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Senior Missionary Opportunities Bulletin March 5, 2013 SENIOR MISSIONARY Local: 801-240-6741 PPORTUNITIES ULLETIN Toll Free: 800-453-3860 ext. 2-6741 O B View weekly updates at www.lds.org/senioropportunities New Called to Serve Videos Serving as a full-time senior missionary is an opportunity to be cherished and sought after. Senior missionaries have more fl exibility and less strenuous requirements than the young missionaries. Learn more about your opportunity to serve from those who have already served. Please go to https://www.lds.org/callings/missionary/senior and click on the play button to see the new video stories of some who have already served. “we continue to need many more senior couples. As your circumstances allow, as you are eligible for retirement, and as your health permits, I encourage you to make yourselves available for full-time missionary service. Both husband and wife will have a greater joy as they together serve our Father’s children.” President Thomas S. Monson General Conference, October 2012 When prospective senior missionaries complete the Missionary Online Recommendation Forms, they are encouraged to indicate their interests and preferences regarding where and how they would like to serve. Please remember, assignments are made by the Lord through His ordained Apostles, and prospective missionaries should be willing to serve wherever and in whatever capacity they are called. For administrative purposes in this bulletin, the term GENERAL INFORMATION NOTE: bishop may refer also to branch president. The term stake Senior Missionary Services, Missionary Department president may refer also to district president. References to Office hours: Mon-Fri, 8 A.M.—5 P.M. (Mountain Time) wards and stakes may also apply to branches, districts, and General Questions: missions. (801) 240-6741 Expense policy for senior missionary couples: (800) 453-3860 ext. 2-6741 Medical Questions: • Couples can now serve a six-month mission (in addition (801) 240-6856 or (801) 240-0322 to 12, 18, and 23 month missions). (800) 453-3860 ext. 2-6856 or 2-0322 (toll free) • Couples can serve internationally for less than 18 Insurance Questions: months (either 6 or 12 months) if they pay their travel to (801) 578-5650 and from the mission field. (800) 777-1647 (toll free) Website: www.dmba.com/ssmp • Couples will pay no more than $1,400 per month for Travel Questions: housing costs (rent, utilities, and furnishings). This (801) 240-5111 does not mean that the total cost of the mission is only (800) 453-3860 ext. 2-5111 (toll free) $1,400 per month. Couples will still be responsible for Missionary Training Center Questions: transportation, food, and other personal expenses (see “Estimated Monthly Mission Costs” on pages 14-15). (801) 422-8634 Processing time: General E-mail: [email protected] Information provided in the Senior Missionary Opportunities Senior missionaries should receive their mission call four to six Bulletin relates to members living in Canada and the United States. weeks after the stake president submits the Missionary Online Members in other parts of the world can use the Senior Missionary Recommendation Forms to Church headquarters. If senior Opportunities Bulletin to get general ideas of missionary service missionaries are assigned within their country of residence, they opportunities and costs. generally begin service one to two months after receiving their mission call. If they are assigned to serve in a foreign country, it TABLE OF CONTENTS may take up to six months to obtain passports and visas. • Missionary Department Openings ���������������������������������������������������2 There is an urgent need for couples with very good health • Family and Church History HQ Mission ����������������������������������������3 who speak French, Spanish or Portuguese. • Auditing Department ��������������������������������������������������������������������������4 • BYU-Hawaii �����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������4 DEPARTMENT OPENINGS • Church Education System �����������������������������������������������������������������5 MISSIONARY DEPARTMENT • Curriculum Department ��������������������������������������������������������������������6 • Family & Church History Departments ������������������������������������������6 Senior missionary couples may serve in member and leader • Family History Support ����������������������������������������������������������������������6 support, visitors’ centers, mission offices, medical assignments, • Family History Records Preservation ����������������������������������������������6 military relations, and more. Assignment locations and costs • Marketing Operations Specialist �������������������������������������������������������6 are shown on pages 14 through 15. • Finance and Records Department ����������������������������������������������������7 CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA • Information & Communication �������������������������������������������������������7 There is an immediate need for senior missionary • Meeting House & Facilities ���������������������������������������������������������������7 Couples to serve as Member and Leadership Support • Military Relations ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������7 missionaries and in mission offices. One member • Music Department ������������������������������������������������������������������������������8 of the couple must speak Spanish. For more information • Office of General Counsel ����������������������������������������������������������������8 please call: (801) 240-6741 or (800) 453-3860 ext. 2-6741 • Perpetual Education Fund �����������������������������������������������������������������8 Email: [email protected] • Polynesian Cultural Center ����������������������������������������������������������������8 • Public Affairs Department ����������������������������������������������������������������8 DOMESTIC MISSIONS • Publishing Services Department ������������������������������������������������������8 All missions within the United States and Canada need senior • Recreational Properties ����������������������������������������������������������������������9 missionaries. There are many opportunities to serve full-time • Security Department ������������������������������������������������������������������������ 10 missions. Some missions can accommodate couples who want • Special Projects Department ���������������������������������������������������������� 10 to live in their fifth-wheel trailer, travel trailer, or motor home. • Temple Department ������������������������������������������������������������������������ 10 FOREIGN MISSIONS • Temporal Affairs Department ��������������������������������������������������������11 Foreign language skills are needed in many locations. • Translation Department �������������������������������������������������������������������11 Consideration of possible assignments may take into account • Welfare Services ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������11 languages previously learned as a missionary, even though some • Welfare Services - Dental ���������������������������������������������������������������� 12 brush-up may be needed. • Misc.: Non-Missionary Assignments �������������������������������������������� 12 Whether or not a language is required, if you are going to a • Estimated Monthly Mission Cost �������������������������������������������������� 13 country where another language is spoken you may participate • Recommendation Instructions ������������������������������������������������������ 16 in one-on-one language-tutoring sessions. These sessions are • VISA’s To Foreign Countries ���������������������������������������������������������� 16 available via Skype, telephone, and/or through an intensive immersion experience at the MTC. After entering the MTC, you will participate in three follow-up sessions. 2 Those serving in an English-speaking assignment in a foreign Senior Sisters (40+) country may wish to learn some of the native language to Senior sisters are needed to serve in the Family and Church facilitate shopping, interaction with neighbors, and participation History Headquarters Mission in Salt Lake City. There are in their ward or branch. After receiving a mission call (but also opportunities for senior sisters to serve in employment before entering the MTC), interested seniors may request one- resource centers, mission offices, records preservation, medical on-one tutoring via telephone or Skype. assignments, and in other areas. Many of these positions require LIVE-AT-HOME MISSIONARIES computer and office skills. Live-at-home missionaries serve full-time missions while still The only visitors’ center assignments available to senior sisters living at home. Opportunities include serving in mission offices, are in Nauvoo, Illinois. These assignments are limited in number family history centers, employment resource centers, Salt Lake and begin in March of each year. City Family History Library, and administrative assignments at There are a few temple assignments for senior sisters in Church headquarters. Live-at-home missionaries do not serve Washington, DC; Manhattan; and London. However, these as member and leader support missionaries (proselyting). If openings are rare and only available periodically. you are interested in this type of assignment, please contact the Missionary Department. There are no humanitarian or
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