Making the Tough Choice to Serve A Mission
Choosing to serve a mission is a choice many young LDS men and women have to make.
Giving up to two years of your life to serve the Lord was not an easy decision for John Kimball, former Highland rugby player. He turn to Coach Larry Gelwix for advice.
“I remember talking to him about serving a mission one night, and really my thoughts as to why I didn’t think I would go,” Kimball said. “And he said to me something that stuck with me my whole life. ‘You have two years to serve the Lord and the rest of your life to think about it.”
Gelwix told his young player that if was going to serve the lord, he needed to commit to it, and leave it all out on the field.
“And I kind of made that connection between the rugby field then also the mission field. And that’s exactly how I decided to serve,” Kimball said. “I had a fantastic mission. I had an experience on my mission that to this point I think really I could have gone a really different direction in my life if I hadn’t made that decision.”
