“It is true that the Lord has performed and still does perform miracles with the missionary material we send him. Mormons and non-Mormons alike have marveled at the development which has come during brief missionary terms to the multitude of young men whose first public utterances were abbreviated, halting words of thanks for the funds raised for them at their farewell entertainments. Our Heavenly Father is especially good to those whose opportunities for training are limited.

“At the same time he is continually blessing us with better means of learning and greater facilities for training, to the end that we may be really prepared to represent him. There is now scarcely a case where the missionary may conscientiously plead lack of opportunity to be prepared.”

– Presiding Bishopric, May 1929