Finding Your Eternal Partner While On A Mission?

[georgia2]

Originally Posted by Tarnished

My brother met his eternal companion while on his mission. It was much like Ben's experience. He went and didn't notice her, then later she sees him on facebook and asks how he is, he responds and asks her how her dog was doing (turned out he remembered her dog better than he remembered her) she was impressed that he remembered the dog and realized that they were attending the same school (BYU - I) they hooked up and got married and that was that. I think it really depends on the things that led up to the marriage.

I think this scenario is different than what they were talking about. I've always thought the advice to not marry someone on your mission is when people met someone they find attractive, sorta flirt with, get back in touch immediately when home and start up the affair. I do know of marriages that did result in a situation like this and every one ended in divorce.

[Misshalfway]

I do know of marriages that did result in a situation like this and every one ended in divorce.

I know of one where the missionary baptised the girl and the girl fell in love and basicallly stalked the dude until his mission was over, and practically had the wedding planned by the time the dude got off the plane. It was a problem because the missionary got sudduced into all the exaggertated emotions and lost his missionary focus and was married to the girl sooner than three months home. They are still married and trying to make it work. But both of them were so incredibly immature about how they dated....or failed to really date each other. OR prepare their own characters for marriage in the first place. Instead they got caught up in their misguided feelings of destiny and spent the first three years throwing plates at each other.

[Bini]

Originally Posted by Misshalfway

I know of one where the missionary baptised the girl and the girl fell in love and basicallly stalked the dude until his mission was over, and practically had the wedding planned by the time the dude got off the plane. It was a problem because the missionary got sudduced into all the exaggertated emotions and lost his missionary focus and was married to the girl sooner than three months home. They are still married and trying to make it work. But both of them were so incredibly immature about how they dated....or failed to really date each other. OR prepare their own characters for marriage in the first place. Instead they got caught up in their misguided feelings of destiny and spent the first three years throwing plates at each other.

That is really so true for so many people.

[Moksha]

Originally Posted by Misshalfway

Missionaries are to lock their hearts!

Hearts are not the most troublesome part.

[deseretgov]

I met my wife while on my mission. And I have to say on MY part the interest was there. But she didn't remember me at all when I called her three months after returning home. We dated over the internet for about a year. Then we were engaged for about three years. The whole time we were only together for one month every year.

My dad's companion in England married a Sister missionary he served with.

I heard that one of the missionaries in my mission had it in his patriarchal blessing that he would meet his wife on his mission. We always thought it would be a local. But it turned out to be an American sister missionary he despised while on his mission. They met at BYU I think.

There were another pair of local(Filipino) missionaries that got married after their missions. But they served in the same mission.

That's all the "missionary" marriages I can think of. I have some "great" stories of missionaries who dated while on their missions.

[Bini]

deseretgov, thanks for sharing. That's very interesting!