Sunday21 Posted April 27, 2015 Report Share Posted April 27, 2015 Dies anyone know why the church no longer accepts senior sisters for proselytizing missions? This is a change from previous policy. Were there problems with the senior sisters? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palerider Posted April 27, 2015 Report Share Posted April 27, 2015 Dies anyone know why the church no longer accepts senior sisters for proselytizing missions? This is a change from previous policy. Were there problems with the senior sisters?Unless it was due to the physical demands of serving in that capacity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pam Posted April 27, 2015 Report Share Posted April 27, 2015 Interesting. I was just talking to a friend of mine a couple of weeks ago about her mission as a senior single missionary. She said she was so glad they kept her busy in the mission home. She was out in the field for a couple of weeks and couldn't handle the demands of it. They weren't assigned cars and had to walk or take public transportation. She said she just couldn't do it like she used to when she was younger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Folk Prophet Posted April 27, 2015 Report Share Posted April 27, 2015 Add to that question...how come single senior brethren can't serve missions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vort Posted April 27, 2015 Report Share Posted April 27, 2015 We just had another missionary companionship added to our ward, and they are two senior sisters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunday21 Posted April 28, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 28, 2015 I think you guys are right, it must be the physical demands that have caused the change in policy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roseslipper Posted May 4, 2015 Report Share Posted May 4, 2015 Wow how do you find out if this is true or not? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vort Posted May 4, 2015 Report Share Posted May 4, 2015 Other than the bare assertion, I see no evidence that this is true. I see the opposite evidence, in fact, given that a senior sister pair has just been assigned to our ward. Does anyone have a reference to establish this assertion? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
classylady Posted May 5, 2015 Report Share Posted May 5, 2015 (edited) Other than the bare assertion, I see no evidence that this is true. I see the opposite evidence, in fact, given that a senior sister pair has just been assigned to our ward. Does anyone have a reference to establish this assertion? Vort, this is what I found on LDS.org: Senior Missionary Opportunities. " Senior sisters are responsible for their own mission costs, which are roughly 65 percent of the amounts shown for couples. Senior sisters pay their rent and utilities directly to the landlord/utility. Senior sisters (age 40+) may serve full-time missions for 12, 18, or 23 months. The Church will pay travel costs to foreign mission assignments of 18 or 23 months. Six-month assignments are not available for senior sisters. There are no humanitarian or proselyting assignments available for senior sisters. " https://www.lds.org/bc/content/ldsorg/callings/missionary/senior-missionary/senior-missionary-opportunities.pdf My husband and I have been looking at Senior Missionary opportunities, so I had read this about senior sister missionaries several months ago. Perhaps, there is some leeway that Mission Presidents have in assigning the Senior Sister missionaries? Edited May 5, 2015 by classylady Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vort Posted May 5, 2015 Report Share Posted May 5, 2015 Vort, this is what I found on LDS.org: Senior Missionary Opportunities. " Senior sisters are responsible for their own mission costs, which are roughly 65 percent of the amounts shown for couples. Senior sisters pay their rent and utilities directly to the landlord/utility. Senior sisters (age 40+) may serve full-time missions for 12, 18, or 23 months. The Church will pay travel costs to foreign mission assignments of 18 or 23 months. Six-month assignments are not available for senior sisters. There are no humanitarian or proselyting assignments available for senior sisters. " https://www.lds.org/bc/content/ldsorg/callings/missionary/senior-missionary/senior-missionary-opportunities.pdf My husband and I have been looking at Senior Missionary opportunities, so I had read this about senior sister missionaries several months ago. Perhaps, there is some leeway that Mission Presidents have in assigning the Senior Sister missionaries? Does that mean that currently there are no open proselyting assignments, or that all proselyting assignments for senior sisters have been done away? It's possible that the two sisters assigned to our ward are service-only missionaries. I have not asked them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
classylady Posted May 5, 2015 Report Share Posted May 5, 2015 My understanding is that all proselyting assignments for senior sisters have been done away. It is in the general section of information for Senior Sisters. After the quote I listed above, there is then a big list of different assignments for the senior sisters. The list changes from time to time, just as it does for the Senior Couple opportunities. It has been that way for at least over a year. That's when my husband and I first started looking at the Senior opportunities. Vort 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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