elwplm746947

thank you SO much. this is definitely some wisdom + advice I needed to hear. I love this gospel and you’re right. sure I would love + my dream is to go back to any part of the Lords vineyard to serve my last four months but I should just be content with whatever the outcome is. SO grateful  for your comment — this is why I shared my story here! Thank you! 

thank you SO much. this is definitely some wisdom + advice I needed to hear. I love this gospel and you’re right. sure I would love + my dream is to go back to any part of the Lords vineyard to serve my last four months but I should just be content with whatever the outcome is. SO grateful  for your comment — this is why I shared my story here! Thank you! 

thank you SO much. this is definitely some wisdom + advice I needed to hear. I love this gospel and you’re right. sure I would love + my dream is to go back to any part of the Lords vineyard to serve my last four months but I should just be content with whatever the outcome is. SO grateful  for your comment — this is why I shared my story here! Thank you! 

@elwplm746947 I am so sorry! I can feel your frustration. You want to do the right thing. 
Any large group of people has rules and regulations...a bureaucracy.  In a bureaucracy run by volunteers and people from different professions and different backgrounds, it is amazing that anything gets done at all! Add to that the fact that most of the work of the church is carried out by untrained people who devote a limited hours a week after their ‘real jobs’ are done and it is kind of amazing that we haven’t set the world on fire! Unfortunately this ragtail army of tired and overstressed volunteers is all Heavenly Father has to work with.
Sorry. I feel frustrated as well and so do many of us. If you come from an area of Zion, where the Church runs smoothly, you are very lucky indeed. As we are a world -wide church  a few hiccups are inevitable. I would take a deep breath and just continue to do your best. If you are a willing worker, God will have work for you somewhere. I was introduced to the gospel by a 14 year old girl who walked through life being a witness of God to many people. You can serve God anywhere.
If you choose at some point to move to an area of the country in which there are few church members, you will soon find yourself with many opportunities to serve. In fact, in my ward, we would be thrilled to have you! 
Forgive us. We are tired, overwhelmed and confused, but we are grateful to have you here to help! 
If you ever feel as though there are not sufficient opportunities to serve, just post on this forum and we will have some suggestions. If you would like to serve in a calling in the church in which people depend on you, just move somewhere in which there are not many church people. If you look at the Find a Meeting House tool on lds.org, I am sure that you can find a spot.
So .... Canada is very nice..just saying! If you do a degree in Canada, we give you 3 years to find a job and then we let you stay! Very nice country. 
So maybe, you don’t get to finish the mission. Honestly there are lots of other ways to serve! If you are understandably concerned about explaining the mission story for the next few years, you could go to school in a less lds place and have a cool calling instead. Brandon Manitoba. Lovely place! Both a college and a University! I am sure that we will find a way to make use of your skills. 
 

Welcome, @elwplm746947!  I can't share any related experience, but I second what @NeuroTypical said - decide now that no matter what happens, you will continue on the path.  I'm confident the Lord knows you and knows best what will help you to come home eventually - trust that.

Here's the recent experiences in our ward:  About, maybe 5? years ago, 2 young men and a young woman from our ward left for their missions.  All 3 came home early due to medical issues.  The young woman, who was initially sent to Brazil, went back to the mission field and got assigned to a mission only 2 states away from us.  She came home early again.  The young men didn't go back.  I don't know if they reapplied but just was not given another opportunity or if they just didn't reapply.  One of them ended up joining the military.
 

If you have the chance to finish up the rest of the few months of the mission, I'd say go and finish up those few months.

Hi and welcome elwplm!  Honestly, no matter what happens, your road is kind of the same.  Just walk the path of a disciple of Christ, no matter what.  If you return to the mission field, walk the path there.  If you are reassigned to a home-country mission, walk there.  Released and 'thanks for your service'?  Walk your path at home.
Thinking about things this way helps me deal with the uncertainties of my life.  When big changes out of my control might be coming, I find it comforting to think about how I can be a disciple, be everything God wants from me, no matter what the actual change.