Dinners with Mission Leaders

In 2023, there are 123 couples who have been called as mission leaders around the world. These are amazing people! As we’ve had the opportunity to learn more about them, Kimberly and I have often wondered how we ended up on the same list as these incredible couples. 

When the mission leader assignments began to be made in The Church News, we felt a desire to try to meet as many of these couples as we could before we go to the mission leader seminar at the end of June. We began to text or email other mission leaders to see if they would like to meet for dinner to get to know each other.

Our first dinner was with Davis and Asialene Smith and Rob and Debbie Young. After meeting them in early February, we had such a great experience, the desire to meet other leaders only grew, and driving home we said, “Why not try to meet as many of these new mission leaders as we can?” We’ve had so much fun meeting these couples and learning from them. They are a really impressive bunch, and we’ve often wondered how the two of us ended up on the same list as all of them.  

While we have just met these great couples, we feel very connected to them. We are all sharing the same experience, and it is a powerful one. One that has helped unite us and build strong connections to these new friends. We already love and admire them, and hope these friendships will continue a long time into the future.