ER - in real life

We have about 130 missionaries in our mission. They come from all walks of life. Some arrive full of "vim and vigor" while others have that familiar "deer in the headlights" look. But within a few weeks they galvanize into powerful, faith-filled teachers. From my unique vantage point I can clearly see the hand of God transforming these young men and women into His missionaries.

With this size of a group, it's statistic certainty that a few will end up visiting a hospital's Emergency Room (ER) every now and then. The Church provides wonderful medical resources, including consulting physicians and a medical insurance program for our missionaries. We triage with these resources whenever a missionary is sick or injured.

When one of our missionaries ends up spending a day or two in the hospital, Sister Murray and I respond as if its our own children in the hospital. This reaction is not because a training manual suggested this to be appropriate behavior. Rather it is driven out of pure love for our missionaries. When they suffer, we suffer.