Can my son(15), recently diagnosed with juvenile onset glaucoma, serve a typical 2 year LDS mission? He requires daily medication and eye drops.
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I don't see why not, especially if the medication is keeping his condition from getting worse. He would probably be limited to serving someplace where he could easily obtain his medications, but I don't think that this would prevent him from serving.
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Those are some serious meds and will cause blindness if not taken regularly. As long as he will be close to a hospital if conditions warrant it.
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This is not a question for AB. This is a question for your Bishop. Nobody here can answer that question unless your bishop or a member of the first presidency or quorum of the twelve are hanging out here. Even if they were, they'd probably still tell you to talk to your Bishop.
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I can't claim to speak for the church, but I recently spoke with an elder who came down with the exact same thing while on the first six months, and took a few months out to get well and medicated and then he returned to the field.
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The Church is very realistic. They have every potential missionary go through multiple types of physicals. Even though I am a doctor and a member of the church, I cannot even begin to tell you 'yay' or 'nay'. Your priesthood leader along with the doctors in accompany with the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve will decide if he can go, and where. There are many different types of missions. Maybe your sons condition is a blessing that will help send him where he is meant to be...whether that is in the mission field or home.
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I'm willing to take a few hits in the negative answering this question. ALL religious ministry, when traveling to another part of the world, while considered good, is harmful. Why don't you just let people believe what they already believe and stop trying to convert people. So what, you want to 'save' people's immortal souls. Well here's a question for you. What if you're wrong and you wasted your whole life living a lie and spreading a lie onto others? Kind of ironic when you think about it. <Edited by Richard Shines: Flaming comment removed.> Richard Shines
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While filling out an application to serve a mission, the potential missionary is to list all medical conditions and treatments. The First Presidency and the Missionary Department will decide if your son can serve a full-time proselytizing mission (and if so, where) or if he's to serve a different kind of mission (one of my friends got called to serve a full-time mission serving in the local family history library). Medical conditions do not automatically rule out full-time proselytizing missions. One elder in my mission took medication to prevent epilepsy related seizures. My cousin was relocated to a state-side mission due to a medical condition that arose while he was serving.
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