It truly DOES take a Village....doesn't it?

It really DOES take a Village to raise a child...but how about a new member?

You have no doubt heard the phrase, "It takes a village to raise a child!"  Well of course, a new member is not a child, but we are all Children of God and their fragile testimony sometimes weighs upon getting out of bed as to, "Will anyone talk to me today?" to determine if they will come to Church.  We know we are better than this and we can do the little things God has asked us to do to help them feel more comfortable.  

Of course, we all have our own problems, families, and concerns that probably, we fall prey to Satan's whispers too when we get up...."Will anyone care if I don't come?"  Well, yes.  God cares...and all the members.   

Sometimes people's plates are so full they are tempted to say, "that's not in my job description, I don't have to do that."  "I wasn't called to do that..."  "It's not my calling..."  

I submit to you that when dealing with a new member, a new friend, a new neighbor in your neighborhood, everyone was called to Serve One another.  Everyone was called to Love one Another.  If you don't believe, me, I promise you, I can belt out that song while you are waiting.

Let's try harder.



From Br. Ted and Karen S Meyer, Area Temple and Family History Consultants
Scottsdale Coordinating Council

President Marc B. Robinson took the time to show the new Preach My Gospel additions and revisions showing the close parallels and ties to the importance of Family History

President Marc B. Robinson and Sr. Leann Malan Robinson

 

President Robinson gave us some great insight as to the new Manual and Opportunities to Serve one Another.  

HOW DO YOU KEEP TRACK OF CONVERT TRAINING?

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Whether you are a Stake or Ward Lead, you are tasked with helping Investigators work with consultants and Missionaries with progression towards baptism.

During that time, there are several things that must happen.

1.  Who has been assigned to help them?
2.   As an investigator, have they been given a login and password?
3.   Have they started their tree?
4.   What is the baptism date?
5.   What is the 30 day mark towards the 60 day goal?
6.   What is your 60 day target date?
7    Post Baptism - have they been signed up for Partner Access?
8.   Have they learned the Consultant Planner?
9.   Do they have a limited use recommend?
10. Do they know how to reserve a name?
11.  Have they printed names?
12.  What was the date of the first visit to the temple with their names?

What if you had an excel workbook that you entered the data and it kept track of the numbers?

UPDATED 5/29/ 258PM - BETTER VERSION - MADE SURE THERE ARE NO LOCKED CELLS, BUT USE PASSWORD TEMPLE IF YOU WANT TO TWEAK IT FOR YOUR WARD

DOWNLOAD HERE

FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS TO GET IT SET UP:

This is working!  We have been getting messages that the Bishops/TFHCs are editing the sheets.

We updated the formulas in my Tracking spreadsheet - My husband is a mathematician and made it a lot more professional.    Here is our better version - I'm going to send it to others.

We created an account at onedrive.com

Created a folder for each Stake

Created a folder for each ward in that folder

Then saved a template as each ward name

Lastly created an excel sheet for our Mission President who wants to be informed and updated often of all the shared links, by ward....by Stake.  All he has to do is open one excel file and click on any ward he wants.

As long as no one changes your links and tries to do a "save as" to their system, your Leads can keep it updated for the Presidents/ (Stake and Mission) to keep "in the know!"

Excel is Microsoft Office - and it works very well with onedrive.com....google drive stops and hesitates with MSO products.

How do you get Youth to encourage Less Actives and Converts to do Family HIstory?

We are always trying to come up with innovative ways to involve Young Women and Young Men in Family History.  We have started encouraging extending callings them to become Temple and Family History Consultants.  With:

www.thefhguide.com 

This is an almost instant training program to get them off and running, to teaching them how to use the Consultant planner

www.familysearch.org/ask/planner

They can become a Ward Hero in 5 minutes as it shows them how to find instant successes, i.e., Temple Opportunities, Find a Grave records and Vital Records to attach to files, Memories of Pioneers and War Heroes to attach are easily pointed out to them for "click on me" instant access.

Their confidence  increases as their success record increases and exudes smiles on their audience.  It's a blessing to see!  So to complete the invitation, I created some cards to get them excited about coming in and experiencing Find, Take and Teach.  Here is a picture of what the Young Women could create to take to less actives and new converts.

When someone has a fan chart on their wall, those spirits, no doubt, reach out to them from beyond the veil and remind them that they are still there everytime the person walks by the chart.    I'm convinced that most people don't know how to get started and just need an invitation. Having your ancestors greet you daily will help us not to forget the great sacrifices they made for us to be here today. My favorite is the one on the lower 

I will scan these into a pdf and upload them to our blogs at naswfamilysearch.blogspot.com and genealogymama1.blogspot.com.  I hope these bring you joy and rallied interest in family history which will bring the Lord's work to Pass.  You can download these if you want to make some cards with a fan chart.

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Blessings to all!

Br Ted and Sr Karen Meyer,
North America South West
Temple and Family History Consultants
Scottsdale Coordinating Council
email us anytime:  genealogymama1@gmail.com or
naswfamilyhistory@gmail.com