Sweethearts with a Mission

Drawing on decades of teaching missionary preparation and his own service as a mission president and senior missionary, Randy Bott addresses the real questions retired couples ask before serving a full-time mission: finances, health, leaving family, learning languages, and keeping pace. Warm, encouraging, and grounded in scripture and General Authority counsel, this guide dismantles the fears that keep able couples home and paints senior missionary service as the joyful capstone of a faithful life.

• Answers the exact questions every hesitant couple asks—cost, health, family, language—one chapter at a time
• Written by a beloved BYU missionary-prep teacher who taught thousands of missionaries and served as a mission president
• Reframes retirement not as shuffleboard but as the joyful capstone of a life of service
• Full of real mission-field stories: the gift of tongues, answered prayers, and couples who couldn't stop serving

“You're sweethearts with a mission. You have a special work to do. You're a treasure in God's service. Because you're faithful, good and true.”

Perfect for a retired or near-retirement Latter-day Saint couple weighing whether to submit papers for a full-time senior mission.