What does it cost?
$19.99, paid once. That covers 30 months of tracking and every poster download the family wants, in any size. There is no subscription, nothing renews, and no card is kept on file.
Why 30 months and not 24?
Because a mission is longer than the mission. The page starts counting the moment you create it — often months before day one — and stays up well after homecoming. Thirty months covers the wait, the mission itself, and plenty of time after. Eighteen-month missions have room to spare.
How many times can we download the poster?
As many as you like. It is filled in to the day you press the button, so most families download it again every few months and watch the circles fill. Six print sizes from 8×10″ up to 20×30″, print-ready, at the right resolution for each size.
Is this the missionary countdown poster I have seen before?
It is that poster, kept up to date. The classic missionary wall poster has a circle for every day of the mission, coloured in one at a time; this draws the same thing from the page's own dates, over the flag of the country or state they serve in, and fills the circles in for you up to the day you download it. Eight designs, six print sizes from 8×10″ to 20×30″, and you can download it again whenever you want to reprint a fuller one.
Can we count the days served as well as the days left?
Both, at once. The page leads with the day number — day 487 of 731 — and counts the days remaining down to the second beside it. There are also counters for months, weeks, hours and seconds in each direction, Sundays and P-days left, and the Christmases still to come; you choose which of them the page shows.
Is this the same as an LDS mission countdown or a Mormon missionary poster?
Same thing, different names. Families look for this as a missionary countdown poster, an LDS missionary tracker, a mission countdown chart, a missionary day counter, or a Mormon missionary poster — it is all the one idea: a circle for every day of the mission, filled in as the days go by, with a live page counting alongside it. (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints asks that its members be called Latter-day Saints rather than Mormons, so that is the language this site uses.)
Does it work for an LDS mission?
That is who it is built for. It speaks in Elder and Sister, areas and companions, transfers, P-day and homecoming, and it carries all 281 flags — every country and territory, every US state — so a mission anywhere is covered. Nothing about it is restricted to one church, though: any service of a fixed length can be tracked the same way.
Is my missionary's page private?
Yes — unlisted rather than locked. Every page lives at its own unguessable link, is listed nowhere on this site, and search engines are told to stay out. There is no password or encryption, though: anyone with the link can open it, and a forwarded link keeps working — that is what lets grandparents and the whole ward follow along from the one link. So keep personal and financial details off the page: no home addresses, phone numbers, or anything to do with money.
Do the people we share it with pay anything?
No. It is free for everyone you share it with; the one fee is yours. Send the link to as many people as you like — parents, grandparents, the ward, the group chat — and they open it like any web page, with nothing to install. A forwarded link keeps working. The page itself lives in your account, which is where you look after it; if you set a password, it only guards editing, and reading never needs one.
Can we change things after we set it up?
All of it, from the page itself: their name, the mission, both dates, the flag, the mission's time zone and city, which weekday is P-day, and how many ruled lines the areas and companions lists carry. Areas and companions are edited from the page too — adding a new one closes the current one on the same date, the way a transfer does.
Which flags can the page carry?
Any of them: every US state, DC, and every country and territory — 281 flags. Pick it by name and the poster flies it at true flag proportions, with the mission's own country or state traced over it.
We are following two missionaries. Do we pay twice?
Each page is its own $19.99, once — one missionary, one page. What is free is the keyring that holds them: one link showing every mission you follow, side by side. Make one at /my.
What happens after homecoming?
The countdown reaches zero and the page stays up. Download the poster one more time and every circle is filled.