LDS Return Missionary Email

[Evnhutchison]

Hello, I had recently came home from my mission in September, and was wondering if my email would be deleted or something...if not, great, if so how do i mass transfer my emails to a google drive?

[rmrichesjr]

There has been a lot of discussion on that topic in other threads. If you put "returned missionary email" (without the quotation marks) in the "Search Tech Forum" box, that will show you a lot. I seem to recall messages are deleted after a few months, so you might want to retrieve and/or transfer them sooner than later.

[cope_1]

Hello my name is Lauren! All of my pictures for my mission and emails were deleted off my phone! I was wondering if there was anyway I could get my mission or email back so I can recover those back on my phone! If you can get it back to me as soon as possible that way I can get these recovered that would be awesome thank you!
[Personal email removed]

[jevman]

Hi this is Jevin! I got back from my mission a few months ago.I was in the middle of transferring all my pictures and notes from my missionary email. I believe that I have some important stuff that I need to access. I thought they would give me a 2 week grace period. I was seeing if there is anyway I can get back to my missionary account? Thank you!

[rebeccabrimley]

Aloha,

My name is Rebecca and just recently my missionary email was deleted. I thought I had transferred a folder with all my mission insights over, but it turns out it was a "shortcut" and when my mission email got deleted so did this folder with all my insights. Is there any way for me to recover this?

Mahalo

[BrianEdwards]

If you follow the suggestion posted earlier in this thread, you can find for example this post:
You'll want to contact the Global Service Center...
From what I've seen discussed on the Forum, this seems to be the only solution that may work for cases like yours, I'm not aware of anything you can do from your side to recover the lost files yourself. Your local ward/branch clerk can help you get in contact with the GSC. Good luck, hopefully you can recover your insights/journals!

[Alessandra_11]

Hi! I was wondering if there is still a chance I can extend my missionary email and get my pictures back. I got back in May 2025 and never saved my pictures, which I don't know why. I think I was adjusting to being home, and the adjusting part made me forget about easy things like saving my mission pictures to my iCloud, hahah. I also got busy. I hope there is a way to get my pictures back. Most of my companions have the pictures, but not all of them. Thank you! My personal email is [email removed] if you have to reach me through, or if it's through here, great!

[jdlessley]

Hi! I was wondering if there is still a chance I can extend my missionary email and get my pictures back. I got back in May 2025 and never saved my pictures ...

The Tech Forum is primarily user-to-user discussion and collaborative self help. We have no connection to support or any other Church department. Your situation comes up frequently on the forum and there are other topic threads discussing the unfortunate situations return missionaries find themselves in regarding their email and photos. A Church employee, nmecantwin73, posted what you need to know in another topic thread, Myldsmail.net Missionary Email, and made this post providing information for missionary mail accounts. Follow his instructions in that post.