Friday, January 29, Senior Missionary 2016 Local: 801- 240-6741 Opportunities Bulletin Toll Free: 800-453-3860 ext. 2-6741 View weekly updates at www.lds.org/senioropportunit ies

I’ll Go Where You Want Me to Go Hymns 270

1. It may not be on the mountain height or over the 3. There’s surely somewhere a lowly place in earth’s stormy sea, it may not be at the battle’s front my harvest field so wide where I may labor through life’s Lord will have need of me. But if, by a still, small short day for Jesus, the Crucified. So trusting my all voice he calls to paths that I do not know, I’ll to thy tender care, and knowing thou lovest me, I’ll answer, dear Lord, with my hand in thine: I’ll go do thy will with a heart sincere: I’ll be what you want where you want me to go. me to be. 2. Perhaps today there are loving words which Jesus [Chorus] would have me speak; There may be now in the I’ll go where you want me to go, dear Lord, Over paths of sin some wand’rer whom I should seek. O mountain or plain or sea; I’ll say what you want me Savior, if thou wilt be my guide, Tho dark and rug- to say, dear Lord; I’ll be what you want me to be. ged the way, my voice shall echo the message sweet: Text: Mary Brown, 1856-1918 I’ll say what you want me to say. Music: Carrie E. Rounsefell, 1861-1930 1 Table of Contents (801) 240-6856 or (801) 240-0322 (800) 453-3860 ext. 2-6856 or 2-0322 (toll free) NOTE: Please contact coordinators listed for information regarding these opportunities Missionary Training Center (MTC) Questions: (801) 422-8634 • Missionary Department Openings...... 2 Travel and Visa Questions: • Dental Care Services...... 3 (801) 240-5111 • Stake Young Single Adult Program...... 4 • Visitors’ Centers & Historic Sites...... 4 • Family and Church History Headquarters Mission...5 • Auditing Department...... 6 • Brigham Young University - Hawaii...... 6 • Church Education System...... 6 • Family History Department...... 7 • Farmland Reserve Church-Service Missionary...... 8 • Human Resources Department...... 8 • Information & Communication...... 9 • Military Relations...... 9 • Music Department...... 9 • Office of Communication Services...... 9 • Office of General Counsel...... 9 • Polynesian Cultural Center...... 10 • Public Affairs Department...... 12 • Publishing Services Department...... 12 • Recreational Properties...... 13 • Security Department...... 13 • Self-Reliance Services/PEF...... 13 • Special Projects Department...... 14 • Temple Department...... 15 • Temporal Affairs Department...... 16 • Translation Department/Publishing Services Department...... 17 • Welfare Services...... 17 • Misc.: Non-Missionary Opportunities (China Teachers)...... 18 • Estimated Monthly Mission Cost...... 19 • Online Missionary Recommend Instructions...... 21

