Preparing to serve a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints can be overwhelming. There are a lot of things on your mind—where you will serve, what it will be like being away from home, the extent of your knowledge of the gospel, and possibly learning a new language or culture. One of the decisions you will need to make as your departure date nears is what scripture you will use on your LDS missionary plaque.
The longstanding tradition of hanging LDS missionary plaques in your home ward building is meant to be a honor and to remind your fellow ward members of your service and your mission location. Part of the fun of having a missionary plaque is that you get to customize your own with your favorite scripture. But how do you make the right choice? What scripture will accurately represent the “best two years” of your life?
This choice can be intimidating because there are so many great options to choose from. Begin your search for the perfect missionary plaque by reflecting on scriptures that have brought you peace and comfort as you decided to serve.
For instance, Sam L. from California, USA, told the New Era of his experience, “For someone who doesn’t even like answering my door, the thought of knocking on a total stranger’s door to talk about the gospel seemed beyond the bounds of possibility.
“At a stake youth conference, we were asked to go out with missionaries and preach the gospel. Going with real missionaries? To real people? I was nervous, but then I remembered a scripture: ‘For I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee’ (Isaiah 41:13). I prayed for that help, and although I was still my awkward self, I felt empowered through the Holy Ghost and even gave out two copies of the Book of Mormon.”
This scripture directly influenced Sam L., giving him the courage to serve his mission. That scripture would make the perfect addition to his missionary plaque.
However, not everyone will have a scripture come to mind right away. A few tips to use as you search for missionary plaque scripture include:
Reflect— what does serving a mission mean to you? Are there any scriptures that helped you in the past that would be appropriate for your missionary plaque?
Consider your options— look over popular scriptures like scripture mastery. While you don’t need to stick to scripture mastery, you shouldn’t discount those as options, either.
Be patient—the right scripture will come to you.
Look for inspiration from others—ask your family and friends which scriptures they used on their plaque. Read talks from the prophet and apostles.
No matter the concern, you can find the reassurance you need by turning to your Heavenly Father in prayer.
For additional help, check out our in-depth post “How to Choose the Best Missionary Plaque Scripture.” The missionary plaque specialists at McGee’s Stamp and Trophy also created a list of our three favorite LDS scriptures and a comprehensive list of popular missionary plaque scriptures.
Three Favorite LDS Missionary Plaque Scriptures
D&C 30:11
AND YOUR WHOLE LABOR SHALL BE IN ZION, WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, FROM HENCEFORTH; YEA, YOU SHALL EVER OPEN YOUR MOUTH IN MY CAUSE, NOT FEARING WHAT MAN CAN DO, FOR I AM WITH YOU. AMEN.
Missionary work is all about service—serving your fellow men and serving Heavenly Father. We love this scripture because it focuses purely on that service, telling missionaries to stop fearing and place their trust in God. It is a wonderful option for anyone who is nervous about their mission but still has the courage to move forward.
Moroni 10:31
31 AND AWAKE, AND ARISE FROM THE DUST, O JERUSALEM; YEA, AND PUT ON THY BEAUTIFUL GARMENTS, O DAUGHTER OF ZION; AND STRENGTHEN THY STAKES AND ENLARGE THY BORDERS FOREVER, THAT THOU MAYEST NO MORE BE CONFOUNDED, THAT THE COVENANTS OF THE ETERNAL FATHER WHICH HE HATH MADE UNTO THEE, O HOUSE OF ISRAEL, MAY BE FULFILLED.
32 YEA, COME UNTO CHRIST, AND BE PERFECTED IN HIM, AND DENY YOURSELVES OF ALL UNGODLINESS; AND IF YE SHALL DENY YOURSELVES OF ALL UNGODLINESS, AND LOVE GOD WITH ALL YOUR MIGHT, MIND AND STRENGTH, THEN IS HIS GRACE SUFFICIENT FOR YOU, THAT BY HIS GRACE YE MAY BE PERFECT IN CHRIST; AND IF BY THE GRACE OF GOD YE ARE PERFECT IN CHRIST, YE CAN IN NOWISE DENY THE POWER OF GOD.
