Bruce R. McConkie on Missionary Work
Elder Bruce R. McConkie wrote the following while serving as a mission president in Australia:
”I am called of God. My authority is above that of the kings of the earth. By revelation I have been selected as a personal representative of the Lord Jesus Christ. He is my Master and he has chosen me to represent him. To stand in his place, to say and do what he himself would say and do if he personally were ministering to the very people to whom he has sent me. My voice is his voice, and my acts are his acts; my words are his words and my doctrine is his doctrine. My commission is to do what he wants done. To say what he wants said. To be a living modern witness in word and deed of the divinity of his great and marvelous latter-day work.” Bruce R. McConkie.
Does anyone have a source in Elder McConkie’s writings or speeches for this Missionary Commission?
Hi Janice,
I’m not sure about the source other than what I posted. It was probably something he said as a Mission President that was written down by a missionary and spread that way.
Found this source on the following website
http://ldsmag.com/ldsmag/missionaryjournal/020927missionaries.html
(How Great Is My Calling [address delivered while serving as president of the Australian Mission, 1961–64]).
This one also:
http://birghtsideofthings.blogspot.com/2013/02/missionary-work.html
My Missionary Commission
by Elder Bruce R. McConkie
From The Harvester Page 6
Originally titled: My 1963 Missionary Commission