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In this episode, Elizabeth shares her struggle with OCD scrupulosity, which she describes best as "perfectionism." On her mission, Elizabeth was very focused on always doing things right (which [...]

In this episode, Lizzy shares her story of returning home early due to a dizziness that never stopped. Many people around her thought that anxiety was the cause of the dizziness and she struggled [...]

In this episode, Rian shares with me her story of returning home early due to toxic perfectionism, something that she didn't realize she struggled with until she was on her mission and her usual [...]

McKenzie has struggled with anxiety for most of her life, but when the prompting came to serve a mission, she faithfully accepted the call to serve. While she loved several parts of missionary [...]

In this episode, Bob and Elaine share their journey of navigating the culture of our Church that still surrounds missionaries who come home early as they experienced it with their son, who needed [...]

In this episode, five missionaries who came home early for various reasons, and chose to stay home, answer questions previously submitted via a questionnaire distributed on social media. They [...]

In this episode, five missionaries who came home early for various reasons, and chose to return to the field either as proselyting missionaries or as service missionaries, answer questions [...]

In this episode, Layton shares his story of the trauma he experienced on his mission from seeing a robber in his home and the suicide threat that resulted from his inability to cope with that [...]

Sophie served in the Washington D.C. North mission for 17 months before needing to return home early to Vienna, Austria due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Even though she nearly completed her intended [...]

Originally published December 13, 2013 on earlyhomecoming.com. “As missionaries we’re always told to return with honor. Since I came home early, I don’t know if I can.” This was said by Samuel [...]

by Kristen and James Reber Originally published December 13, 2013 on earlyhomecoming.com. For a long time, even up to a year after I came home from my mission early, I thought that missionaries [...]

Originally published March 16, 2014 on earlyhomecoming.com. When a missionary comes home early, the decision to stay home or to go back out becomes paramount. For some, the decision will be [...]