You Know You're A Prospective Missionary When...

An original work of my own as a result of the things I find myself doing as of late. Happy reading!

You know you're a prospective missionary when/if:

• You're current favorite reads are any or all of the following: the scriptures, Preach My Gospel*, The Power of Everyday Missionaries
• Cleaning your room turns into sorting stuff that you can take on a mission and putting it aside in boxes for future packing and use.
• Cleaning your closet turns into sorting your clothes into two categories: clothes that you can easily pack and wear on a mission, and those that you can't.
• You're constantly listening to your favorite music because you won't get to listen to it for 18 months. (For me, this is a lot of Oldies music and Broadway tunes.)
• Every dream you have is about opening your mission call.*
• Every dream that you have not regarding your mission call is about being on the field.
• You naturally wake up within 10 minutes of 6:30 every morning.*
• You're ready to go to bed by 10:00 at night.
• You have a countdown to your availability date because you haven't received your mission call.*
• You hear about a movie coming out/music album being released/etc. and realize that it'll be out when you're already gone.
• You time yourself to see how quickly you can send (thoughtful) emails to missionary-friends in preparation for having limited computer time each week.
• You've got 100 stamps set aside just for your mission.
• You wish you could help your ward's missionaries teach all of their lessons!
• The thought of living somewhere else is nerve-racking and thrilling because you've lived within a 10-mile (more or less) radius your entire life.
• You work on brushing up your Spanish in case it'll come in handy.
• You've started a blog.

If you have any submissions to the list, comment below!



*Notes for those of you who don't know or may not get the significance:
-Preach My Gospel is the manual that missionaries use as a guide for finding and teaching people on their mission.
-Mission call: the letter/packet that announces where you're going for your mission and when, what language you will be speaking, etc.
-Missionaries' wake-up time is 6:30 every day on the mission field. Lights-out is typically around 10-10:30 at night.
-Availability date: the earliest date that you could be leaving on your mission.