Serve with your whole heart. Take care of your whole self.
Strong mental health is built over time, through small choices, practical skills, honest conversations, and consistent practice.
That’s the idea behind Mental Health Moments. Each week, missionaries learn one useful mental health concept, practice it through a simple Growth Challenge, and are encouraged to talk about what they’re learning with family, companions, and friends.
Week by week, those small lessons add up to something bigger: a mental health toolbox they can use throughout their mission and carry with them into adulthood.
One email a week. For 18 or 24 months.
Skills for the mission. Tools for life.
Practical strategies grounded in established mental health principles and credible research, explained in language missionaries can actually use.
Mental health principles are thoughtfully connected with scripture, discipleship, faith in Jesus Christ, and missionary life.
Learning is more powerful when you practice it. Each email includes a simple challenge missionaries can apply during the coming week.
Simple techniques for managing stress, navigating difficult emotions, improving relationships, challenging unhelpful thoughts, and caring for your mental well-being.
One question each week encourages missionaries to talk about mental health with family, companions, and friends and helps make healthy conversations more normal.
Examples and applications address experiences missionaries actually face, including rejection, homesickness, companionship struggles, stress, uncertainty, comparison, perfectionism, and discouragement.
Mental Health Moments is organized into 5-week series.
Each series focuses on one important area of mental health. Over each of the five week series, missionaries explore different skills and strategies related to that theme. Some of the series include topics such as:
Learn to approach challenges, mistakes, feedback, and personal growth differently.
Learn to recognize, name, understand, and respond to emotions in healthy ways.
Practice being present, reducing distractions, finding stillness, and developing gratitude.
Learn simple breathing techniques that can help calm the body and manage stressful moments.
Learn what happens in your mind and body during stress and what you can do about it.
Build practical skills for responding to anxious thoughts, uncertainty, and fear.
Learn strategies for navigating difficult emotional periods and recognizing when additional support may be needed.
Develop healthy ways to stay connected while adapting to life away from home.
Learn communication, conflict-resolution, empathy, and relationship skills.
Learn to pursue growth without tying your worth to achievement or perfection.
Recognize emotional exhaustion and learn sustainable ways to serve and care for yourself.
Practice doing difficult and uncomfortable things even when you don't feel completely confident.
Select the version that matches your mission length:
Mental Health Moments For Sisters
One weekly email throughout an 18-month mission. (Also valid for Elders who have 18 months or less of their mission)
Mental Health Moments for Elders
One weekly email throughout a 24-month mission.
Mental Health Moments can be delivered directly to the missionary or to a parent or loved one who forwards the email each week.
Choose when you'd like the series to begin, such as your MTC start date or today's date if you or your missionary is already out serving.
Your first Mental Health Moment arrives on your selected date, followed by a new email every week for your entire 18-24 month mission!
FAQ section
Everything you need to know before you begin.
Not at all.
Mental Health Moments is designed to be proactive, helping missionaries develop healthy skills before they desperately need them.
Learning how to manage stress, communicate, understand emotions, handle failure, develop resilience, and ask for help benefits everyone.
Mental Health Moments is available in two options based on the length of your missionary's service:
18-Month Mental Health Moments: $69 one-time
Receive one Mental Health Moments email each week for 18 months.
24-Month Mental Health Moments: $79 one-time
Receive one Mental Health Moments email each week for 24 months.
There are no monthly subscription fees. It's one purchase for the entire program.
After purchasing, simply open the Mental Health Moments course, complete the enrollment form, and choose where you'd like the emails delivered and when you'd like them to begin.
One purchase. One email a week. Mental health tools for the entire mission.
Absolutely. If they have less than 18 months to go, select the 18-month Missionary Moments option. If they have 18-24 months to go, select the 24-month Mental Health Moments Option. After purchase, you will need to submit a form that requests a starting date for the emails. If they are already in the MTC or out in the field, simply put today's date so they can start receiving emails immediately without delay!
One Mental Health Moments email is delivered once each week throughout the selected 18-month or 24-month mission!
You choose the start date. This allows families to purchase Mental Health Moments before a missionary leaves and schedule the series to begin around their MTC or mission start date. If a missionary is already out, you can simply select today's date, and your missionary will receive the first email that day!
Yes. You can choose to have Mental Health Moments delivered directly to your missionary's email address. Or you can choose to have them go to a parent's email address, and the parent can forward it to the missionary each week.
No. Mental Health Moments provides general mental health education and wellness information. It is not therapy, diagnosis, individualized medical advice, or a replacement for professional mental health care.
Missionaries experiencing significant or persistent mental health concerns should speak with appropriate mission leadership and a qualified healthcare or mental health professional.
No worries! There are a few things to check:
1. Make sure you completed the enrollment form.
Purchasing Mental Health Moments on LatterDayMissionaries.com is the first step. After purchasing, you'll need to open the Mental Health Moments course and complete the enrollment form, where you'll enter the email address you'd like the weekly emails sent to and your desired start date.
If you haven't completed this form yet, go ahead and do that now. If you'd like the emails to begin right away, simply select today as your start date.
2. Check the missionary's Junk or Spam folder.
Missionary email filters can sometimes send unfamiliar emails to Junk or Spam. If you find Mental Health Moments there, mark the sender as safe or trusted and move the email to the primary inbox. This should help future Mental Health Moments arrive in the correct inbox.
3. Still not seeing them? We're happy to help.
If you've completed the enrollment form, checked Junk and Spam, and the emails still aren't arriving, contact bryson.ensign@latterdaymissionaries.com and we'll help troubleshoot the issue.