Rekindling the missionary spirit at institute

LOGAN, Utah — Returned

Latter-day Saint missionaries felt their mission fire rekindled at the

Logan, Utah, Institute of Religion Sunday evening as they listened to Kelend

Mills, supervisor for the church's International Missionary Training

Centers, speak.

As

part of the March 29 fireside arranged by the Institute's Return Missionary

Committee, Mills gave an update on what is happening internationally

with missionary work, and his words about the work brought on a feeling

of nostalgia to many in attendance.

\"I was feeling the feeling of natsukashii,\" Spencer Hernansen, who served in Nagoya, Japan, over a year and a half ago, said.

\"Natsukashii\" means nostalgia in English, Hernansen said. He said he learned from Mills' talk to \"take the gospel back to my people.\"

\"I loved it,\" Ashley Kiefert said of Mills' talk.

\"We should do this every week.\" Kiefert

completed a mission in Ogden, Utah, two months ago, and said she was reminded

that she can still be a missionary from Mills' talk.

Travis

Yeates, who has been home from his mission in Paraguay for five years,

said Mills' message of pausing and taking a look at your life stood out

to him.

\"I've heard (this message) more than once, which means it's probably very important,\" Yeates said.

Mills' showed some pictures of missionaries during his talk, and Yeates said it helped him remember that time of his life.

\"The (missionary) work was very fulfilling — it's special.\"

Ryan Oldroyd served in Fukuoka, Japan, at the same time Mills was mission president in the area.

Oldroyd gathered from Mills' talk the idea that if there is something you should be doing, but are not, you need to change.