a mission to be
reactivated, reformed, or to receive a testimony. We just don’t have time for
that. We need you to be filled with “faith, hope, charity and love, with an eye
single to the glory of God” (D&C 4:5).”
