I distinctly remember getting an unexpected phone call on a Friday afternoon. I didn’t recognize the number except that it was from Utah. As I answered, one of the Provo Missionary Training Center (MTC) presidents told me two things: 1. Our son was being sent home from the MTC. 2. We needed to get on a plane as soon as possible to come get him. My heart was flooded with simultaneous emotions of bewilderment, anxiety, and sadness. A few hours later we were on a plane from Portland to Salt Lake City. My mind raced with questions: Why was he coming home? What would the future hold? What could we have done to better prepare him? We soon learned our son had an undiagnosed anxiety condition. The stressors of full-time missionary service had exacerbated his distress to the point of needing to be released.