My parents picked me up in my foreign mission and it was an amazing experience

Apr 29, 2016
9:49:44pm

Windward_Coug All-American

They still talk about it to this day all these years later. We traveled to a couple areas where I had served and met some of the families I had baptized, it was awesome. I hope to pick up my kids someday if they serve foreign.

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Windward_Coug

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Picking up missionaries from their mission

Canusa

4/29/16 9:13pm

Not extremely prohibited. That's wrong info.

johnnycarson

4/29/16 9:15pm

it is very discouraged.

molodyets

4/29/16 9:20pm

Very discouraged by who? Some MPs don't care.

shimmy

4/29/16 9:23pm

No its not. That's wrong. Any

johnnycarson

4/29/16 9:25pm

No kidding. Ridiculous that anyone can view that as a bad thing

cougfanz

4/29/16 9:37pm

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cvd6262

4/29/16 9:39pm

it is in the handbook for mission presidents to discourage it.

molodyets

4/29/16 11:23pm

Nope. My mission president enjoyed having parents pick up their missionary.

DrKennethNoisewater

4/29/16 9:34pm

Picked up all siblings and was picked up myself.

immacougar

4/29/16 10:19pm

My sons MP sent a letter

TheHop

4/29/16 11:38pm

I visited my son the last 3 or 4 days of his mission in Mexico City

Florwood

5/2/16 7:41am

My belief is that the Church discourages it because

Archaea

5/2/16 7:22am

My MP had no such rule. The office Elders helped with a lot of the logistics of

BYUHawk

4/29/16 9:26pm

The Church generally discourages it but does not prevent the parents from

fstachitus

4/29/16 9:31pm

From the handbook

Bumpus Hound

4/29/16 9:43pm

I find it interesting

TheHop

4/30/16 9:51am

I'm not bent out of shape. I am also aware the Brethren could easily have said

gwalker

5/1/16 2:39pm

The handbook also discourages against a husband getting fixed..

phillYeagles

5/2/16 11:55am

My parents picked me up in my foreign mission and it was an amazing experience

Windward_Coug

4/29/16 9:49pm

Same. My parents talk about it all the time - so glad they came and got to see

Harrison0Yfan

4/29/16 10:59pm

Amen!!

BYUHgrad

4/30/16 4:42am

My mission president encouraged it

dallinski

4/29/16 9:56pm

I love my mission president

SurfCoug

4/29/16 10:57pm

Didn't read all entries, but best result was go home and come back in 6+ months

Roadrunner70

4/30/16 9:31am

I told my parents I would prefer to go back after my mission. We went back about

ataylor

4/29/16 10:16pm

Our last SP picked up his kids from their mission

Hank Rearden

4/29/16 10:26pm

Does this really need to be a policy, or is it Mormon-by-the-book-culture?

Q-grr

4/29/16 10:28pm

We received a letter from the mission saying they did not recommend it.

BW84

4/29/16 10:31pm

Church travel does reimburse the parents for the cost of their missionary's

fstachitus

4/29/16 10:37pm

Here is the info from Handbook 1..discouraged, not prohibited

Nat Gas Man

4/29/16 10:35pm

My little brother went to the west indies and surprisingly my parents went to pick him up

Rusby

4/30/16 6:28am

We picked up our daughter in the Philippines last year and will go to Korea

tander123

4/29/16 10:41pm

My parents came to the Philippines

Mabuhay Coug

4/29/16 11:48pm

My ward in the Philippines currently has a mission president and 3 GA's

Cougar Jazz Fan

4/30/16 1:28am

I can tell you that it is up to the MP. The church discourages it because their missions aren't over

Crowgar

4/29/16 10:43pm

I don't think your analogy is correct. And the missionary is a man at that point

shimmy

4/29/16 10:46pm

I shouldn't have said they enforce the rules. I meant that they will make sure he or she will be allowed to

Crowgar

4/29/16 10:49pm

As long as they aren't rubbing uglies with the locals, how bad can it get?

Q-grr

4/29/16 10:51pm

Strictly obeying the rules is why we had about a dozen amazing experiences the ten days after my mission

Crowgar

4/29/16 11:10pm

That is awesome. I hadn't thought of it from that perspective.

Q-grr

4/30/16 1:49am

My parents picked me and all of my siblings up from our missions

therock

4/29/16 10:44pm

I feel like it's allowed the majority of the time

Harrison0Yfan

4/29/16 10:55pm

Most of the time its not a problem at all because most people have common sense.

vegasnative

4/29/16 11:22pm

Never heard of such a thing. We picked up my youngest brother.

Tuskaloosa Cougar

4/29/16 11:39pm

My parents picked me up. We went briefly to a few of my areas, but did most

gwalker

4/30/16 12:17am

Many mission presidents discourage it and there is some

Sandstone Cougar

4/30/16 12:58am

Pharisees ... IMO.

BamaCoug

4/30/16 7:21am

RE: Picking up missionaries from their mission

Skidmark

4/30/16 7:49am

Sinner!

blueaussie

4/30/16 8:36am

Depends--my anecdote is it's usually not prohibited.

BringYourUltimate

4/30/16 9:02am

Your mission is over what power does the MP have? Yours tell you who to marry?

Y4LYFE

4/30/16 11:52am

I'm not sure I care if it is discouraged...

diluigifan

4/30/16 1:37pm

Discouraged probably because it has been abused before

CougarThug

4/30/16 2:35pm

Who freaking cares...

Pride

4/30/16 3:38pm

Totally agree. They're hard in others too - we need to chill out a bit.

Harrison0Yfan

4/30/16 3:45pm

I've had four kids serve missions. We picked up every one of them.

SLCougar

4/30/16 5:41pm

We have done it twice but in two different ways

warp

5/2/16 7:27am

My wife says we will be picking up our son!

CariocaCoug

5/2/16 9:02am

What about open houses? Also "strongly discouraged" but everyone still has them

BlueBlood94

5/2/16 9:06am

They're only discouraged during the 3-hour block though, right?

Ulysses14

5/2/16 10:09am

No, discouraged as violating the Sabbath as a day of rest & family time.

BlueBlood94

5/2/16 12:19pm

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cvd6262

5/2/16 2:55pm

Some do them Saturday evening, but a lot in Utah do the big Sabbath open house.

BlueBlood94

5/2/16 4:14pm

It seems to be mostly a Utah thing. I haven't seen them other places.

vegasnative

5/2/16 8:28pm

My parents picked me up and also just picked my sister up a couple months ago.

RUNBYU1

5/2/16 10:40am

My president was fine with it

SonsOfAlvin

5/2/16 11:29am

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