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May I copy, down­load or use con­tent from this blog?

All con­tent posted to this blog is con­sid­ered to be copy­right pro­tected. Mem­bers and friends of the church may peruse, search, read, laugh at, be inspired by, copy, down­load, print and ref­er­ence con­tent in this blog free of charge with­out addi­tional writ­ten per­mis­sion from the blog owner or admin. You may also share con­tent from this blog, either posted by you or posted by some­body else, on social net­work­ing sites like face­book and twit­ter, and you may email links to this blog to peo­ple you know.

How­ever, you may not use con­tent from this blog in deflam­a­tory, anti-mormon, degrad­ing, humil­i­at­ing man­ners, and you may not copy, down­load, print or store con­tent for use in your book, news­pa­per, mag­a­zine, web site, another blog, or other pub­lished or printed mate­ri­als, or for the pur­pose of mak­ing money, with­out explicit writ­ten per­mis­sion from this blog’s own­ers or admin.

For more infor­ma­tion, see our Poli­cies page. 

What are cat­e­gories and tags?

Great ques­tion!

Cat­e­gories are cre­ated by the admin­is­tra­tor before hand. When you post a story you can select one or more appro­pri­ate cat­e­gories before it is pub­lished. Users can sort sto­ries by cat­e­gory very eas­ily.

Tags are sim­i­lar to cat­e­gories but they are cre­ated by the indi­vid­ual authors when posts are cre­ated and not by the admin­is­tra­tor. You can have mul­ti­ple tags for any one story, and you can have tags that may never be used for any other blog post.

You do not need to asso­ciate cat­e­gories or tags in your posts for posts to show up in search results. 

What type of con­tent is appro­pri­ate for this blog?

Any­one who has served a mis­sion for the Church of JESUS Christ of Lat­ter Day Saints can post mem­o­ries, jour­nal entries, tes­ti­mo­ni­als and sto­ries from their mis­sion­ary expe­ri­ences. Peo­ple may also post sto­ries about some­thing that may have hap­pened to a song, daugh­ter or other loved one while per­son served a mis­sion. Con­tent posted to this site should be true and accu­rate to the best of your abil­ity. How­ever, we do under­stand that some­times over the years our minds do change the details a bit and we allow for that (the fish seems to get a lit­tle big­ger every year!).

If you post a story that you know to be a rumor or a yarn, just let us know that you’re not sure if it’s true. If you post a story about some­thing you heard or learned 3rd party (your uncle’s son’s wife’s brother-in-law had it hap­pen to him…) just let us know.

Please avoid using real names, except when per­tain­ing to pub­lic peo­ple (like lead­ers in the church), places, etc. We don’t want to emberass any­one or hurt people’s feel­ings here.

If any­thing might be con­strued as degrad­ing, humil­i­at­ing, inflam­a­tory, hate related, or any­thing of the sort please don’t post it! I’d hate to see some­body stop going to church because of some­thing their ex-missionary com­pan­ion put on the Inter­net.

Please police your­selves and if you are con­cerned with any com­ments or posts let the admin know so that the post can be removed. 

Who can post?

Any­one can post sto­ries and any­one can com­ment on exist­ing posts. How­ever, we require users to be reg­is­tered and logged in before post­ing or com­ment­ing is allowed. 

Admin­is­tra­tion, Reg­is­tra­tion and Login

How do I login?

If you are already reg­isted as a user of this blog site, sim­ply click on the “Login” link at the right side of any page. Then enter your user­name and password.

Must I be a reg­is­tered user to post or com­ment on this blog?

Yes, to post or com­ment you must be a reg­is­tered user. You must also be a reg­is­tered user to rate con­tent on this blog.

If you have already reg­is­tered but are not logged in you may be per­mit­ted to make com­ments, rate con­tent and per­form other activ­i­ties because the blog posts a coookie on your com­puter when you first reg­is­ter and the site there­after knows you have pre-registered. Pretty fancy isn’t it!

Poli­cies

Is this web­site affil­i­ated with the Church of JESUS Christ of Lat­ter Day Saints (the Mormons)?

This web­site is inde­pen­dently owned and oper­ated, and it is in no way affil­i­ated with the Church of JESUS Christ of Lat­ter Day Saints (LDS church). How­ever, its owner(s) are long-time mem­bers of the LDS church and this web­site is intended for use pri­mar­ily by mem­bers of the LDS church. 

May I add links to my own web­site in my blog posts?

Adding links to blogs can be a great way to increase search engine traf­fic to your web­site. For that rea­son, we allow users to post a sin­gle link to their own per­sonal, non-business web site in any blog post. We do not allow mul­ti­ple links and we do not allow links to any busi­ness related web site, either pub­lic or pri­vate. The excep­tion is that we do allow links to any offi­cial web­site of the Church of JESUS Christ of Lat­ter Day Saints (LDS Church), and we allow links to mis­sion web­sites.

Inap­pro­pri­ate links will cause the post to be removed by the admin. This blog is not in the busi­ness of giv­ing your busi­ness free adver­tis­ing. Sorry. 

Which lan­guages are sup­ported in this blog?

This blog sup­ports both Eng­lish and Span­ish users and con­tent. That’s only because the admin speaks and reads Eng­lish and Span­ish. If I bring on another admin that speaks other lan­guages per­haps I will even­tu­ally pro­vide addi­tional support.