What did you miss out on during your mission?

[BoiseBYU]

I missed the dedication of the Kirtland Temple...

[Brayden Green]

And now I've fallen in love with Imagine Dragons.

I remember watching a lame movie ("Corky Romano") on DVD a couple of weeks after I got home, and it had this cool song in it that I went to the trouble of running down on Kazaa and burning on a disc so I could share it with my buddies the next day on our way to Cincy for a Reds game.

I got mocked relentlessly because, evidently, "Kryptonite" by Three Doors Down had run it's course and been relegated to the trash-heap of overplayed songs 6 months before I got home, and here I thought I had found an obscure indy band or something.

Almost the same exact story with Hoobastank "The Reason".

[Brayden Green]

02 - 04'

Many good ones have been mentioned. One worth mentioning (I think) is one of my favorite bands of all time came out of nowhere, and then basically faded off into the night, without me ever having a chance to see them: Audioslave

[Mars]

I missed making out with chicks. And swimming.

2nd day back home, I made out with a BYU chick in a hot tub! #blessings

[Brayden Green]

I missed making out with chicks. And swimming.

2nd day back home, I made out with a BYU chick in a hot tub! #blessings

Well, you gotta fill your canteen!

That is my advice for each prospective missionary (which is also partly why I'll never serve in any "upper" management position in the church). If you are going into the desert, you are going to need a full canteen. If you serve a mission, girls are going to be gunning for you (at least, in my experience they where in a 3rd world country...). If you aren't used to that kind of heat it can be a major temptation to avoid making out with the endless wave of semi-toothless girl after semi-toothless girl coming at you like a heatseeking missile.

I personally didn't miss dating during the mission. It was the least confusing 2 years of my life, not having to deal with the absolute craziness of that other gender.

(p.s. it isn't my only advice to prospective missionaries. There is some good stuff in there too )

[Schmoe]

Well, if we're talking about advice, I'd say dump your girlfriend. Don't expect her to wait for you, don't let her tell you she will, just be friends and if she's still around when you get back, great, but you'll still both be very different people and it still may not work out.

I saw way too many elders lose out on months of extremely valuable time because of nonsense letters from girls back home. Just leave 'em.

[Brayden Green]

Well, if we're talking about advice, I'd say dump your girlfriend. Don't expect her to wait for you, don't let her tell you she will, just be friends and if she's still around when you get back, great, but you'll still both be very different people and it still may not work out.

I saw way too many elders lose out on months of extremely valuable time because of nonsense letters from girls back home. Just leave 'em.

That is good advice. OR, get a couple girls just in case one falls through

And be sure to fill your canteen!

[mizzoucoug]

Well, if we're talking about advice, I'd say dump your girlfriend. Don't expect her to wait for you, don't let her tell you she will, just be friends and if she's still around when you get back, great, but you'll still both be very different people and it still may not work out.

I saw way too many elders lose out on months of extremely valuable time because of nonsense letters from girls back home. Just leave 'em.

Very well said. I didn't have the guts to tell mine goodbye so the Lord took matters into his own hands and found her an RM right at the end of my freshman semester. Broke my heart, but it helped me focus for 2 years.

[CAFB_04-12]

1998-2000. I missed walking around not having doors slammed in my face. Fortunately I was able to walk around and get doors slammed in my face on my mission instead.

[imuakahuku]

I've been pondering this but I'm just not sure what I missed out on because I wasn't around to know that I would have missed out on it if I had been serving a mission.
I was in the MTC when BYU opened the season vs Pitt at BYU and I heard the roar of BYU's first TD of the season. So how did that game and season end up? (1987).

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