This scripture is a great option for sister missionaries as it refers to a daughter of Zion. Even though the term is symbolic, it still holds a certain power. It also speaks about coming unto Christ, which is one of the main teachings new missionaries receive while training for the field. If you feel emboldened by these two scriptures, you should consider this as your missionary plaque scripture.
Mosiah 5:15
THEREFORE, I WOULD THAT YE SHOULD BE STEADFAST AND IMMOVABLE, ALWAYS ABOUNDING IN GOOD WORKS, THAT CHRIST, THE LORD GOD OMNIPOTENT, MAY SEAL YOU HIS, THAT YOU MAY BE BROUGHT TO HEAVEN, THAT YE MAY HAVE EVERLASTING SALVATION AND ETERNAL LIFE, THROUGH THE WISDOM, AND POWER, AND JUSTICE, AND MERCY OF HIM WHO CREATED ALL THINGS, IN HEAVEN AND IN EARTH, WHO IS GOD ABOVE ALL. AMEN.
This scripture might be scripture mastery, but it is for good reason. The first line is especially commanding. Being ‘steadfast and immovable’ and ‘abounding in good works’ is essential to missionary work. Missionaries, like you, can put this scripture on their missionary plaque and use it continually throughout their mission, especially when times are tough. It will help you stay focused on what matters most.
More LDS Missionary Plaque Scripture Options to Consider For Your Mission Plaque
Proverbs 3:5-6
5 TRUST IN THE LORD WITH ALL THINE HEART: AND LEAN NOT UNTO THINE OWN UNDERSTANDING.
6 IN ALL THY WAYS ACKNOWLEDGE HIM, AND HE SHALL DIRECT THY PATHS.
Moroni 7:46-47
46 WHEREFORE, MY BELOVED BRETHREN, IF YE HAVE NOT CHARITY, YE ARE NOTHING, FOR CHARITY NEVER FAILETH. WHEREFORE, CLEAVE UNTO CHARITY, WHICH IS THE GREATEST OF ALL, FOR ALL THINGS MUST FAIL.
47 BUT CHARITY IS THE PURE LOVE OF CHRIST, AND IT ENDURETH FOREVER; AND WHOSO IS FOUND POSSESSED OF IT AT THE LAST DAY, IT SHALL BE WELL WITH HIM.
1 Nephi 10:18-19
18 FOR HE IS THE SAME YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND FOREVER; AND THE WAY IS PREPARED FOR ALL MEN FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, IF IT SO BE THAT THEY REPENT AND COME UNTO HIM.
19 FOR HE THAT DILIGENTLY SEEKETH SHALL FIND; AND THE MYSTERIES OF GOD SHALL BE UNFOLDED UNTO THEM, BY THE POWER OF THE HOLY GHOST, AS WELL IN THESE TIMES AS IN TIMES OF OLD, AND AS WELL IN TIMES OF OLD AS IN TIMES TO COME; WHEREFORE, THE COURSE OF THE LORD IS ONE ETERNAL ROUND.
Alma 29:9
I KNOW THAT WHICH THE LORD HATH COMMANDED ME, AND I GLORY IN IT. I DO NOT GLORY OF MYSELF, BUT I GLORY IN THAT WHICH THE LORD HATH COMMANDED ME; YEA, AND THIS IS MY GLORY, THAT PERHAPS I MAY BE AN INSTRUMENT IN THE HANDS OF GOD TO BRING SOME SOUL TO REPENTANCE; AND THIS IS MY JOY.
