Does anyone know why there are no proselytizing missions for single sisters?

[Sunday21]

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?

[Palerider]

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.

[pam]

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.

[The Folk Prophet]

Add to that question...how come single senior brethren can't serve missions?

[Vort]

We just had another missionary companionship added to our ward, and they are two senior sisters.

[Sunday21]

I think you guys are right, it must be the physical demands that have caused the change in policy

[Roseslipper]

Wow how do you find out if this is true or not?

[Vort]

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?

[classylady]

 

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

[Vort]

 

 

 

 

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.

[classylady]

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.