Adjustment Suggestions into Reality After Missionary Service

Good Morning or Good Afternoon or Good Evening, 

this post should take approximately five minutes to read from start to finish. 

This post is focuses on for all returned missionaries who serves from full time missions, church service missions and for those missionaries who has came home and finished their missions early. 

I have been considered that I am a returned missionary from serving as a Temple Ordinance Worker in Brisbane LDS Temple from December 2018 to July 2019 by my current stake president. Although I did not serve a full time mission and I did not serve a church service mission. 

I know that you probably thinking why would you do a post that focuses on adjustment suggestions into reality after missionary service whe. you have not served a mission yourself. Well if you were thinking about that question, the answer is I would like to help any kind of returned missionaries either from serving a full time mission or from serving a church service mission as know as serving from home, to know what some suggestions that I have for them that would help them to adjust into reality after their missions. 

If you have ever learned and developed new skills and habits during your mission, I would like to encourage you to continue applying those skills and habits into your lives. A new skill can be learning the mission language successfully. A new habit can be doing scripture study daily and personal prayers daily. 

From doing scripture study daily and personal prayers daily, it can help invite the spirit into your life and feel guidance by Heavenly Father of what he would like you to achieve each day. 

If you have served into a location where your mission was in a different time zone than your local time zone, I would encourage you to keep yourself busy, productive, and do your best to adjust to your local time zone first to not think about too much about your mission time zone. Although if you have gotten jetlag, let yourself to get into the routine and not think about too much about your mission time zone.

I know that missions can be tough about finding opportunities to get to go to the Temple. Therefore, I would like to invite you to attend Temple sessions as often as you can. It should be a good feeling to going to the Temple after so long of not going to the Temple. 

Institute classes are always a great way to create and meet new friendships. Institute classes are also great way to encourage yourself to participate in class discussions by sharing your experiences from your mission, and from you sharing your experiences from your mission can always inspire and helpful to someone who has not yet served a mission to make a decision and want to go on a mission one day. 

I know how busy life gets after coming home from serving a mission when life gets in the way from studying a career, or working a full time job or getting married and having your own family, but it is always wonderful idea to stay in touch with people that you choose to keep in contact with after your mission. It would be a wonderful idea to stay in touch with the investigators that you have met in all of your areas, the converts that you and your companions have converted, the church members that you became great friends with, the friendships that you have made during your mission, and the companions that you had during your missions. 

"Welcome Done thou good and faithful servant."

When that time comes that you are ready to apply for employment again, there are always an option to find out if you can go back working at the same job that you were working prior to your mission, and you can always pray to have the spirit to be guiding with you of to where to apply for a job.  

You can always find effective ways of serving others. You can always serve others by fulfilling your callings that you have been called after your mission, you can always do your ministering to your brothers or to your sisters that you were given by the list who to minister to. You can always help to provide rides to elderly church members in your ward to go to church with you. 

Young Single Adult activities and events are always great to making new friendships. Please try to do your best to not being shy and get out of your comfort zone. Young Single Adult activities and events are also great way to catch up with friends that you haven't seen since before you have left for your mission. 

If you're ready for marriage within the first several years of being home from your mission, you can always seek around to go on dates and get to know bunch of people. I know it would be a good idea to praying and fasting to Heavenly Father to ask him if that is the person you're supposed to marry and if that person would be your eternal companion. 

I know that there are some past General Conference talks that mentions about post missions and I think it will help you of some ideas what to do after your mission other than these suggestions that I have mentioned above.

Stay Tuned until next time.