D&C 121:45
LET THY BOWELS ALSO BE FULL OF CHARITY TOWARDS ALL MEN, AND TO THE HOUSEHOLD OF FAITH, AND LET VIRTUE GARNISH THY THOUGHTS UNCEASINGLY; THEN SHALL THY CONFIDENCE WAX STRONG IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD; AND THE DOCTRINE OF THE PRIESTHOOD SHALL DISTIL UPON THY SOUL AS THE DEWS FROM HEAVEN.
D&C 38:41
AND LET YOUR PREACHING BE THE WARNING VOICE, EVERY MAN TO HIS NEIGHBOR, IN MILDNESS AND IN MEEKNESS.
John 13: 34-35
34 A NEW COMMANDMENT I GIVE UNTO YOU, THAT YE LOVE ONE ANOTHER; AS I HAVE LOVED YOU, THAT YE ALSO LOVE ONE ANOTHER.
35 BY THIS SHALL ALL MEN KNOW THAT YE ARE MY DISCIPLES, IF YE HAVE LOVE ONE TO ANOTHER.
Alma 42:31
AND NOW, O MY SON, YE ARE CALLED OF GOD TO PREACH THE WORD UNTO THIS PEOPLE. AND NOW, MY SON, GO THY WAY, DECLARE THE WORD WITH TRUTH AND SOBERNESS, THAT THOU MAYEST BRING SOULS UNTO REPENTANCE, THAT THE GREAT PLAN OF MERCY MAY HAVE CLAIM UPON THEM. AND MAY GOD GRANT UNTO YOU EVEN ACCORDING TO MY WORDS. AMEN.
Ether 12:27
AND IF MEN COME UNTO ME I WILL SHOW UNTO THEM THEIR WEAKNESS. I GIVE UNTO MEN WEAKNESS THAT THEY MAY BE HUMBLE; AND MY GRACE IS SUFFICIENT FOR ALL MEN THAT HUMBLE THEMSELVES BEFORE ME; FOR IF THEY HUMBLE THEMSELVES BEFORE ME, AND HAVE FAITH IN ME, THEN WILL I MAKE WEAK THINGS BECOME STRONG UNTO THEM.
Alma 26:37
NOW MY BRETHREN, WE SEE THAT GOD IS MINDFUL OF EVERY PEOPLE, WHATSOEVER LAND THEY MAY BE IN; YEA, HE NUMBERETH HIS PEOPLE, AND HIS BOWELS OF MERCY ARE OVER ALL THE EARTH. NOW THIS IS MY JOY, AND MY GREAT THANKSGIVING; YEA, AND I WILL GIVE THANKS UNTO MY GOD FOREVER. AMEN.
D&C 132:49
FOR I AM THE LORD THY GOD, AND WILL BE WITH THEE EVEN UNTO THE END OF THE WORLD, AND THROUGH ALL ETERNITY; FOR VERILY I SEAL UPON YOU YOUR EXALTATION, AND PREPARE A THRONE FOR YOU IN THE KINGDOM OF MY FATHER, WITH ABRAHAM YOUR FATHER.
Alma 26:12
YEA, I KNOW THAT I AM NOTHING; AS TO MY STRENGTH I AM WEAK; THEREFORE I WILL NOT BOAST OF MYSELF, BUT I WILL BOAST OF MY GOD, FOR IN HIS STRENGTH I CAN DO ALL THINGS; YEA, BEHOLD, MANY MIGHTY MIRACLES WE HAVE WROUGHT IN THIS LAND, FOR WHICH WE WILL PRAISE HIS NAME FOREVER.
Alma 34:32
FOR BEHOLD, THIS LIFE IS THE TIME FOR MEN TO PREPARE TO MEET GOD; YEA, BEHOLD THE DAY OF THIS LIFE IS THE DAY FOR MEN TO PERFORM THEIR LABORS.
