I initially began my technology abstinence during spring break. My wife, son and I were in Ohio on a short trip to see where my wife served her mission. She was in the Ohio Cleveland Mission and served at the Kirtland Historic Sites as well. Since she knew where we were going I figured that would be a perfect time to do a 48-hour technology fast.
I was about 24 hours into the fast when I ran into some problems that eventually caused me to use my computer and cell phone. It's a long story between there and the end result, so I'll skip right to it. My wife had an ectopic pregnancy while on our trip and had to have emergency surgery almost as soon as we got home. Because of that I used my computer to help her look up symptoms and my phone to work on getting a hold of our doctor here in St. George. So my first attempt at technology abstinence failed, but I still had time to do it.
I have been the baseball team's beat writer for the Dixie Sun and was struggling to find a time to do the abstinence because they play on weekends and I needed my computer for school during the week. I ended up having to do the last weekend possible, Easter weekend. The last two days I have been technologically fasting and it really wasn't too hard. I was up in the mountains on Saturday, so my phone didn't work and I didn't take my computer. My stake had stake conference this weekend though and Saturday night they announced a lot of changes with the boundaries and added two wards to our stake. I was gone Saturday when they announced it and I found out on Sunday. I really wanted to look up the changes on the stake website, but was able to refrain. I did get a lot of texts and emails that I had to pilfer through, but that was no big deal.
Overall I didn't really care for the abstinence because I mainly wanted to use it to keep up on the sports world.