General Information Information provided in the Senior Missionary Opportunities Bulletin relates to members living in Canada and the United States. Members in other parts of the world may use this bulletin for general ideas about missionary service opportunities and costs. Senior Missionary Services, Missionary Department Office hours: Mon-Fri, 8 A.M.—5 P.M. (Mountain Time) Senior Missionary Website: www.lds.org/seniormissionaries General Questions: (801) 240-6741 (800) 453-3860 ext. 2-6741 General E-mail: [email protected] Missionary Insurance Questions: (801) 578-5650 (800) 777-1647 (toll free) Website: www.dmba.com/ssmp Medical Questions: This may result in some prospective missionaries not being able to serve in some locations of the world. If your RECOMMENDATION & MISSIONARY preferance is to serve outside of VISA your own country, you may want to contact a nurse in the Prospective full-time senior missionaries are Senior Missionary Services to discuss your medical encouraged to state their preferences on the condition. 801-240-0322. missionary recommendation form for missionary service. However, they should be willing to serve OPENINGS BY where called. Full-time senior missionaries are DEPARTMENT assigned by the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and called by the President of the Church. MISSIONARY DEPARTMENT Missionary Recommendation Coordinator: Elder Dee R. Ritchie Email: [email protected] Coordinator: Elder Henry If you are thinking about serving a full-time mission, Gustafson Email: henry.gustafson@ldschurch. org meet with your bishop to start the recommendation Tel: (800) 453-3860 (801-240-9739 or 801-240-3022) process. The time it takes to complete the recommendation depends on the couple’s or the senior Senior missionary couples may serve in member and sister’s ability to complete all of the recommendation leader support, visitors’ centers, mission offices, medical requirements. Once all requirements are completed, assignments, military relations, and more. the stake president submits the recommendation to Member and Leader Support (MLS) the Missionary Department. Once submitted, it may take three to four weeks to process the Member and leader support (MLS) is the most recommendation before you receive your call. Some common type of assignment for senior missionary situations may delay the process (medical exams, couples called to serve under the direction of the mission procedures and so forth). president. This assignment encourages couples to share the gospel, reactivate and rescue less-active members, Passport & Missionary Visa retain new converts, strengthen young single adults, and Obtaining a passport does not guarantee you will serve support local leaders in struggling wards, branches, and in a foreign mission. However, if your preference is to districts. Couples also provide a great and lasting serve in a foreign country and you indicate this on your influence on younger missionaries serving within a recommendation, you may consider applying for (or mission. Only couples may serve as member and renewing) a passport. The passport is the first step to leadership support missionaries. We have needs for acquire a missionary visa and may significantly member and leader support couples to serve in the USA decrease the time it takes to process your visa. and around the world. If the Twelve assign you to a foreign country, it may Mission Office Couples take two to five months to obtain a missionary visa Senior missionary couples with experience using after you receive your mission call. The Church Travel Microsoft Word and Excel are needed to serve as office Department will work with you to obtain your visa. couples. Couples are needed to serve in mission office Medical Restrictions assignments around the world to allow mission presidents A medical evualuation will be made of all prospective to minister and focus on missionaries (instead of senior missionaries. administrative duties). We have an 2 urgent need for office couples to serve in the Foreign language skills are needed in many locations. USA and around the world. There is currently an urgent need for Spanish Office assignments include secretary to the mission speaking couples. Consideration of possible president, financial secretary, apartment administrators, assignments may take into account languages vehicle fleet administrators, and referral secretaries. In previously learned as a missionary, even though some addition, senior missionaries with office assignments may brush-up may be needed. help with member and leader support (MLS) assignments If you are going to a country where another language in the evenings and on weekends. is spoken, you may participate in one-on-one Urgent Needs for Senior Couples language-tutoring sessions (whether or not a The missionary assignments below are urgent needs for the Church and are hard to fill because couples must have sufficient health and funds to serve in these locations. If you are interested in being considered for these assignments, please call 801-240-6741 for more information. Est. Cost Language Location (USD) Needed per month India New Delhi (OFC) $2,545 English Botswana (OFC) $2,680 English DR Congo Kinshasa French or (MLS) $3,330 English Vanuatu/New Caledonia (MLS) $3,080 French OFC = Mission Office MLS = Member and Leader Support

Current Needs:

International • Africa • Latin America • Eastern Europe • Pacific

United States • Arkansas • Arizona • California • Georgia • Illinois • Iowa • Michigan • Mississippi • Missouri • New Mexico • New York • Ohio • Oregon • Pennsylvania • Texas • West Virginia • Washington State

