What did you miss out on during your mission?

BYUROCKS wrote:
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.

Oh, I almost forgot, I did miss Napoleon Dynamite. About a year into my mission, all the new elders were quoting it and we had no idea what the heck it was. It turned out that Jared Hess's cousin was in my mission, and he explained what it was and that his cousin was working on a Mexican wrestling movie with Jack Black. I had forgotten all about that when, a year after my mission had ended, Nacho Libre hit the big screen.

snoscythe wrote:

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.

...and yet some 12 or something years later I'll still turn up the radio when it comes on. It's on a regular rotation on my Pandora as well. Their best song by a mile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPU8OAjjS4k

scott715 wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPU8OAjjS4k

I forgot to mention that the video is as good as the song (much like imagine dragons radioactive and barenaked ladies odds are)



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Oh and someone told me that the BCS is no more, so I missed the death of the BcS.

2001-2003 So I missed 9/11 (but was state side so not really), Doman/Staley go undefeated until they got passed over by the BCS and the Olympics. Living in SLC my whole driving life was under the cloud called the 2002 Olympics. I remember driving a Ford Expedition down the "bobsled" that was I-15 for work when I was 16. I thought I was going to die. Then the day I left the MTC for the airport was the day the completed I-15 opened on all lanes just to mock me. :sick:

84-86.



I missed the national championship. I saw us beat Pitt but that was it. My sister sent me a bunch of NC paraphernalia so that was cool. About a year into my mission someone got a hold of a VHS of the Holiday Bowl against Michigan and somehow a few of us got to watch it.

I was out from 98 to 2000. Left 2 weeks after the broncos won their first superbowl. I missed 2 out of the 3 Feterik years, so I have that going for me.



When I left, about the only thing I knew about the Internet was email. I came back, and it was everywhere.



I missed the last Seinfeld episode. I missed Weber State beating UNC. I missed the second Jazz/Bulls finals (mostly).



I missed the tornado in downtown SLC.



I can't think of much else.



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I missed the Florida Marlins supposedly winning the World Series in 1997. I don't believe this ever really happened. They played .433 ball in the three seasons before I left. And .406 ball in the three seasons after I got back. Yet I'm supposed to somehow believe they won the World Series? That they magically became the best team in baseball?



Sorry. Never gonna believe it.

I missed the dedication of the Kirtland Temple...

snoscythe wrote:

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".

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



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDMvN45sjo4



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVXIK1xCRpY

Mars wrote:


I missed making out with chicks. And swimming. :~(



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

:lol: 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 ;) )

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.

Schmoe wrote:
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! 8)

Schmoe wrote:
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.

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.

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. :sulk:

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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