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Hi, I'm a 19 year old boy who is planning on serving my mission in the summer (June or July). Last semester I was attending Dixie St. University (St. George, Utah) while my girlfriend was attending BYU-Provo (Provo, Utah) which is more than four hours away. We've only seen each other once between the months of August-November. During this Winter break we both came home. My girlfriend and I are from the same hometown. We were very happy to spend time with each other daily and we did things that most young couples do. Things like holding hands, cuddling, kissing, making out. Sometimes things got pretty heated and we started fondling and petting each other in the wrong places. We even had a little hint of oral sex. Notice I said hint because it was only for a couple seconds. We both know what we did wrong and we know we need to take it to the bishop and be 100% honest and not hide anything if we want to be truly repentant of our sins. I'm wondering if this will keep me home from my mission? Will this post pone my mission? What will happen? I am in love with this girl and I can see myself marrying her in the temple someday so please don't tell me that things won't workout because of this situation or because I'm going on a mission for 2 years.

Thanks, I've never thought about it like that. Thank you.

So the reason I'm not fully preparing for my mission right now is because I have two older brothers who are on missions. One in chile and the other in Spain. I'm planning on going to college for a year and then when they come back I'll be going. I'm considering a relationship because things are just boring right now. There's not much excitement in my day honestly. My decision for about two years was to go in 2014.

Aloha, I'm an 18 year old priest in my ward who is a senior in high school. So I've been talking to this non member girl lately and things have been getting pretty serious and its looking like we'll be boyfriend and girlfriend. She's really nice, shes active, she has a good personality, and shes pretty. Theres just two things that aren't so good about her and they are big things. 1) She parties (Drinks) 2) She doesn't really have plans or goals after highschool. I like her a lot but I have different things in mind such as college and mission and I don't party. I feel like I made the mistake of talking to her in the first place but she just seemed different and more attractive. What should I do? Should I stop talking to her or go out with her and see where it goes?

Aloha, I have huge laziness, focus and procrastination problems. For example, I keep telling myself I'm going to read my scriptures or do my homework or even pray every night before I go to sleep. Then I don't do any of those things. That's what happened today when I came home from church. During church I felt the spirit and knew I needed to make a change in something's. So I told myself I was going to read my scriptures and do all my homework and do some other things to prepare myself for the week. None of these things happened because I was watching TV, doing unnecessary football stuff on the web, eating, and just cruzing with family I have senioritis so I lost my drive for school when I know it's almost as important as Church and family. This has been going on for years so I'm afraid it's going to get to the point where I don't go on my mission or end up slacking in college and disappointing myself and my family. Please may I have some advice?!

I'm an 18 year old priest in my ward who had masturbation & pornography problems for a couple of years. A week ago I finally went to my bishop and told him about my sins. He told me what I need to do so I'm working on it. I'm still in the repenting process but I get the urge to do those things again and I committed those sins again. Is it ok for me to do it because I'm in the process? What should I do now? I know I made a horrible mistake.