Moroni 10:4-5
4 AND WHEN YE SHALL RECEIVE THESE THINGS, I WOULD EXHORT YOU THAT YE WOULD ASK GOD, THE ETERNAL FATHER, IN THE NAME OF CHRIST, IF THESE THINGS ARE NOT TRUE; AND IF YE SHALL ASK WITH A SINCERE HEART, WITH REAL INTENT, HAVING FAITH IN CHRIST, HE WILL MANIFEST THE TRUTH OF IT UNTO YOU, BY THE POWER OF THE HOLY GHOST.
5 AND BY THE POWER OF THE HOLY GHOST YE MAY KNOW THE TRUTH OF ALL THINGS.
Moses 6:52
AND HE ALSO SAID UNTO HIM: IF THOU WILT TURN UNTO ME, AND HEARKEN UNTO MY VOICE, AND BELIEVE, AND REPENT OF ALL THY TRANSGRESSIONS, AND BE BAPTIZED, EVEN IN WATER, IN THE NAME OF MINE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, WHO IS FULL OF GRACE AND TRUTH, WHICH IS JESUS CHRIST, THE ONLY NAME WHICH SHALL BE GIVEN UNDER HEAVEN, WHEREBY SALVATION SHALL COME UNTO THE CHILDREN OF MEN, YE SHALL RECEIVE THE GIFT OF THE HOLY GHOST, ASKING ALL THINGS IN HIS NAME, AND WHATSOEVER YE SHALL ASK, IT SHALL BE GIVEN YOU.
Alma 41:14
THEREFORE, MY SON, SEE THAT YOU ARE MERCIFUL UNTO YOUR BRETHREN; DEAL JUSTLY, JUDGE RIGHTEOUSLY, AND DO GOOD CONTINUALLY; AND IF YE DO ALL THESE THINGS THEN SHALL YE RECEIVE YOUR REWARD; YEA, YE SHALL HAVE MERCY RESTORED UNTO YOU AGAIN; YE SHALL HAVE JUSTICE RESTORED UNTO YOU AGAIN; YE SHALL HAVE A RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT RESTORED UNTO YOU AGAIN; AND YE SHALL HAVE GOOD REWARDED UNTO YOU AGAIN.
Alma 23:6-7
6 AND AS SURE AS THE LORD LIVETH, SO SURE AS MANY AS BELIEVED, OR AS MANY AS WERE BROUGHT TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH, THROUGH THE PREACHING OF AMMON AND HIS BRETHREN, ACCORDING TO THE SPIRIT OF REVELATION AND OF PROPHECY, AND THE POWER OF GOD WORKING MIRACLES IN THEM—YEA, I SAY UNTO YOU, AS THE LORD LIVETH, AS MANY OF THE LAMANITES AS BELIEVED IN THEIR PREACHING, AND WERE CONVERTED UNTO THE LORD, NEVER DID FALL AWAY.
7 FOR THEY BECAME A RIGHTEOUS PEOPLE; THEY DID LAY DOWN THE WEAPONS OF THEIR REBELLION, THAT THEY DID NOT FIGHT AGAINST GOD ANY MORE, NEITHER AGAINST ANY OF THEIR BRETHREN.
Helaman 5:12
AND NOW, MY SONS, REMEMBER, REMEMBER THAT IT IS UPON THE ROCK OF OUR REDEEMER, WHO IS CHRIST, THE SON OF GOD, THAT YE MUST BUILD YOUR FOUNDATION; THAT WHEN THE DEVIL SHALL SEND FORTH HIS MIGHTY WINDS, YEA, HIS SHAFTS IN THE WHIRLWIND, YEA, WHEN ALL HIS HAIL AND HIS MIGHTY STORM SHALL BEAT UPON YOU, IT SHALL HAVE NO POWER OVER YOU TO DRAG YOU DOWN TO THE GULF OF MISERY AND ENDLESS WO, BECAUSE OF THE ROCK UPON WHICH YE ARE BUILT, WHICH IS A SURE FOUNDATION, A FOUNDATION WHEREON IF MEN BUILD THEY CANNOT FALL.
