President Gordon B. Hinckley encouraged each missionary to develop these traits while serving a mission.
1- A testimony of the living reality of God, our Eternal Father, and His Son, Jesus Christ. (John 17:3).
2- A greatly enlarged understanding of the gospel (D&C 50:24).
3- A love for the people with whom you labor.
4- A greater love and appreciation for your parents.
5- An understanding of the meaning of hard work.
6- An enlarged understanding of the meaning and true worth and value of personal virtue (D&C 121:45).
7- Increased poise, the ability to meet people, to converse with them, to talk with them.
8- Courage to act.
9- The faith to do. The faith to try.
10- And finally, the humility to pray.
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