Two years

[RC Vikings]

It seems a lot longer when you are the parent.

[JohnnyLingo]

It seems a lot longer when you are the parent.

I'll have to see for myself one day, but boy did they go slowly when it was me out there and very fast when it's been a brother or cousin or something.

[marsupial]

It seems a lot longer when you are the parent.

I've only been the girlfriend and it went by pretty slowly. I can only imagine what'll be like to have my own kid gone for two years. It seems like an impossible request.

[Donuthole]

I'm pretty sure it goes by slowest for the missionary. My 11 weeks in the MTC seemed like 11 months.

[All-American]

I'm pretty sure it goes by slowest for the missionary. My 11 weeks in the MTC seemed like 11 months.

It has something to do, methinks, with the fact that you live in a completely different world when you're out there. It's as though the life you lived up to age 19 is just a story you read about in a book one time. It's just as weird when you come back home. Two days after you get back, it's as though you never left.

[Indy Coug]

Maybe time flies for some missionaries, but that was easily the longest 2 years of my life.

[JohnnyLingo]

I'm pretty sure it goes by slowest for the missionary. My 11 weeks in the MTC seemed like 11 months.

Nine weeks was bad enough. I hated the English-speakers who got to leave after three. But I always recognized the suffering of those Mandarin/Finnish/Russian speakers. (Is Russian an 11-week program?)

[byu71]

It seems a lot longer when you are the parent.

I guess it depends on how "in line" your kid was when he left. I knew mine needed all the indoctrination he could get. I hadn't done a great job.

[Eddie]

Got a nephew coming home next week.

It seems like he's been gone forever. And it seems like he just left. Both at the same time.

I'm guessing that within 6 months it will seem more like he was never gone.

[YOhio]

RC, is he coming back in December?

[Donuthole]

Nine weeks was bad enough. I hated the English-speakers who got to leave after three. But I always recognized the suffering of those Mandarin/Finnish/Russian speakers. (Is Russian an 11-week program?)

I was a simple Spanish speaker. But i was there right when the MTC switched from once-a-week P-Days to several 2-to-3-hour "preparation time" periods throughout the week. I guess this required a rescheduling and re-assignment of all the MTC teachers, and somehow our district got lost in the shuffle. We ended up without any teachers for an entire week. (Unfortunately, this did not result in a week of Pdays, but rather in a week of sitting in our classroom "self studying" while being checked-up on every hour by another district's teacher.) We had to stay a week longer to catch up on the language training, and then many of us had to wait an extra week for our visas.

[RC Vikings]

I guess it depends on how "in line" your kid was when he left. I knew mine needed all the indoctrination he could get. I hadn't done a great job.

This one was a really good kid. I think with it being golf season again I miss him a little more then I did this winter. He would call me a couple of times a week to meet him at the course and go nine holes. I'm not sure i'm going to miss the youngest as much (he needs a mission) but I really miss my oldest.

[RC Vikings]

RC, is he coming back in December?

It's only been 9 months. He's got forever.

[JohnnyLingo]

I was a simple Spanish speaker. But i was there right when the MTC switched from once-a-week P-Days to several 2-to-3-hour "preparation time" periods throughout the week. I guess this required a rescheduling and re-assignment of all the MTC teachers, and somehow our district got lost in the shuffle. We ended up without any teachers for an entire week. (Unfortunately, this did not result in a week of Pdays, but rather in a week of sitting in our classroom "self studying" while being checked-up on every hour by another district's teacher.) We had to stay a week longer to catch up on the language training, and then many of us had to wait an extra week for our visas.

Good ol' MTC adventures. My district was given a piece of paper that said "No Schedule Match" as our daily schedule our first day there. We ended up missing out on meeting our three instructors the next morning since we had no idea we were supposed to be there.

[SteelBlue]

My little brother JAXON gets home in 2 weeks. It felt like he was gone about 6 months. My own mission, though exactly 24 months long, felt like a good 3 years.