Cindy Hacking of Gallatin has been called to serve a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Hacking will serve in the California Bakersfield Mission and will be speaking Spanish.
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Hacking is the daughter of Mary and Ben Hacking, also of Gallatin. Cindy studied Public Relations and Communications at BYU-Idaho and is a graduate of Gallatin R-5. Cindy has served the community as a volunteer for Chautauqua, Scare on the Square, and Christmas on the Square. She also volunteered her time as a dance instructor for Elite Arts in Gallatin and was the choreographer for Cameron Children’s Theater.
Cindy has planned to serve a mission since she was 14. She wants “…everyone to know how much they mean to God.” “I want them to be able to experience the joy that comes from knowing God and His Son.” Hacking will join 67,000 missionaries worldwide.
Missionaries receive their assignment from church 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 training to teach the people they will serve. 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. This training is now handled remotely due to the current pandemic.
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. Missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ practice social distancing. Most of their teaching has moved online to comply with CDC guidelines. Additionally, missionaries serve people in the communities where they are called. Missionaries are allowed to serve people in outdoor projects where they can practice social distancing. 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.