The Transfer Home – Interview with Hannah Smith – Podcast Episode 19 Latter-day Saint Mission Prep

This video and audio is episode 19 of the Latter-day Saint Mission Prep podcast recorded on Feb 12, 2024. In this podcast you will hear Hannah Smith talk about her transfer home at the end of her 18 month mission to Lisbon, Portugal for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We talk about the last weeks of her mission and her first week back home. We cover topics such as:

• How she approached the last week of her mission

• Saying goodbye to friends, members, and missionaries

• How to not get trunky

• Going to the mission home for her farewell interview with the mission president

• Traveling home and meeting her family at the airport

• Being released: meeting with Stake Pres

• Homecoming talk and open house

• Getting back into life with family and work

• Goals, My Plan, challenges, growth, testimony, and much more

The transcript of the interview can be found below (it’s automated, so I apologize for any typos) and an audio version can be found at the bottom of this post. For other video/podcast episodes, check out the Latter-day Saint Mission Prep podcast page.

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Smith, Jimmy

Welcome to another edition of the Latter Day St Mission Prep podcast.

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Smith, Jimmy

I’m here today with my daughter Hannah, who just got back from her mission to Lisbon, Portugal.

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Smith, Jimmy

So she’s gonna tell us all about that today.

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Smith, Jimmy

The topic for today’s podcast I’m calling it.

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Smith, Jimmy

This is my draft, I might change it when I published it.

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Smith, Jimmy

I’m calling it the transfer home.

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Smith, Jimmy

We’re we’re primarily going to talk about the last week of your mission and your first week back home after you mentioned you’ve been home.

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Smith, Jimmy

I think about two weeks, but we’re going to focus on that.

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Smith, Jimmy

Last week in the mission and the first week home after the mission, so that that that transition from being a missionary full time to being a.

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Smith, Jimmy

Uh, yes.

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Smith, Jimmy

Uh, a normal ladder?

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Smith, Jimmy

Non missionary, Latter day St.

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Smith, Jimmy

So anyway, that’s what we’re going to talk about today.

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Smith, Jimmy

In fact, I prepared a little agenda.

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Smith, Jimmy

I’m going to share briefly.

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Smith, Jimmy

We’ll see how how this works.

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Smith, Jimmy

Uh, OK, not not as smooth as I thought.

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Smith, Jimmy

But anyway, we’re gonna talk about.

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Smith, Jimmy

Uh, uh, you how’s the approach?

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Smith, Jimmy

The her last week in the mission field, we’ll talk about your interview with your mission president.

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Smith, Jimmy

I’ll talk about traveling home.

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Smith, Jimmy

Uh,