The young men of the LDS Church need to have the desire and live worthy to serve a full-time mission, so they can say "to all the world that they, like Joshua of old, have chosen to serve the Lord!"
      Parents have the responsibility to prepare sons to be worthy and have a desire to serve the Lord.
      "We are stewards of those sons, held in reserve for this day. The Lord has entrusted them to us, and we will be held accountable for them."
      Bishops need to begin early, as part of their stewardship, to prepare young men to serve full-time missions.
      "Help them understand Alma's experiment. Plant the seed to serve a mission in their heart. Then have them ask the Lord if it is a good seed. Then, if you help them nourish that seed, it will grow into the miracle of having that young man serve a mission."
      Nothing a young man can do will be any more important than serving a mission.
      "The greatest army of missionaries ever assembled in the history of the world is serving today."