Three generations of women are serving missions simultaneously in the Asia Area of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at the same time, an experience they say has brought them great joy and deepened their faith in God’s miraculous work.
It all started with Sister Tanya Tolman, from Malaysia, who began serving as a mission leader of the Singapore Mission with her husband, President Taitama Tolman, in July 2022. Her daughter, Sister Kiara Tolman, started her service mission in the same mission in July 2023. And now her mother, Sister Linda Yost Barrand, from Utah, recently joined the mission as a full-time senior missionary.
“I never envisioned that my daughter and mother would get to join me in my mission,” Sister Tanya Tolman said. “It is true that God’s plans are always better than ours can ever be.”
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Sister Kiara Tolman said she never saw herself serving a full-time mission because she did not feel it would fit her medical and mental abilities. But her parents invited her to pray about a service mission opportunity.
Service missionaries live at home and serve locally as close to full time as their abilities and circumstances allow. Service missions are designed for young women ages 19–29, for a period up to 18 months, and young men ages 18–25, for up to 24 months, whose talents and abilities are better suited to a service mission.
While living with her family as her parents served as mission leaders, Sister Kiara Tolman took a leap of faith and trust that serving a service mission was the right one — and after a few months of serving, she felt a confirmation that she was where she was supposed to be. Sister Kiera Tolman began serving for a six-month period and has extended her mission several times. She will be released in January 2025 after having served 18 months.
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