Helping our Consultants feel more comfortable in their calling!
- I get nervous when I feel I have to know everything...
- What if the Ward member takes the time to meet with me and I can't answer her questions
- I am a new member, I just know what the Consultant did for ME - how can I know enough to help others?
- I think the Bishop made a big mistake....I'm not ready to be a Consultant.
- I have done 3 one on one spiritual family history experiences and have been filled with anxiety with everyone. What if I make a mistake and they get on the wrong cloud with the wrong family?
- How can I work with the Primary Kids? They don't even know what a County, City, and State is....how can they do genealogy research?
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A Consultant's First Steps...
"A Nation “conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.”..” —that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
Notice that the word God was not left out of such an important speech. From the 2014 article in LDS Living we find that Abraham Lincoln and the Book of Mormon were not strangers.Lincoln and the Book of Mormon
In 1862, Lincoln’s conversion really heated up. What exactly was he being converted to? He was learning what Joseph Smith knew. He began seeing the Civil War the way Joseph Smith and Brigham Young saw it. Lincoln surprised the nation with the Emancipation Proclamation in the wake of his conversion and that powerful battlefield miracle. But the most important thing to understand is that the Proclamation represented the beginning of national repentance; it was the initial link in a chain of events that would lead to the 13th and 14th Amendments—to the end of slavery and to the constitutionally binding protection of temples in the land. “In giving freedom to the slave,” pronounced Lincoln, “we assure freedom to the free.” Lincoln was fulfilling Joseph Smith’s prophecies and bringing forth the national solutions the prophet had sought.
As a result of his conversion, Lincoln started to believe that God actually wanted this war in the land. Let us not take this for granted. It is a most bizarre thing for a president of the United States to believe—bizarre, that is, until coupled with the promises and prophecies of Joseph Smith. Lincoln was only saying what Joseph Smith had said. “And insomuch as we know that by His divine law, nations, like individuals, are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world,” declared Lincoln, “may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war which now desolates the land may be but a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole people?”
Smith of course had read such things in the Book of Mormon—the story of the covenant land of America. The story tells of how, in a covenant land, a wicked people may expect the humbling power of national calamities to befall them: “Except the Lord doth chasten his people with many afflictions, yea except he doth visit them with death and with terror . . . they will not remember him” (Helaman 12:3)."
Ted and Karen Meyer are inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Its coming! Our next Zoom meeting will be Saturday, July 11 at 5 pm to 6pm ARIZONA TIME. We will be discussing ideas to help Consultants feel comfortable with approaching members to set an apt to analyze their tree. Some feel they need to know everything before they assume the title of Consultant. We would like to show you a few things to increase their self confidence.
Thomas S. Monson once said, "We are going to make mistakes, but none of us can become an expert in family history work without first being a novice. Therefore, we must plunge into this work, and we must prepare for some uphill climbing. This is not an easy task, but the Lord has placed it upon you, and He has placed it upon me. "~https://www.
churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ liahona/2014/06/hastening-the- work?lang=eng
We will also have a guest from St George, Br Karl Tippets who will share his techniques for descendancy research.
Lastly we will be discussing the newest Family Search Partner which you will be able to have access to their data for French research.
Helping Consultants feel comfortable in their calling, Saturday, Jul 11 · 5–6 PM Arizona time
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Helping Consultants feel comfortable in their calling, Saturday, Jul 11 · 5–6 PM Arizona time
Ted and Karen Meyer are inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
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New Family Search partner!
This is a great article about our own leader, Elder Kevin Hamilton and family history. It is from familylocket.com, an excellent source for knowledge.
How to use Learn About Your Family
Elder Hamilton suggested that the Learn About Your Family tool is a great way to engage someone in learning more about their family history anytime, anywhere. The process is as simple as entering basic information about a deceased family member – perhaps a grandfather or grandmother – into the tool and clicking “Search.”
FamilySearch will then generate information about the surname: its meaning, how many people in the shared family tree have that surname, and where in the world it is found.
It will also bring up the top people in the family tree associated with that name, along with information about available records and a few pictures, prompting people to create a free account to learn more.
“Family history spans all cultures,” states Hamilton. When we start helping people discover something new and connect with their ancestors, then engage them with technology, “it fires off feelings of motivation. They catch on fire and start to go.”
Up All Night
Elder Hamilton illustrated this idea with a story about helping a new acquaintance learn more about his deceased grandfather. They entered the grandfather’s name into the Learn About Your Family tool, and when a photo of the friend’s grandpa showed up on the screen, the friend took the phone right out of Elder Hamilton’s hand as he exclaimed, “That’s my Grandpa! Give me that.” Elder Hamilton helped the man set up a FamilySearch account and they spent an hour exploring the man’s family. They also used the Family Tree app to check to see if they were related, and discovered they were 9th cousins. The man became emotional as he discovered more about his family. The next morning, Elder Hamilton received a call. The man had been up all night looking at his family history and had questions. Elder Hamilton was able to point him to the right people for additional help. Elder Hamilton said about helping people experience a taste of family history, “People get compelled. It’s compelling!”
Helping your Temple and Family History Leader to work with Ward Leaders to raise the convert retention numbers - watch our Zoom from last month!
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