Jacob Biesinger wrote:
You may still want to get an account if you can. Tell your mom to use
it every once in a while to keep it active. The reason why is that
your next mission president may allow it. With the changing of the
guard there are always changes in policies.
Nope- they just changed presidents July 1st. Although the letter I received was from the previous president. Well, cool.
I think the church is fairly set on using their own email setup, so missionaries aren't seen using yahoo or hotmail with nearly pornographic advertisements. I do have a friend that uses Hotmail in a Chilean mission, but that's the only exception I'm aware of.
I would tell you to set up BYU email forwarding so that you wouldn't have to change your accounts at all, but I just remembered that BYU locks down your account while you are on your mission. It can't be found on Route Y at all. (Unless they changed that in the last year or so). I would still try to set it up to forward to you LDS mail account in case someone sent you mail there, but I don't think it will work. Like He suggested though, you could forward all the mail you want to save to your Gmail account. Most free email providers clear out accounts after 6 months of inactivity, so it would require someone to refresh your accounts (Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, whoever) occasionally.
Scott K
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