Missions in the United States and Canada All missions within the United States and Canada need senior missionaries to serve in member and leader support as well as mission offices. Some missions can accommodate couples who want to live in their fifth- wheel trailer, travel trailer, or motor home. Foreign Missions language is required). These sessions are available via and by helping current full-time missionaries in areas Skype and/or in-person visits at the MTC. You may where access to dental care is limited. In Guatemala, we participate in online tutoring both before entering the MTC also care for children ages 3 - 18 from orphanages and after arriving in the mission field. throughout Guatemala City. Missionaries serving in an English-speaking assignment in Details: a foreign country may wish to learn the native language to • General dentist with clinical experience in help them share the gospel, interact with neighbors, shop, third-molar surgery, endodontics, and and participate in their ward or branch. After receiving a restorative dentistry needed. mission call, interested seniors may request one-on-one • General dental office management and basic computer skills required. tutoring by following the instructions included in their call • Spanish-speaking for Central America, but fluency is packet or by e-mailing a request to not required. [email protected]. • Current state dental license and passport required. Health Care Professionals • Humanitarian dentistry experience with portable Elder Gregory A. Schwitzer, M.D. equipment helpful, but not required. Local: (801) 240-5271 Pacific Islands - Tonga and Samoa Toll Free: (800) 453-3860 ext. 2-5271 Coordinator: Elder John Gerritsen, D.D.S. There is an immediate and ongoing need for MDs, DOs, Tel: (801) 209-2481 RNs, PAs, NPs, and mental health counselors to advise Email: [email protected] mission presidents on missionary health. Assignments are There is continuing need for licensed dentists to direct available in Church areas worldwide. Live-at-home service and provide dental services in Tonga, and Samoa (both is also available. Duties include teaching preventative English-speaking) dental clinics. Dental treatment is health care to missionaries and contacting missionaries done in modern established, five to seven-chair clinics. and mission presidents either in-person or by telephone. Services are provided to local missionaries, prospective DENTAL CARE SERVICES missionaries, needy LDS Church members, local Central America Area - Guatemala City orphanages, and others needing dental help. Missions of Philippines Area - Manila 12, 18, or 23 months are available. Rural care using Coordinator: Elder Richard L. Call, D.M.D., M.S., portable dental units is done periodically. Telephone: (303) 469-8030 Senior Sisters (age 40+) Email: [email protected] Senior sisters called to serve in North The Central America Area and Philippines Area needs a America are required to take their own car dentist to serve a welfare services dental mission. This except for the Family and Church History mission is focused on preparing young men and women to Headquarters Mission. serve full-time missions by assisting with their dental care,

