Returned Missionary Stories

Please share your stories or reflections with The Returned Missionary Training Center Community.

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Return Returned Missionary

RM Stories

Before leaving the mission, some missionaries are already laying the foundations for their return trip. Others have enjoyed their time but are focused on one thing — returning home. The craving to return to their mission doesn’t hit them until they’ve been home for a few months. I was in the former group, having made [...]

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Surreal Moments

RM Stories

The day after I arrived home, I was exhausted. RMs often talk of how they wanted to continue to get up at 6:30 AM, but for me, there was no way that was going to happen after a long plane ride across the Atlantic. I awoke and just laid there happy to finally have some [...]

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Conjunction Junction

RM Stories

One more door before District Meeting. We knocked and a woman answered. She was very polite and listened to our brief spiel. Then we asked a question. Perhaps it was, “Do you believe in Jesus Christ?” Or maybe something about the Book of Mormon. Didn’t matter. Because we’d unwittingly contacted the undisputed world leader in [...]

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Are You the Newest Returned Missionary?

Fresh off the Plane

There comes a point during every baptismal service in which the Bishop stands up and says, “Just think Jacob, right now you’re probably the newest member of the church anywhere in the whole world.” It’s time returned missionaries have a similar moment. We want to find out who the newest returned missionary is. Leave a [...]

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Guest Post: Fresh off the Boat

RM Stories

This guest post was written by Sister Dee of the New Zealand Wellington Mission. Share your thoughts and stories about returning home from a mission by sending us an e-mail. You might be thinking you can just easily step from the “mission boat” to the “next crucial 5 years” boat and keep smoothly sailing in [...]

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Growing Dead Relationships

RM Stories

This is the true story of seven brothers, and yes, there are seven brides but we’ll address that later. To protect the innocent, names have been changed to Latin ordinal numbers (regards to Neil Gaiman). If you’re worried, the number of brothers doesn’t give anything away; we’re LDS, seven brothers isn’t at all exceptional. When [...]

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Cafeteria Capers

RM Stories

Much has changed since the olden days of the Missionary Training Center. Back in the day, after you made your way through the food line in the cafeteria you would take your tray and find a nice place to sit with your companion. Occasionally, an unfortunate soul would lose a subconscious duel with gravity and drop [...]

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Knocking Doors

RM Stories

You had your favorite bad habit as a missionary, and I had mine. I was a door knocking junkie. The thrill of going to a complete strangers door, knocking and waiting for something—who knows what—to happen, was better than eating an entire sleeve of Thin Mints Girl Scout Cookies. So, ignoring the oft repeated counsel [...]

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Things I Learned on My Mission

RM Stories

When you serve a mission you meet a lot of interesting people — extra emphasis on interesting. These encounters may have left you scratching your head, scared, or pleasantly amused. I don’t know about you, but I loved talking to the different folks. It was a welcome diversion to the monotony of knocking doors and [...]

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Trainers: Gotta Love ‘Em

RM Stories

A big thanks to our fellow returned missionary for sharing his missionary story. Although my head was spinning with exhaustion and nerves, I stepped off the airplane into the life-sucking heat and humidity with more anticipation and self-worth than I had ever experienced in my life; I was finally a missionary in the field. I [...]

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Mother Bird has Left the Nest

RM Stories

Did your parents move during your mission? Here’s one recently returned missionaries take on the subject: My dad got a job in New Mexico two months before I left for the Missionary Training Center. It was hard because he had to move there before the rest of the family. Which meant, my mom and I had [...]

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Missionary Attacked to Death by Insane Monster Dog!

RM Stories

This is the story of the meanest dog in Mexico. It all started when a German Shepherd tackled the three-year-old version of me. Or maybe not. Only Freud knows. But I’ve always been scared of dogs. So—happy day!—I got to my first area in Mexico and found that the dogs were like zombies in Thriller: [...]

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