3 Ways to Save Your LDS Mission Memories

For many young men and women who serve, their missions are a transformative experience. It’s natural to want to preserve and share those memories with family and future generations, but since you spend your mission serving, not scrapbooking, sharing those lessons and reminiscences might be a bit of a challenge.
You definitely can save your mission memories. Here’s how:
Method 1: Keep a Blog
Some missionaries keep a blog during their mission to record their thoughts, experiences, and lessons.
If updated regularly, your mission blog is a sensible way to write down and store your memories for future sharing. Friends and family can comment on your posts, and anyone can share what you’ve written.
Method 2: Save Your Emails
Each Saturday, you’ve been emailing your family back home, reading their messages to you, and sharing your experiences via email.
Your access to MyLDSMail expires after returning from your mission, though, so all of those conversations, reflections, and memories could be lost.
Save your MyLDSMail emails so that you can look back on them later.
Method 3: Get a Mission Book
Digitally saving your memories with a blog or email is wonderful, but most RMs find that they don’t often look back through their email account to find stories, and they don’t necessarily want to continue maintaining their blog for years to come.
These RMs often decide to convert their blog posts or MyLDSMail emails into a keepsake book, which can sit on the shelf until you’re ready to reminisce.
Mission books are more satisfying than reading emails or blog posts on a computer, and if you want to, you can preserve memories both ways.
However you decide, be sure to save your mission memories in some way. You’ll want them in a few years.
