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Radio Free Mormon

Mormon Mission Letters Home: RFM: 442

Radio Free Mormon

Mormon Discussion Inc

Religion & Spirituality

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2026

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

What is it like to be a Mormon missionary in Japan? RFM reflects on different aspects of his mission through the use of some recently acquired letters he himself wrote while serving his mission almost half a century ago!

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0:00.0

Radio Free Mormon here.

0:05.7

Broadcasting behind Enemy Live.

0:09.0

Episode 442 tonight, Mission Letters Home.

0:20.8

Hi, everybody. Thank you for joining me for this special episode of Radio Free Mormon.

0:25.6

Once again, the title of the show is Mission Letters Home.

0:29.3

I'm going to explain why it's a special episode here in Just Expectant.

0:33.3

This is an episode that I had not planned on doing, but on the other hand, I've been planning on doing it for a long time now.

0:40.0

I'll try and explain both of those contradictions here in just a matter of minutes.

0:45.3

But thank you for watching the show, and thank you for joining me.

0:48.7

This is going to be, as I say, a bit of a different kind of show.

0:51.9

I'm going to try and relax a little bit.

0:53.7

Instead of just always being so on, which I usually am, I'm going to try and fight against

0:59.3

that and act a little more like I'm not doing a podcast and just talking with you.

1:04.6

We'll see how it goes, okay?

1:06.6

So the first reason that I'm doing this is this is Friday morning.

1:11.4

It's Friday the 13th of February, 2006, and I'm in the studio.

1:17.6

And I'm exhausted right now.

1:19.6

Exhaust is probably too big a word.

1:21.2

Drained, tired.

1:22.8

I've had a very busy week.

1:24.1

I was in charge of the Mormonism live show on Wednesday, which went incredibly well,

1:29.2

I think. That was the interview with Professor Thomas Murphy. We've had Tom on before. And I've

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