My kind of woman

What is my "type" of woman?  I've been asked this many times, but I'm not sure I really know.  But I'll share my thoughts and let you decide.

General Conference October 2012

Of course the big news from this conference was lowering the missionary age-- to 18 years old for male High School graduates and 19 years old for women.  I heard rumors beforehand that President Monson was going to announce something, so of course speculation went flying.  But these sorts of things happen all the time, so I wasn't expecting anything huge.  All the same, this is pretty huge.

I remember that it was during the October conference 2002--exactly 10 years ago--that they raised the bar for missionaries.  Because of this, it made me think about how you can really think of this as a bar being raised for the young adult members of the church.  Of course, you can still go at the old ages--the upper age limit did not change.  But having that earlier time available, I think a lot of members are going to see that as a more convenient time, especially women, and will prepare for their missions that much earlier.