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"I promise you that the time you spend in the mission field, if those years are spent in dedicated service, will yield a greater return on investment than any other two years of your lives. You will come to know what dedication and consecration mean. You will develop a spirit of teamwork. The cankering evil of selfishness will be supplanted by a sense of service to others. You will draw nearer to the Lord than you likely will in any other set of circumstances. You will come to know that without His help you are indeed weak and simple, but with His help, you can accomplish miracles.

You will estabish habits of industry. You will develop a talent for the establishment of goals of will effort. You will learn to work with singleness of purpose. What a tremendous foundation all of this will become for you in your later educational effort and your life's work."

-Gordon B. Hinckley.