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Are you excited to talk to your missionary on Mother's Day!!?
Well, you should be. So what are you going to say on your missionary phone call? What will you ask your missionary? How can you spend your time best? What can you talk about without making them too homesick?
Well here are some great questions to help you help you help your missionary to keep their mind on the mission. This might help so that you don’t just cry the whole time and make them homesick.
1. When was the last time you laughed with your companion and why? What makes you laugh in your area? How do you stay light hearted?
2. What has your mission president been doing to inspire the mission? What do you love about your mission president?
3. Tell us in person about the last miracle you witnessed…When was the last time you saw an answer to prayer?
4. What do you like about your companion? Do have fun in the work together?
5. Are there any inside jokes in your mission? What is your current mission theme right now?
6. How are your clothes holding up? How are your feet?
7. Have you found any new investigators from your past investigators in your area book?
8. What was your favorite meal from members during the mission so far?
9. Are there street vendors in your area? Do they offer good food? Do you snack during the day between lessons?
10. What has been your favorite P-day activity so far?
11. Do you do a lot of service in your area? What service projects have you done?
12. How many progressing investigators do you have right now? Any new ones since the last email?
13. How much do you work on retention in your area? Are there a lot of less active members?
14. What is your favorite smell in your area right now? Least favorite?
15. How often do you do laundry? When was the last time you washed your sheets?
16. What is music like in your ward? Does everyone sing? Does it sound good? Have you had to help with music?
17. What are some of the local sayings and interesting things people say in your area? (if they are in a foreign mission)
18. What’s the scariest thing that has happened to you so far where you have felt protected as a missionary?
19. What do most people do for work in your area or is it pretty mixed?
20. Share with us how has your testimony grown since leaving home? (In your mission language if you want). How has the atonement strengthened you as a missionary?
21. What should we do to be better missionaries at home while you are gone?
What are some other great questions that you will ask your missionary?
- How many members in your ward/branch?- What is the church building like?
- What is the town like? Rural, small town, small city, med. city, large city?
- What does the area look like? flat? rolling hills? A lot of trees?
- How hot is it? How cold is it? How often does it rain?
- How is your companion? How long has he been out? Is his family LDS? Do they support him with letters? Life member or convert?
- Are you sleeping well? How is the food? What is the best food you've eaten?
- What is the weirdest food you've eaten?
- How many dinner appts do you get? What do you usually eat for breakfast? Lunch?
- How are your clothes? Shoes? Socks?
- How are your feet? Any problems?
- Do you need more toothpaste? Deodorant? Vitamins?
- What is your apt like? Is it in a big building? Are your neighbors friendly or scared of you?
- How far away is the Mission Office? How many in your District? Where are they from? Who is the District Leader? Zone Leader? How often do you have Zone Conference?
- What do you usually do on P-day? What service do you do? How often?
- How many investigators?
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