Sunday, July 6, 2025

A Continuance of a Full-Time Mission in the Spirit World?

      Elder Lynn Arave, left, with 3 other members of the Bath, England Mission District in late 1973.


THERE is some evidence from my own family's history and at least one other -- that at least some former full-time missionaries now in the Spirit World are continuing to proselyte former members of the same nations where they served on Earth.

My Grandfather Ray Rigby was still teaching Canadians in the Spirit World, a few years after his passing. That was also where he served during the World War I time period -- in Canada -- on a full-time mission. (I know this because of a special spiritual experience my mother had in the Logan Temple.)

One of my sisters said a member of her ward told a similar tale in her sacrament meeting involving a continued missionary effort in the Spirit World.


                                   My grandfather, Ray Rigby, on his Canadian Mission in about 1918.


(Now, everyone apparently speaks the same, single language in the Spirit World-- Adamic Tongue -- and so no special language skills are needed there, but knowing more about the national orientation of Spirit World residents and having an extra special love for them, may help in the work there.)

So, for myself someday, I may find myself teaching Southwest England residents the Gospel when I arrive in the Spirit World ...

That would be Mission Part II.