NeedsAhand

Its amazing the change in his mental capacity to do things, his focus, his ability to recall things, his whole sense of who he is, what the church is about and where he wants to go in life. All of this since I have know him which has been a majority of his life has never really been there. He tells me the spirit has really helped him combat everything he has been told he was and I don't doubt him, even when he was on his medication he still seemed not all there but now I truely notice something special about him. People are always asking him if he is a RM, or when he is about to serve, I've been there with him when people tell him he just has this glow about him, that he should go because people sense a special spirit about him and I agree. He is living the commandments, actually a lot stricter then anyone I know and so I know he is serious about doing the right thing. What if he has been healed, has had a confirmation and truely was told by the spirit that he should serve a mission, should I still support him?

I have a really good friend who has kind of had a bad life growing up, family divorced, got mixed up in drugs which people including myself believe he used it to try and self medicate. He is 25, he has been telling his family and church that he is going to serve a mission since 19 but because of mental problems including being diagnosed with depression, anxiety, bi-polar and yes even schizophrenia this has prevented him from serving. During his long battle with trying to cope without medication he believed that he needed to committ almost every sin you could think of so that he could better help the people in the after life that committed the same sins accept the gospel. Alot of this sinning he has done within the last year, and ironically he now he feels ready to go on a mission because after he did this he said a lot of his symptoms from his mental problems have gone away because he has been really going through the repentance process. He still wants to serve a mission and he says he has never felt more forgiven then he does now and that God allows exceptions to his rules sometimes and he feels this might be one of them. He wont tell his Bishop about anything because he beleives its more importantly between him and God and so he is going to turn in his papers. He really does seem better and there is a real change that I have seen taken place in him, actually an enormous change and I wouldn't be surprised if God has forgiven him and what he says is true but what should I tell him. What if he is telling the truth and he has had a confirmation that he can still serve a mission? Thanks for your advice.