Ayden Wayne will be serving a 2-year mission in Mexico
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Ayden Wayne of Gallatin has been called to serve a two-year mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He will serve in the Mexico, Saltillo Mission. He is the son of Kevin and Angela Wayne of Gallatin.
A recent graduate of Gallatin R-5 High School, Ayden participated in football, wrestling, and track. He said, “I have been involved in the community a lot throughout my years in high school through the various activities I participated in.” Ayden will join over 67,000 missionaries worldwide.
On serving a mission, Ayden said, “There are people out there looking for things to bring them happiness and I know I should share with them the things that bring happiness.” He will sacrifice two years with his family to serve a mission.
Missionaries receive their assignment from LDS headquarters and are sent only to countries where governments allow the church to operate. Missionaries do not request their area of assignment and do not know beforehand whether they will be required to learn a language.
Prior to going to their assigned area, missionaries spend a short period of time at one of 15 missionary training centers throughout the world. There they learn how to teach the gospel in an orderly and clear way and, if necessary, they begin to learn the language of the people they will be teaching.
The largest training center is in Provo, Utah, with additional centers in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, England, Ghana, Guatemala, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, the Philippines, South Africa and Spain.
Missionary schedules and rules are flexible, depending on the culture of the country where missionaries are serving. But a typical missionary day begins by waking at 6:30 a.m. for personal study. The day is spent proselytizing by following up on appointments, visiting homes or meeting people in the street or other public places. Missionaries end their day by 10:30 p.m.
In some parts of the world, missionaries are sent only to serve humanitarian or other specialized missions. Those missionaries do not proselytize.
Missionary work is voluntary. Missionaries fund their own missions — except for their transportation to and from their field of labor — and are not paid for their services.