Steve wrote: If this is getting to be a new youth deal then the youth or their parents or their leaders need to get involved in getting the names to do the project. Actually, this isn't a new deal for our ward either. I totally agree with what you are saying (as you saw in my earlier post), but it isn't always that easy. Our young men frequently schedule temple trips to temples other than Provo. It keeps the kids motivated to stay worthy, and it gives them several temple experiences. The ability to do this is probably unique to Utah, but other situations we have are also unique. For example, our annual temple baptism assignment asks for five boys and five girls--10 kids. In six years of Mutual, that means we can get up to 60 kids to the temple once in their teenage years. Several years ago, we had the situation of more than 80 youth in our ward, so we had more than 20 kids who would never have that experience. Since the Provo temple baptism rotation includes all of the BYU wards in addition to the local wards, you can see what the issue is. I couldn't imagine kids living literally one block from the temple and never being able to participate in temple work. We have to get creative to meet these needs. At the same time, we have extensive pioneer ancestry in these kids' families, and it is extremely difficult to find family names for them to submit. My next statement is something I don't say much because sometimes it doesn't come across appropriately, so please understand that I'm trying to help others comprehend how different wards can be. Our ward literally has no non-members in our ward boundaries, and we have one less active couple. I don't know if there's any other ward in the Church this way. We also have something like 80 high priests, so we are extremely blessed with the need of BYU for priesthood leadership to be called out of our home ward to serve in bishoprics and stake presidencies on campus. Some kids around the world can't get to the temple because of distance or money. Our kids can't get to the temple because of the volume of people who have that desire in our temple district and a lack of temple file names for baptisms. With David and others in our circumstances, I would suggest that if any of you have names to share, please feel free to offer them on this list. We have a virtual "army of the Lord" capable, willing, and desirous of participating in this work. Jill Crandell

Jill & others, I was going to ask if there was a way we could send our extra family file cards to those groups needing names. We have lots of names here in Florida but we would like them back to complete the rest of the work. Our temple is a couple hours away and the youth usually do temple file names along with a handful of family files each time they attend. We just had a youth trip this spring and they did 30 family file names and another 150 temple names during the trip. Miles Meyer On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Jill N. Crandell <jncrandell@broadweave.net> wrote: > Steve wrote: > If this is getting to be a new youth deal then the youth or their parents or > their leaders need to get involved in getting the names to do the project. > > Actually, this isn't a new deal for our ward either. I totally agree with > what you are saying (as you saw in my earlier post), but it isn't always > that easy. Our young men frequently schedule temple trips to temples other > than Provo. It keeps the kids motivated to stay worthy, and it gives them > several temple experiences. The ability to do this is probably unique to > Utah, but other situations we have are also unique. For example, our annual > temple baptism assignment asks for five boys and five girls--10 kids. In six > years of Mutual, that means we can get up to 60 kids to the temple once in > their teenage years. Several years ago, we had the situation of more than 80 > youth in our ward, so we had more than 20 kids who would never have that > experience. Since the Provo temple baptism rotation includes all of the BYU > wards in addition to the local wards, you can see what the issue is. I > couldn't imagine kids living literally one block from the temple and never > being able to participate in temple work. > > We have to get creative to meet these needs. At the same time, we have > extensive pioneer ancestry in these kids' families, and it is extremely > difficult to find family names for them to submit. My next statement is > something I don't say much because sometimes it doesn't come across > appropriately, so please understand that I'm trying to help others > comprehend how different wards can be. Our ward literally has no non-members > in our ward boundaries, and we have one less active couple. I don't know if > there's any other ward in the Church this way. We also have something like > 80 high priests, so we are extremely blessed with the need of BYU for > priesthood leadership to be called out of our home ward to serve in > bishoprics and stake presidencies on campus. Some kids around the world > can't get to the temple because of distance or money. Our kids can't get to > the temple because of the volume of people who have that desire in our > temple district and a lack of temple file names for baptisms. > > With David and others in our circumstances, I would suggest that if any of > you have names to share, please feel free to offer them on this list. We > have a virtual "army of the Lord" capable, willing, and desirous of > participating in this work. > > Jill Crandell

Miles wrote: Jill & others, I was going to ask if there was a way we could send our extra family file cards to those groups needing names. Yes, just mail the cards. I recommend photocopying them before mailing to be sure they can be reprinted if anything happens in the mail, but I've been doing this for people for years. They let me know which ordinances they would like help with, and I distribute them to members for help. The cards are then returned to me, and I mail them back. Our ward has been helping with all ordinances, male and female. Feel free to contact me privately for an address if you would like help. As for any names that are ready for baptisms right now, I would suggest sending them to David. He has an immediate need. Beyond that, I would be happy to help anyone at anytime. Jill Crandell