D&C 68:6
WHEREFORE, BE OF GOOD CHEER, AND DO NOT FEAR, FOR I THE LORD AM WITH YOU, AND WILL STAND BY YOU; AND YE SHALL BEAR RECORD OF ME, EVEN JESUS CHRIST, THAT I AM THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD, THAT I WAS, THAT I AM, AND THAT I AM TO COME.
1 Nephi 3:7
AND IT CAME TO PASS THAT I, NEPHI, SAID UNTO MY FATHER: I WILL GO AND DO THE THINGS WHICH THE LORD HATH COMMANDED, FOR I KNOW THAT THE LORD GIVETH NO COMMANDMENTS UNTO THE CHILDREN OF MEN, SAVE HE SHALL PREPARE A WAY FOR THEM THAT THEY MAY ACCOMPLISH THE THING WHICH HE COMMANDETH THEM.
D&C 76:22-24
22 AND NOW, AFTER THE MANY TESTIMONIES WHICH HAVE BEEN GIVEN OF HIM, THIS IS THE TESTIMONY, LAST OF ALL, WHICH WE GIVE OF HIM: THAT HE LIVES!
23 FOR WE SAW HIM, EVEN ON THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD; AND WE HEARD THE VOICE BEARING RECORD THAT HE IS THE ONLY BEGOTTEN OF THE FATHER—
24 THAT BY HIM, AND THROUGH HIM, AND OF HIM, THE WORLDS ARE AND WERE CREATED, AND THE INHABITANTS THEREOF ARE BEGOTTEN SONS AND DAUGHTERS UNTO GOD.
Mosiah 2:41
AND MOREOVER, I WOULD DESIRE THAT YE SHOULD CONSIDER ON THE BLESSED AND HAPPY STATE OF THOSE THAT KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD. FOR BEHOLD, THEY ARE BLESSED IN ALL THINGS, BOTH TEMPORAL AND SPIRITUAL; AND IF THEY HOLD OUT FAITHFUL TO THE END THEY ARE RECEIVED INTO HEAVEN, THAT THEREBY THEY MAY DWELL WITH GOD IN A STATE OF NEVER-ENDING HAPPINESS. O REMEMBER, REMEMBER THAT THESE THINGS ARE TRUE; FOR THE LORD GOD HATH SPOKEN IT.
Alma 29:9
I KNOW THAT WHICH THE LORD HATH COMMANDED ME, AND I GLORY IN IT. I DO NOT GLORY OF MYSELF, BUT I GLORY IN THAT WHICH THE LORD HATH COMMANDED ME; YEA, AND THIS IS MY GLORY, THAT PERHAPS I MAY BE AN INSTRUMENT IN THE HANDS OF GOD TO BRING SOME SOUL TO REPENTANCE; AND THIS IS MY JOY.
Alma 56:47-48
47 NOW THEY NEVER HAD FOUGHT, YET THEY DID NOT FEAR DEATH; AND THEY DID THINK MORE UPON THE LIBERTY OF THEIR FATHERS THAN THEY DID UPON THEIR LIVES; YEA, THEY HAD BEEN TAUGHT BY THEIR MOTHERS, THAT IF THEY DID NOT DOUBT, GOD WOULD DELIVER THEM.
48 AND THEY REHEARSED UNTO ME THE WORDS OF THEIR MOTHERS, SAYING: WE DO NOT DOUBT OUR MOTHERS KNEW IT.
Alma 32:27
BUT BEHOLD, IF YE WILL AWAKE AND AROUSE YOUR FACULTIES, EVEN TO AN EXPERIMENT UPON MY WORDS, AND EXERCISE A PARTICLE OF FAITH, YEA, EVEN IF YE CAN NO MORE THAN DESIRE TO BELIEVE, LET THIS DESIRE WORK IN YOU, EVEN UNTIL YE BELIEVE IN A MANNER THAT YE CAN GIVE PLACE FOR A PORTION OF MY WORDS.
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