Stories
Keep the stories. Save the voices.
Practical guides to preserving family stories, saving a loved one’s voice, and keeping a personal record — alongside quiet notes on faith and craft.
- 01Faith & technology · Sep 23, 20268 min listen
No one should sit alone with a chatbot
Elder Gong on confiding in chatbots — 'soliloquy masquerading as dialogue' — why prayer is its opposite, and the finger-on-nose promise the rest of us make.
by Andrew→ - 02On keeping · Sep 23, 20267 min listen
Signed with an X
Elder Gong tells how computer tools and a genealogist walking the rows found Sister Gong's ancestors in unmarked graves — and the record no tool can find.
by Andrew→ - 03Faith & technology · Sep 23, 20267 min listen
The candle in the lit room
Elder Gong's candle, the kitchen fan, and a dark-sky night: why the light we miss is usually outshone, not gone — and one evening this week that needs no app.
by Andrew→ - 04Company · Sep 22, 20266 min listen
The life behind the words
Decades of serving in the Church shape the care I bring to UNA. That care begins with listening.
by Andrew→ - 05On keeping · Aug 21, 20268 min listen
Two songs called 'Slow Down'
Elder Patrick Kearon built a BYU Education Week devotional around 'Slow Down' — the song Sissel sang and President Ballard once sent him. I wrote one too.
by Andrew→ - 06Company · Jul 31, 20262 min listen
UNA is on the App Store
The quiet place is open. What the first release holds, what's still ahead, and the one thing worth doing tonight.
by Andrew→ - 07On keeping · Jul 23, 2026
The homecoming interview — ten questions for the first week home
Ten questions for a returned missionary, with room for the stories beyond the homecoming talk. Ask permission, record gently, and save the account files too.
by Andrew→ - 08On keeping · Jul 23, 2026
Is FamilySearch Memories private? How to check who can see a memory
FamilySearch Memories has public, private, and family-group sharing options. Here's how to check a memory's visibility and decide what belongs there.
by Andrew→ - 09Faith & technology · Jul 23, 20264 min listen
The voice, not a ghost
A new industry offers to simulate the people you've lost. There's a better inheritance — the real voice, kept while it's alive — and a reason of covenant to prefer it.
by Andrew→ - 10Craft & design · Jul 23, 20264 min listen
Why reflections never give advice
UNA's reflections will never tell you what to do — no 'you should,' no verdicts, no counsel. The design philosophy behind that refusal, and the doctrine it defers to.
by Andrew→ - 11Faith & technology · Jul 21, 20266 min listen
Elder Gong on AI: a member's guide to 'Hearing God's Voice'
Elder Gerrit W. Gong's 2026 series 'Faith, Dignity, and Human Flourishing: Hearing God's Voice in an Age of AI' — the four relationships, three guideposts, and four invitations, with quotes and where to watch.
by Andrew→ - 12Faith & technology · Jul 21, 20264 min listen
Should AI write your sacrament meeting talk?
What the General Handbook and Elder Gong actually say about using new tools for talks and lessons — the plain answer, the reason behind the line, and where help is honestly help.
by Andrew→ - 13Faith & technology · Jul 21, 20265 min listen
What has the Church said about AI? A plain-language guide
From the 2024 guiding principles to General Handbook 38.8.48 and recent apostolic addresses — what The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has actually taught about AI, in one place, with sources.
by Andrew→ - 14On keeping · Jul 13, 20264 min listen
A people who write things down
Keeping a record isn't a hobby for Latter-day Saints — it's the opening line of the revelation given the day the Church was organized. What the prophets actually said, and the gap most of us haven't noticed.
by Andrew→ - 15On keeping · Jul 13, 2026
How to save a loved one's voicemail and voice
Save a voicemail from your iPhone, make a separate backup, and record a loved one's stories with permission. Small steps to keep the voice itself.
by Andrew→ - 16On keeping · Jul 13, 20263 min listen
The questions you can't ask out loud
For the ones sitting in the pew with a list they've never said anywhere. Writing a question down isn't betrayal — it might be the most honest act of faith you make this year.
by Andrew→ - 17On keeping · Jul 13, 20263 min listen
Before we get to Malachi
Come, Follow Me reaches the turning of hearts this December. A quiet way to arrive at those verses with more than a lesson plan.
by Andrew→ - 18On keeping · Jul 13, 20263 min listen
Your missionary's emails are a record — save them like one
The weekly email is the most complete account of a mission that will ever exist, and it lives in an account the family doesn't own. How to keep it safe, starting this week.
by Andrew→ - 19On keeping · Jul 11, 2026
10 questions to ask your grandmother — and how to record her stories
Ten family interview questions, with a simple plan for permission, recording, naming files, and saving copies of your grandmother’s stories.
by Andrew→ - 20On keeping · Jul 3, 2026
How to save mission photos before account access changes
Download mission photos from Google Photos, export available records with Google Takeout, and check your copies before a managed account closes.
by Andrew→ - 21On keeping · Jun 2, 20261 min listen
Write one true thing
The whole practice of keeping fits in a single honest line.
by Andrew→ - 22Craft & design · May 19, 20261 min listen
Why UNA has no streaks
On building a quiet tool in a category that runs on pressure.
by Andrew→ - 23Company · Apr 28, 20261 min listen
Named after my grandmother
The story behind UNA’s name, and the promise it carries.
by Andrew→ - 24Craft & design · Apr 10, 20262 min listen
How I keep it safe
Not the privacy policy — the reasoning behind it, plainly and without a lecture.
by Andrew→ - 25Company · Mar 5, 20261 min listen
Independent, on purpose
Why UNA answers to the people who use it, and no one else.
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No stories here yet.
Your story is worth keeping too.
Begin with Today and Sacred. Together, Tomorrow, and Mission remain an honest horizon.