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by Angeles on May 12th, 2005

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Can a prospective missionary get married before he leaves for a mission?

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  • by Glenn Blaylock on May 12th, 2005

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    I assume that you two are still in your late teens to early twenties. In this case, generally, he should be single if he goes on a mission. Once he marries you, his responsibility is to take care of his family. That means earning a living. Few people can earn a living while serving a full-time mission.

    Now, if you two would be independently wealthy and not have to earn a living, then there is something else to keep in mind. Many missionaries leave girl-friends/fiances behind when they start their missions. I can't remember the exact statistics, but the vast majority of these women wind up not waiting for their missionaries. They get lonely, and move on to someone else. Of those women that do wait, many decide not to marry their missionaries. The couple just grows apart over the two years of the mission and find that they are no longer compatible. So, very few missionaries actually marry the girl they leave behind. Do you really want to subject a marriage to these kinds of stresses?

    Of course, if money is no concern, you might be able to get married and serve a mission together. However, if you are wealthy enough to do this it would probably be better for you two to take some time to get used to living with each other before you actually went on a mission. Additionally, if you two are as young as I think you are, then the church might not want risk the possibility of you getting pregnant while you are on you mission. (Having the responsibility of raising children can be very disruptive ones ability to fulfill a full-time mission.)

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  • by illyena on January 28th, 2011

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    No, if he gets married, he is no longer elligble to serve a mission, unless you both serve a mission when you are older.

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  • by carphi on March 24th, 2011

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    Not if he is a single guy about to serve. Couple missionaries serve a couples and you can be a older (much older) missionary who has been married before or even never did marry, but you will not usually serve a regular mission, going door to door etc but a temple or service mission or other type of mission, it would be hard for the young men/women to relate to a now single person on a mission who had been through marriage when they have not yet etc but missions are not ruled out for those who are in that category and wish to. Everyone wither 19 or 21 for women or older regardless of which type of mission they are called to must be interviewed and found worthy to serve and their are other guidelines which are following depending on what type you serve too. Couple missionaries fund their own missions whereas single missionaries are funded by their parents/wards/tithing or funds they raised for it or all of the above. Couple missionaries follow some of the same rules as the young men/women but not everything as they are married and can be together and their schedules are not quite the same.

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