For Parents & Families

Support Your Missionary with Greater Confidence, Understanding, and Connection

Because

Missionary Parents Need Support Too

Watching a missionary struggle emotionally can leave parents feeling helpless, uncertain, overwhelmed, or afraid of saying the wrong thing. Many parents deeply want to support their missionary but feel unprepared for conversations surrounding anxiety, discouragement, homesickness, doubts, emotional overwhelm, or returning home early. These resources were created to help parents respond with greater empathy, confidence, emotional awareness, and support during every stage of missionary life

1). Free Monthly Parent Support Emails

Thoughtful monthly guidance to help parents better understand, support, and emotionally connect with their missionary throughout their mission experience.

2) A Course designed specifically for Parents of Missionairies.

GOOD PARENTS, HARD CALLS COURSE

A faith-centered course helping parents navigate difficult mental health conversations and better support missionaries through emotional challenges.

3) PARENT COMMUNITY

Good Parents, Hard Calls Community

A supportive parent network where families can ask questions, receive guidance, share experiences, and connect with others navigating similar missionary challenges.

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Start receiving Mental Health Moments for Family & Friends and feel confident knowing you’re helping your missionary navigate the ups and downs of their service while building a stronger, more supportive connection. Let’s navigate this journey together—one moment at a time.

By signing up, you agree to receive monthly email to help YOU better help YOUR missionary!

Each month, we’ll cover a variety of essential topics like:

  • Listening Without “Fixing”
    Learn how to be a safe, non-judgmental sounding board for your missionary.

  • Sitting with Their Struggles
    Discover the importance of allowing space for emotions and validating their feelings.

  • Building Empathy from a Distance
    Explore thoughtful ways to convey understanding and support—even when you’re far away.

  • Celebrating Small Wins
    Help your missionary focus on progress, no matter how small, and recognize what’s going well.

  • Coping with Homesickness Together
    Share uplifting updates from home without adding to their feelings of homesickness.

  • Supporting Spiritual Resilience
    Encourage their spiritual growth while offering comfort and inspiration.

  • Helping Them Handle Rejection and Discouragement
    Boost their resilience with tools to overcome the emotional toll of missionary work.

  • The Art of Asking Meaningful Questions
    Foster openness and connection through thoughtful questions that make them feel truly seen.

And so much more.

Each email is packed with simple yet powerful ideas that make a real difference—not only for your missionary but for you as well.

In addition to a monthly email for YOU

We offer a weekly mental health email subscription for YOUR missionary.

Hey Grandparents, Parents & Loved Ones

Give your missionary the gift of mental health

Check out all our metal health resources that can be sent to your missionary loved ones for birthdays, holidays, and other special occasions.

  • $10

Be Still, My Soul: A Mindful Coloring Book for Missionaries (NATURE EDITION)

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  • 1 file

Be Still, My Soul: A Mindful Coloring Book for Missionaries (Nature Edition) invites missionaries to slow down, breathe deeply, and find peace through creativity. Filled with nature-inspired designs, this book encourages reflection, mindfulness, and spiritual renewal—helping missionaries stay centered, inspired, and connected to the beauty of God’s creations.

  • $10

Be Still, My Soul: A Mindful Coloring Book for Missionaries (TEMPLE EDITION)

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  • 1 file

Be Still, My Soul: A Mindful Coloring Book for Missionaries (Temple Edition) centers on covenant peace and mindful reflection. As you color temple scenes from around the world, find calm in sacred architecture and serenity in each line. This edition invites missionaries to reconnect with their purpose, strengthen faith, and feel the stillness found in God’s holy houses.

  • $25

Bedtime Meditations For Missionaries

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  • 10 files

Missionary work brings joy, growth, and challenge. Yet stress and exhaustion can weigh heavily. Our 10 Bedtime Meditations for Missionaries help release worry, process the day, and rest in the Savior’s love. Each guided reflection promotes peace, mindfulness, and renewal—helping missionaries end each day with calm, clarity, and spiritual strength.

  • Free

Beyond the Console: A Gamer’s Guide to Thriving on Your Mission.

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  • 1 file

Beyond the Console: A Gamer’s Guide to Thriving on Your Mission helps missionaries who used gaming as a coping tool understand what it provided—and how to replace it in healthy ways. Through “Mission Training Quests,” they learn practical skills for stress, motivation, connection, and confidence, turning real-life challenges into opportunities to grow, adapt, and truly thrive.

  • $100

Mental Health Moments Weekly Email Subscription for Missionaries

  • Course
  • 1 Lesson

Mental Health Moments is a weekly email series designed specifically for missionaries. Each message is crafted to be uplifting, practical, and easy to read in just a few minutes—perfect for the busy schedule of missionary life.

  • $25

Missionary Meditations on the Go Series

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  • 18 files

Missionary work is full of movement — walking, teaching, talking, serving. But between the lessons, the doorsteps, and the daily miles, it’s easy for stress and emotion to build up quietly inside. That’s why we created the Meditation on the Go Series — a set of 18 quick (2 minutes or less), Spirit-centered meditations designed to help missionaries find peace, calm, and focus right where they are.

  • $10

Missionary Mindfulness-365 Daily Prompts

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  • 1 file

Missionary Mindfulness Prompts offers 365 daily reflections to help missionaries slow down, breathe, and reconnect with God amid the busyness of service. Each short prompt encourages awareness, gratitude, compassion, and stillness—transforming ordinary moments into sacred experiences. This year-long guide nurtures peace, presence, and Christlike mindfulness every day of a mission.

  • $97

More Than a Mission: Finding Wholeness, Honesty and Yourself After Coming Home Early

  • Course
  • 15 Lessons

Coming home early from a mission is rarely simple. Whether you felt relieved, devastated, or somewhere in between, you deserve a place to process it. More Than a Mission is a seven-week course built around the healing power of writing, helping early returned missionaries make sense of what happened, understand who they're becoming, and move forward with clarity and confidence.

  • $75

The Complete Missionary Mindfulness Bundle

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  • 5 Items

The Missionary Mindfulness Bundle helps missionaries find peace, focus, and spiritual renewal. Featuring 25 guided meditations, two mindful coloring books (Nature & Temple Editions), and 365 daily mindfulness prompts, this collection nurtures calm, gratitude, and covenant-centered reflection—supporting missionaries in staying balanced, inspired, and connected to the Savior.

  • $144

The Mental Health Training Center

  • Course
  • 53 Lessons

Whether you are preparing for an 18 or 24 month proselytizing mission, a service mission, a senior mission or a mission leadership position, we welcome you to this supportive space focused on equipping YOU for your mental health journey as you strive to serve God with your whole heart, might, MIND, and soul. The MHTC has 12 lessons that will help you not simply survive your mission experience, but to thrive on it!

  • $30

The Mission Cookbook

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  • 1 file

Designed with real mission life in mind, this cookbook features simple, nourishing recipes that fit tight schedules, limited kitchens, and missionary budgets—so missionaries can fuel their bodies, strengthen their minds, and stay focused on their calling. This Cookbook comes with The Mental Health Training Center, but can also be purchased separately here.

  • Free email delivery

Your Guide to Missionary Mental Wellness (Free E-book)

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  • 2 files

Start your mission with confidence! This ebook introduces the mental health resources available through Latter Day Missionaries for preparing and current missionaries. You’ll also receive “20 Tools to Stress Less,” a booklet from Lesson 1 of The Mental Health Training Center, offering practical tools missionaries can use to manage stress and stay emotionally strong.