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Missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints enter the mission field anticipating to serve the full time of 24-months for men or 18-months for women. However, some missionaries find themselves back home before that time period. Many people, both inside and outside of the LDS Church, don't understand an early-returned missionary's experience. While this topic is explored in-depth in an accompanying article, this piece highlights seven early-returned missionaries' experiences in their own words. In order to guide them, each was given a series of questions.

BYU

A brotherhood of BYU students constructed a time capsule inside a hollowed-out library book in 2005. The members have kept it hidden in the Harold B. Lee Library for 10 years.