When you register for your account on LDS Pals, you’ll include the usual sign up information (email, username, password, etc.) to get your member login and some basics of your profile as well, such as: Gender, Hair color, Eye color, Height, Body type, Marital status, Child status, Mission status, Church attendance.
This is filled out at registration in order for people to be able to search for your profile from the start rather than potential matches skipping over your profile because it’s empty. Use a mobile login on your Facebook app to find some of your best pictures.
Though the majority of the profile is done during registration, there are a few other categories and areas to fill out in order to provide more details than the bare minimum, such as including a photo. These include options that other dating services don’t include in their profiles, or at least not asking it directly. This way, if you see missing information on some profile questions, you can ask them about it through messages to get a full picture.
These extra categories include: Temple worthy, Temple recommended, Endowed, Education, Occupation, City, State.
An awkward but interesting choice, once you enter the profile page to expand your dating profile, you cannot leave the education, city and state points blank though they were not required during registration.
All accounts on LDS Pals are considered a free account, features beyond what you already see are not hidden from view. So there is no need for a basic plan, much less premiums plan, to purchase in order to access more or better features on the website. These free features include keyword searching, save searches, the ability to see who has looked at your profile, a flash chart, profile content ranking, and the ability to upload unlimited photos.
When searching on LDS Pals for a potential match, you have several different options on how to search LDS Pals users. You can look to see who’s new to the site under “Who’s New” which also allows you to filter the results by age range and how new their account is. This is handy if already know how to search on LSD Pals and you’re on top of your game on the website and only need to look at who’s new in your area or if you’ve been gone a week and know that you only need to look through the last week’s new users.
The advanced search allows you to specify all forms of criteria and preferences based on the same types of information you’ve put into your profile. You can search profiles, filter out ones that don’t have any pictures, search by city, search by username, look for specific keywords found anywhere in their profile and so on. You can save different sets of search criteria to circle through at a later date, if you’re so inclined.
When you find someone you think you can connect with, you’ll be able to find a link on their profile or from the search results screen that says “message.” You’ll be able to view sent and received messages from the “Message” page which you can access using the button labeled “Messages.” If you’re familiar with computers, the message system is set up very similar to email services and you can treat it very similarly. This search mobile first system makes it rather easy to get started messaging.
How to cancel your LDS Pals subscription? Whether you’ve found someone, found a better website or decided this site isn’t for you, you can go ahead and delete your account. To do this, all you have to do is navigate to the “Account” page and there is an option on this page to “Remove Account.” When you click on this, you’ll be given an optional survey to tell them why you’re leaving, how you’d rate your experience with LDS Pals.
The website is easy to navigate with a simple design, allowing users to focus on the real reason they’re on LDS Pals: to find a match. A good portion of the users on this website are middle age and older, many of whom are parents or have adult children, but the majority of users are around their mid-twenties. Still, the users are universal in their faith and desire to seek a partner that’s for life with the intention of starting a family. If you come across anyone that seems to be disingenuous, there is an option to rate users in order to warn other users.