Latter-day Saint Life

The Do's and Don'ts of Helping RMs Adjust

BYU has more returned missionaries on campus than ever before. According to a BYU news release, Fall 2014 saw record-high numbers of returned missionaries with 19 percent of female students and 87 percent of male students being returned missionaries.

Chances are most students at BYU have a friend, or will have a friend, facing the challenge of adjusting back to normal life. Here are the do’s and don’ts of helping those awkward RMs adjust to normal life.

Do ask them about their missions, companions, president, areas, favorite areas.

Don’t ask them how many baptisms they had.

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