After the initial excitement of homecoming wears off, adjusting to life at home is tough for returned missionaries and their parents! This guide helps returned missionaries focus on eternal principles and apply lessons learned on the mission to overcome challenges. Missionaries also need their parents' help to adjust, and each chapter includes specific suggestions for parents. Working together as a team, missionaries and their parents can make the transfer home an uplifting and faith-promoting experience.

OUR DEAR YOUNG MEN AND YOUNG WOMEN, we have great confidence in you. You are beloved sons and daughters of God and He is mindful of you. You have come to earth at a time of great opportunities and also of great challenges. The standards in this booklet will help you with the important choices you are making now and will yet make in the future. We promise that as you keep the covenants you have made and these standards, you will be blessed with the companionship of the Holy Ghost, your faith and testimony will grow stronger, and you will enjoy increasing happiness.

Veteran mission professionals Steve Hoke and Bill Taylor offer a practical guide for preparing for intercultural missions. They provide resources for personal spiritual preparation as well as crosscultural skills and hands - on missionary training.