014: Austin Discusses Returning Home Early from the MTC

Early Homecoming: Insights from Missionaries who Returned Early

English - January 05, 2020 07:00 - 44 minutes - 30.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 10 ratings
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In this episode, Austin tells me about his experience of returning home after 10 days from the Provo MTC due to a sudden onset of severe anxiety and panic. He returned home to supportive family, friends, and leaders for the most part, but still struggled for several years to define his mission. Was it a mission? Could he say he had served a mission? What should he call that experience? Austin discusses how he has begun to make peace with those questions and also how he moved forward from the trauma of returning home early. He is now able to speak openly about his mission and experience with returning home early.