3 Some of the assignments have limited availability. processing and spreadsheet experience is Please contact the coordinators listed in this bulletin needed. for more information about possible opportunities. Senior sisters serve as office Please remember – missionary assignments are sisters, only made by members of the Twelve. Polynesian Cultural seamstresses, and helping with Center tourist Senior sisters are responsible for their own shops and other responsibilities mission costs, which are roughly 65 percent of the (PCC) requested amounts shown for couples. Senior sis-ters (age (Limited by the PCC. Openings available 40+) may serve full-time missions for 12, 18, or 23 Availability) for months. The several positions beginning in Church will pay travel costs to foreign mission assignments May 2016. of 18 or 23 months. Six-month assignments are not Nauvoo (Seasonal) A few senior sisters serve in the Nauvoo available for senior sisters. There are no humanitarian or Submit requests in Historical Site. Sisters perform proselyting assignments available for senior sisters. September or October in live for Assignments shows each evening from April to Available Assignment Description the following year. September. Good physical health (Limited Availability Most CES assignments are filled and - by 2016 season already memorization skills are required. Church Education couples. Still, there are a few filled) System openings for qualified senior sisters to teach Senior sisters are needed to (CES) seminary serve in (Limited and institute classes. The ability missions outside of the U.S. and Availability) to relate Canada. to teens and young adults is Self-Reliance Service is for 12, 18 or 23 critical. Services/ PEF months. For more information please see Employment Resource Centers Self- assist the Reliance Services/PEF section on Employment Resource unemployed and underemployed page 12. to find Centers employment. This mission offers opportunities for Family and Church full-time senior sisters (including History live-at- Headquarters Mission home). Basic computer skills are in needed, and family history research experience will be helpful. Whether serving from home or Family History abroad Records senior sisters gather, organize, and capture Preservation/Family valuable genealogical records using digital History Support camera equipment. MDs, DOs, RNs, PAs, NPs, and mental health counselors advise mission presidents on missionary health. Medical Assignments are available in Church areas worldwide. Live-at-home service is also available. Senior sisters may serve in the following: mission secretary, finance secretary, housing coordinator, materials secretary, referrals secretary, Mission Office communications manager, and travel secretary. Basic word Sister missionaries with previous • Hungary • Norway * ordinance worker experience are • Scotland/Ireland needed • Sweden * in some temples. Please see the Temple Visitors’ Centers & Historic Sites Temple Callings Department section below for Contact: Sister Taylor or Sister Goodman additional Local: (801) 240-2489 (Very Limited information and for a listing of Email: [email protected] Availability) temples where senior sister missionaries Couples are needed to serve at visitors’ centers and might historic sites. These assignments last 6, 12, 18, and 23 serve. months, depending on the visitors’ center or historic site. Women’s Auxiliary Under the direction of a mission Missionary Recommendation Forms may be submitted at president, senior sisters search any time, but for those interested in serving at one of the Specialist Program for, historic sites listed below, see the recommended (Limited fellowship, and rescue less-active Availability) members. application times. Missionaries should be in good health and able to perform physically demanding activities: Stake Young Single Adult Program Contact: Elder Steve Walker missionaries spend most of their six-hour shift each day Local: (801)-278-3010 standing and walking, and missionaries at historic sites Email: [email protected] repeatedly climb steep stairs and are outside in summer Couples are needed in Europe to work with young single weather. adults as the day-to-day coordinators of Stake Young Historic Nauvoo Single Adult Programs. Responsibilities include training Couples are currently needed to serve at Historic and mentoring young single adults and working with Nauvoo beginning in spring of 2016. These them in finding, converting, reactivating, and retaining. assignments are for 18 months. If interested Senior couples work closely with the stake president, in serving in the 2016 season please submit Missionary mission president, Institute coordinator, and young missionaries. Unless otherwise noted (*), speaking ability Recommendation Forms as soon as possible. in the local non- Note: Teamsters are currently needed in Nauvoo. English language is not required, but it is helpful. Experience driving teams of horses, mules, or oxen is required. Missionaries must be in good health and be Couples are needed in the following: able to perform physically demanding duties: lifting 50 • Belgium/Netherlands lbs; enduring outdoor weather in all seasons; and • England frequently climbing in and out of wagons. Missionaries • Germany * serving as teamsters will also interact with guests, which • Finland* includes proselyting.

