Set apart, then the home MTC.

Your stake president sets your missionary apart as close as he can to the date their mission begins. Shortly before, he or a counselor interviews them.

Family members and close friends may attend. The stake president may invite worthy Melchizedek Priesthood holders, such as your missionary's father, to stand with him.

The setting apart and its blessing shouldn't be recorded. Your missionary is encouraged to write about it in their journal instead.

They're asked to be set apart and endowed before their at-home training begins. If there's no way to receive the endowment before then, they can receive it at the MTC.

Once set apart, your missionary follows the missionary standards at home, including the missionary schedule and the dress and appearance standards.

Their stake president is their priesthood leader during at-home training, and the one to ask how a rule applies at home.

Apart from their younger brothers and sisters, they shouldn't be alone with children.

They can use their own phone for training. The MTC asks them to avoid television, movies and video games, and to use social media only for their training and their work as a missionary.

On whether they can keep working a job, the MTC's answer is that their full efforts should go to preparing for their mission.

Training begins on the date in their call letter. A few days before, MTC teachers email them.

Most days have two online classes of about three hours, led by an MTC teacher, with workshops now and then. Around them come personal study, study with an online companion, and practice teaching.

A quiet, private place for classes helps. If home doesn't have one, your stake president may be able to help.

Their name tag is mailed to the address on their missionary application, just before training starts.

Your missionary has an online companion to study with. A family member doesn't need to be in the room for online classes.

But whenever they leave home, they should have a companion, most often a family member. So when they need to go out, someone in the family will often go with them.

If their online companion lives nearby, the two may meet for missionary activities, but not for overnight stays.

The MTC encourages your missionary to join appropriate family activities on preparation days (P-days) and Sundays, and to share what they're learning with the family.

You can help them practice teaching, or study with them.

Missing a class for a family situation is for extreme circumstances, approved by local leaders, and should be very rare.

If your missionary feels they need emotional support during training, the MTC tells them to start by talking with their parents, a priesthood leader or a local professional.

If they need to postpone their mission, they're asked to contact their stake president.

If their travel was arranged through the Missionary Portal, the details are emailed to their missionary.org address about two weeks before they leave for the MTC.

If no itinerary has come about two weeks before they travel, their stake president can contact Missionary Travel.

For drop-off day, read the MTC, from a parent's side.

This guide follows the Church's own pages, checked in November 2026. If anything here has changed, follow the Church's page.

• Provo MTC: At-Home MTC Training FAQ  (opens the Church's page in a new tab)
• General Handbook, 24: Missionary Recommendations and Service (24.5.3)  (opens the Church's page in a new tab)