In this very special episode of Called Sister, Sarah Verhoef interviews her daughter, Sœur Kora Verhoef, who is currently serving in the Paris France Mission.

Kora shares what it’s really like to be a missionary right now: the long wait to turn in her mission papers, the challenge of making her mission her own, the surprise of realizing that missionaries are still just regular people, and the deep personal conversion that has come through prayer, scripture study, and learning to truly love the Book of Mormon.

This conversation is honest, funny, sacred, and full of the Spirit.

If you are preparing to serve, missing your mission, parenting a missionary, or simply needing to remember that God still has a plan for you, this episode is for you.

Key themes in this episode:

God’s timing in the mission prep process

personal revelation and growth

missionaries as real people

loving the Book of Mormon

faith as “putting one foot in front of the other”

what it means to wear Christ’s name over your heart

If this episode blesses you, share it with a sister who needs it.

Timestamps

0:00 Welcome to Called Sister
0:29 Introducing Sœur Kora Verhoef in the Paris France Mission
0:58 Kora introduces herself and her mission in French
2:10 Did she always want to serve a mission?
2:28 Why turning in mission papers took over a year
3:15 Advice for women struggling through the mission papers process
5:28 What surprised her most about missionary life
6:03 “Missionaries are just regular people”
7:10 Being yourself vs becoming who God needs you to be
8:15 How teaching others strengthens your own testimony
9:23 Prayer, scripture study, and learning to love the Book of Mormon
12:40 “You can find every answer in the Book of Mormon”
14:00 When she realized: “I love the Book of Mormon”
14:49 What has been hardest: making the mission her own
16:00 Growing up hearing everyone else’s mission stories
16:53 “Nobody else has had the same mission as me”
18:25 Advice to women thinking about serving a mission
19:00 “Get off your butt and go do it”
19:20 Reading the New Testament as a missionary
20:20 The apostles as missionaries
20:55 Acts 5:41–42 in French
21:58 Wearing Christ’s name over her heart
22:40 Faith is putting one foot in front of the other
23:03 Closing thoughts and farewell

Amazing Quotes

“Missionaries are just regular people.”

“Just because somebody has a different title or a different calling doesn’t mean they’re a different person.”

“Sometimes the ‘yourself’ that you want to be isn’t the yourself that God needs you to be.”

“As I share my experience, I’m able to remember my experience.”

“I love the Book of Mormon.”

“It was only recently that I realized: I love my mission.”

“Nobody else has had the same mission as me.”

“Get off your butt and go do it.”

“I get to hold His name over my heart every single day.”

“Faith is just putting one foot in front of the other.”

A few more:

“God’s got a plan for me.”

“It’s been a blessing to look back and say, ‘Oh, that’s what that was for.’”

“We don’t need to be the perfect missionary by the end of the mission.”
“Even when I don’t feel worthy of it, putting on my badge helps me out a little bit.”

What It’s Really Like to Be a Sister Missionary Right Now | Paris France Mission

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