I just got off the phone with my wife and we're in trouble. See, I am to get on a plane and fly out to Utah tomorrow for a wedding. She is already there. As I was getting off the phone with her she reminded me to bring my temple recommend. I thought sure, it's already in my wallet, but then I got the sinking feeling. That horrible, horrible sinking feeling when you realize that the two year temple recommend that has served you so well has, well, expired. No, this is not like the time when you were in Spain and you can just call your bishop early in the morning because you forgot the recommend - this is much worse. So all the effort made to fly out to attend the solemn ceremony is for naught (we'll be there outside, but I don't like the symbolism).
So what do I propose? If recommends are tracked centrally (I believe they are), could we get them added to our profile on our unit website? Then allow us to set when to be reminded by email (2 months, 1 month out) that our recommends are almost expired. I realize that a small amount of effort on my part could have avoided this, but overall, I believe it would reduce the strain on Bishops and Stake Presidents' time as they have to interview us now and not their counselors.
I suspect this is happening more often now that the recommends are good for so long. We're just out of the habit of setting up those appointments.
