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Becoming a Consecrated Missionary
A friend recently referred me to a talk given by Elder Tad R. Callister, a member of the Presidency of the Seventy, which he gave in the MTC about five years ago. It's called "Becoming a Consecrated Missionary," and is truly a wonderful talk. (Download/view on the Downloadables page.)If you've read "The Fourth Missionary" (I have download and viewing links here) by Brother Corbridge, "Becoming a Consecrated Missionary" might have some ideas that seem familiar to you.
"What is a consecrated missionary? It is a missionary who is willing to lay everything on the altar of sacrifice and to hold nothing back. It is a willingness to give every ounce of energy, every conscious thought, and every drop of passion to this work – to submit our will to God’s will whatever it may be. Every missionary who has been to the temple has covenanted to consecrate his all. The book of Omni records the depth and breadth of that covenant: “Yea, come unto me, and offer your whole souls as an offering unto him” (Omni 1:26). The law of consecration is the law of the temple, it is the law of the celestial kingdom, and it is the law of a celestial mission."
I read this talk the night before I entered the Manhattan Temple to receive my endowment, and am reading it for the second time now, a day after becoming endowed.
