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So what specifically about your missions prepared you for your future education? We certainly would encourage missionaries to not only utilize the background of a mission, which is just foundational and so much of the spiritual side, but also the planning and the goal setting, and all of those things are so, so important. But we would also hope that they would think about how to be trained, how to get education, how to prepare themselves to provide for their families. Elder Holland wanted to teach. And he was teaching right out of--after he got out of college, he was teaching institute and that. But he got an opportunity to go to an exceptionally great school and get increased education. And that just blessed and prepared him. So opportunities to advance yourself in education, when you take those, regardless of what you're trying to do, are going to be really important. We had a mission president who really believed that and really taught it. He didn't care what we did, but he wanted us to do something and to be serious about it and be as good as you could be at it. And we both left the mission feeling that. The Lord can keep His arms around you early and late and all along the way. But we all--these missionaries need to go home and realize that we're interested. We, the Brethren, we, the Church, we, the angels in heaven, are interested in a missionary forever, for all of their life. And a mission is just the start of that.

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Elders Holland and Cook share how they were taught by their mission president to value education and how their interests in education were influenced by their missionary service.
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