I understand from others I've met at FH Conferences that some wards/stakes are calling youth to be Family History consultants and I would like to know what the churches position is on this practice. I feel it would be a very good experience for Priests preparing for a mission. Can someone elaborate on this and perhaps if you've done it tell me of your experience. Thank you! Chuck Woodings, Ward Family History Consultant

One of our young Priests was called as a Family History Consultant just yesterday.  He is already an Indexer, so his main focuses will be to encourage and help other youth to do Indexing, as well as helping them with Fan Charts and doing projects with older members of our ward. He is excited about this and looking forward to the challenge!   Families Are Forever Carol Riner Everett ________________________________ From: Chuck Woodings <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, March 4, 2012 11:02 PM Subject: [LDS-WC] Calling youth for FH Consultants I understand from others I've met at FH Conferences that some wards/stakes are calling youth to be Family History consultants and I would like to know what the churches position is on this practice.  I feel it would be a very good experience for Priests preparing for a mission. Can someone elaborate on this and perhaps if you've done it tell me of your experience. Thank you! Chuck Woodings, Ward Family History Consultant Please send the one word message SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE to [email protected] ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Last November our stake called a ward family history consultant to head up teaching the youth. They called a laurel and priest from each ward to be trained by her. They gave them a minimum of training as per Elder Bednar's talk; ie. they brought them to our FHC, showed them the youth videos, and put them on computers in NFS, challenging them to find someone that evening who needed temple work. We are a Utah Stake without many recent convert families. They did not tell them that there were errors in NFS, about looking for duplicates, or that some people who show they need temple work might not need it because there are vast errors in that person's relationships. I personally felt that more training needed to be done at that point. They they sent these youth to their wards to train others of the same age during sunday school time. They are following the "member's guide" manual, and trying very hard, but I was told yesterday the youth are really not engaging with them. That's how its going in my ward. > Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 21:02:25 -0700 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [LDS-WC] Calling youth for FH Consultants > > I understand from others I've met at FH Conferences that some wards/stakes > are calling youth to be Family History consultants and I would like to know > what the churches position is on this practice. I feel it would be a very > good experience for Priests preparing for a mission. > Can someone elaborate on this and perhaps if you've done it tell me of your > experience. > Thank you! > > Chuck Woodings, Ward Family History Consultant > > Please send the one word message SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE to [email protected] > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

When Elder Bednar gave his talk in General Conference--Oct 2011--he talked about the 3 young men teaching the class to their peers. Can't get much more endorsement than that--over the pulpit at General Conference from one of the Twelve!!!! No, he did not officially say-call them as consultants--but consultants are the ones who teach the classes. I would say it is ok. As Area Family History Advisers, we encourage wards and stakes to call young people as consultants. The earlier they get involved the better. On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 9:02 PM, Chuck Woodings <[email protected]>wrote: > I understand from others I've met at FH Conferences that some wards/stakes > are calling youth to be Family History consultants and I would like to know > what the churches position is on this practice. I feel it would be a very > good experience for Priests preparing for a mission. > Can someone elaborate on this and perhaps if you've done it tell me of your > experience. > Thank you! > > Chuck Woodings, Ward Family History Consultant > > Please send the one word message SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE to > [email protected] > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >