I was wondering how long a screenname has to be idle on hatrack before it is deleted.
I am wondering this because I turned 19 today, and I am leaving for my mission in a few months, and I was wondering if my account would still exist when I return.
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
No clue about the screen name question.
The mission's exciting, have you turned in your papers yet?
Hobbes Posted by CStroman (Member # 6872) on :
My nephew just left to BRAZIL last tuesday.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
I don't know that they're ever deleted, honestly. My original login was idle for...oh, probably two years before I tried signing on with it again, and it was ready and waiting for me.
Posted by MEC (Member # 2968) on :
Yes, I have turned in my papers, and awaiting the reply.
Posted by Derrell (Member # 6062) on :
You're going to Indiana on your mission. Hey, I don't want to be the only one here who went to Indiana. Besides, it's a cool place.
Derrell Posted by Anna (Member # 2582) on :
You should report your own post to have a moderator answer your question. Posted by MEC (Member # 2968) on :
I know it is, I lived there for a few years
Posted by CStroman (Member # 6872) on :
No, he'll be sent to the BYU-Idaho mission.
Good luck!
Posted by Lerris (Member # 3530) on :
Mention of Indiana spurs a question. I work in a library here in Indiana and we usually have one or two pairs of missionaries here and they always have me wondering, why Indiana? So I guess that is my question, why Indiana? Why anywhere actually? I must say that I always enjoy seeing the missionaries, they are always very pleasent.
Posted by Jim-Me (Member # 6426) on :
I hope they stay... I'm trying to keep my first screen name permanently stuck at 2112 posts
[ October 08, 2004, 03:28 PM: Message edited by: Jim-Me ]
Posted by MEC (Member # 2968) on :
I wonder how many people stopped posting after they hit 1337?
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Jim-Me, just to make sure it's still working properly you should log into it and post something in this thread.
Posted by CStroman (Member # 6872) on :
You'll see missionaries at the library because they can now E-mail their families on their free days.
As to why send out missionaries, it's to place a live person out in the those communities in the world with a message that some may be looking for.
Kinda like a lifeguard. Unless you need one and are looking for one, you really don't need them. But if the time comes you are in need, it's nice to have one accessible.
IMHO, They're there with a message to share if anyone wants to hear it.
Posted by Nato (Member # 1448) on :
Well, I know one person who stopped posting when she hit 1000, but I'm not sure anybody chose 1337 as a good stopping point.
Posted by Lerris (Member # 3530) on :
Thanks for the point about email CStroman. It sounds like this is a change. Did is used to be a basic training thing where you have no outside, ie family, contact, for the duration or a set time? I believe I understand the general idea behind the missionary goal, but I was wondering how people are sent? Namely the process by which the decision is made to send missionaries to Indiana or France or where have you.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Here's a quick answer:
First, you decided that you want to go on a mission. There is a lot of paperwork involved, including interviews with ecclesiastical leaders and physcals.
You send the papers to the church headquarters, and then they (usually) send you a letter telling you where and when you are called to serve, and when and where you should show up to start. You usually server in the same general area for 2 years (men) or 1.5 years (women).
You pretty much have no say in where you will serve. They ask what languages you know, and how interested you are in learning a new language, but they are famous for sending somebody fluent in Russian to Japan, or some such thing.
[ October 08, 2004, 04:11 PM: Message edited by: mr_porteiro_head ]
Posted by celia60 (Member # 2039) on :
is "physcals" a mix of health assessment and financial stability?
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
No, but they do ask about your mental health in the paperwork.
Posted by celia60 (Member # 2039) on :
dude, don't answer my jokes with actual information! Posted by CStroman (Member # 6872) on :
quote: Thanks for the point about email CStroman. It sounds like this is a change. Did is used to be a basic training thing where you have no outside, ie family, contact, for the duration or a set time? I believe I understand the general idea behind the missionary goal, but I was wondering how people are sent? Namely the process by which the decision is made to send missionaries to Indiana or France or where have you.
When I served my mission in Guatemala the only correspondence between yourself and your family was by Letter once a week and by two telephone calls a year (once on Mother's Day and once on Christmas). This is done to minimize the outside distractions to the work you are doing. If you spend all day worrying about things back home, you can't very well focus on what you should be doing where you are.
When you submit your paperwork requesting to be able to serve a mission, one of the leaders of the church sits at a computer and matches the names of the applicants with the areas of the world in need of missionaries. (they try to keep a rotation going of missionaries going home and those going out).
Once you get your call there is a date when you officially become a missionary be either flying to the country where you serve to a training facility there, or flying to an international training center in Utah. The training center is NOT a theological training center (you are to develop your faith before) but a center where you are introduced to the language or culture of your destination and also introduced to the rigors of missionary life. After a couple of weeks training you are sent out to your area where you serve. There you are assigned a companion, but they change every couple of months usually and you are assigned to an area, which also changes usually every couple of months.
On a practical level, missionaries are sent where they are needed (where there are vacancies). Many times they are sent to foreign countries if they have in their personal histories the ability to learn a foreign language.
On a spiritual level, missionaries are sent where God wants them and there is the belief that in the selection of where they serve is a bit of "inspiration".
But missionaries are human beings in their late teens if males and early twenties if female. Some serve well and do what they should and some don't as in all walks of life.
I hope that answers your questions of my opinions of it at least.
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
Also, the screenname "MEC" always makes me chuckle, because in French slang, it translates roughly to "dude."
Posted by Anna (Member # 2582) on :
I never dared to say. Posted by Lerris (Member # 3530) on :
Yes that does pretty much answer my questions. Thank you very much.
Posted by Anna (Member # 2582) on :
To Lerris : A librarian ? You should fit well here ! Since I don't think I told you on another thread, welcome here !
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
Lerris, where in Indiana, what library. I (and a ton of other hatrackers) are in Bloomington. We are having a campout here october 22nd to 24th.
Posted by MEC (Member # 2968) on :
quote: Also, the screenname "MEC" always makes me chuckle, because in French slang, it translates roughly to "dude."
Really? My father told me it translated to guy, he learned french on his mission to france.
I choose MEC as my screenname because they are my initals, Marcus Edward Crowley. It also looks similar to mech, or machine.
Posted by CStroman (Member # 6872) on :
You'll be "Elder Crowley" very soon.
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
Guy is a good translation of it too. It's just a casual way to talk about a guy... or a dude.
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