4 Mormon Handcart Historic Sites Library, the , the Church History Couples are currently needed to serve at Mormon Museum, the Joseph Smith Handcart Historic Sites beginning in spring of Memorial Building and the Church Office Building. 2016. These assignments are for six months. If Nearly 70% of our senior missionaries assist staff and interested in serving in the 2016 season please submit guests of the Family History Department with research, Missionary hosting, records corrections and Family Tree and Recommendation Forms as soon as possible. Almost all FamilySearch training. Most of our other senior couples are required to bring an R.V. because housing is missionaries assist staff and guests of the Church History very limited. Missionaries should be in good health and Department, working to preserve and expand Church able to perform physically demanding activities. historical collections and making them available to Missionaries will spend most of their six-hour shift each Church members and guests. A few of our senior day outside and assisting with trekking activities, which missionaries are assigned to support the efforts of the include walking more than three miles a day on historic Missionary and other Church Headquarters trails. Departments. Historic Site Housing for our away-from-home missionaries is located within blocks of . Both away-from-home Couples are currently needed to serve at Cove Fort Historic Site beginning in spring of 2016. Most and live-at-home missionaries attend assignments are for six months and require couples to bring an R.V. There is limited housing available for couples assigned to 18-month missions. If interested in serving in the 2016 season please submit Missionary Recommendation Forms as soon as possible. Chapel Open House Program Area Coordinators Contact: Jason Mitchell Local: (801) 240-0659 Email: [email protected] The Missionary Department is seeking a Spanish-speaking senior missionary couple to serve as Area Coordinators of the Chapel Open House Program in the South America South Area. Area Coordinators’ responsibilities include training senior couples assigned to coordinate events in missions throughout the area, training local ward and branch leaders in preparation for the open house events, and training sister missionaries as they give tours of the chapel and teach basic principles of the gospel using portable displays designed to create a visitors’ center experience. This is a new and highly successful missionary opportunity! Needed by: Mid-May or Early June 2016 Location: South America South Area, Argentina Buenos Aires North Mission Length of Service: 18 or 24 months FAMILY AND CHURCH HISTORY HEADQUARTERS MISSION (IN SALT LAKE CITY) Coordinator: Elder Terry Carlson Local: (801) 240-5892 Toll Free: (800) 453-3860 ext. 2- 5892 E-mail: [email protected] Come help us hasten the work of preparing a worthy record of our families and of the Lord’s Church in this dispensation! We urgently need full-time senior missionary couples and single sisters (age 40 and above), including those living nearby, to come and join the more than 400 senior missionar-ies now serving in this unique Mission, here at the Square Campus. This beautiful campus includes the Family History and participate in two special missionary-only Church • Assist with preparing articles and other publications. branches, forming many new friendships. The Mission also Requires training in historical research and writing. maintains a free medical clinic, staffed by doctorsand nurses, Knowledge of Latter-day Saint for our senior missionaries. Serving here is truly a spiritual or American history, historical documents and the feast, with frequent opportunities to attend 10 local Temples, Church History research your own family history and enjoy special Church Library indexes is desired. events on Temple Archive/Library: Square and at the Conference Center. • Assist with the preservation of documents and other Please click on this link to view a video of Elder and information, particularly for help with the Joseph Sister Karren sharing their experiences in this Mission. Smith Papers. Requires training in archival Your life and Church experiences will qualify you for the activities, including paper and digital conservation, work. However, Church History and Family History are preser-vation, organization and control. increasingly accomplished through technology, and our Genealogy: missionaries frequently use, or help guests use, comput- • Assist with preparing biographical information on ers. You don’t have to be a computer expert to serve here, Mormon pioneer immigrants with Scandinavian but you should be willing and able to learn. And, we roots. Requires genealogist certifica-tion, with provide the training while helping you research your own background in Scandinavian research and family tree. patronymics. Miracles happen here every day – witness lives change as you help guests discover their ancestors and Church • Assist with preparation of biographical information heritage. Come be a part of it! to support Church publications and databases. The Mission offers 12-, 18- and 23-month opportunities Requires genealogist certification, with some for full-time senior missionaries and full-time live-at- background in LDS historical sources on early home missionaries. If you think you might enjoy full-time Church members. missionary service here, please contact Elder Carlson, • Assist with preparation of biographical information our to support Mission Executive Secretary, before you submit your Church publications and databases. Requires strong missionary recommen-dation. genealogy background and experience and If you are unable to serve a full-time mission at this time, familiarity with research standards, to prepare please investigate Church Service Missionary genealogical and biographical data on persons in opportunities in our Mission by contacting our LDS Church history. Church Service Missionary Coordinator at: (801) 240- Asset Tracking: 7803. • Assist, using asset management software, the Additional Current Needs tracking of computers, other expensive equipment, The Church History Department is seeking qualified and software licenses, plus tracking and authorizing full-time senior mis-sionaries for the following Church computer cascades (upgrades). Requires computer History Library Special Projects positions: skills, familiarity with asset management software, History: and ability to identify financially significant issues. 5