Enough of people having fits over youth participation! They should be counseling with their stake leaders and their local youth leaders. Barbi in Manahawkin NJ ----- Original Message ----- From: Miles Meyer To: lds-ward-consultant@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 4:40 PM Subject: Re: [LDS-WC] new Family Search guides I produced a new set of manuals last month. You can find them at http://milesmeyer.googlepages.com/lessonmanuals. There are three new manuals there to look at. Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner. Miles Meyer On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 1:33 PM, elvin mullen <mullenmission@yahoo.com> wrote: > I am looking for Sunday School Lessons for New FamilySearch - I checked Miles Meyer and he still has Temple Ready info at the end of his lessons. Perhaps I am missing a new site he has. Thanks > > Loretta > Elk Grove Stake, CA Please send the one word message SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE to LDS-WARD-CONSULTANT-L-REQUEST@ROOTSWEB.COM ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LDS-WARD-CONSULTANT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Barbi wrote: Enough of people having fits over youth participation! They should be counseling with their stake leaders and their local youth leaders. Aren't we all youth leaders when it comes to this work? We are called to assist in helping members research their families and perform ordinance work. We teach about ordinances, the plan of salvation, temple covenants, worthiness, getting the most out of temple worship, research, indexing, etc. We teach all of the members of the ward in all age groups. When it comes to temple work, we are Relief Society, Priesthood, Primary, and YM/YW leaders! Maybe it's just me, but my callings seem to alternate between FH consultant, YW leader, and Mom of kids doing temple work. I'm sorry if this was thought to be off-topic. Since I consider working with the youth temple trips to be part of my calling, I guess I thought others did, too. I have enjoyed the exchange of ideas and appreciated the input. Jill Crandell

I appreciated everything that Jill wrote. Here are some of my thoughts on the topic -- as a convert and a member of the Church in an area of the USA which has less Latter-day Saints. Youth need to have temple experiences in order to gain testimonies of temple and family history work. How do youth receive a testimony if they can't attend the temple due to lack of names, etc.? How do we increase participation in temple ordinances for the young adults and new converts? How do we expect our missionaries and members to teach investigators around the world about family history and temple work unless there are experiences and testimonies to reinforce their lessons? Family History Consultants are called to work with any interested ward member -- no matter their age. As a family history consultant, I use the youth temple trips as a date to prepare family files for ward members and myself. I know if the temple trip is approaching and so I start talking to members who might have family files to submit. The youth then use these family files as part of their temple trip. Later their families can use these family files to complete the other ordinances. In the Detroit Temple district, we have many youth temple trips and very few family file baptism trips. If a member signs up to do family file baptisms, they are responsible for providing ALL the priesthood brethren (7 in total) as well. This is one reason that ward members avoid family file baptisms outside the youth temple trips -- it is difficult to have enough priesthood there. These are not temple workers but endowed priesthood brethren. (We are not like the Salt Lake Temple where the baptisms can be done without appointments and without bringing priesthood brethren.) Not every temple district has enough temple workers to fulfill all the staff requirements. There is always a unique challenge for every temple district. We just need to look for ways to serve and build up testimonies -- plus attend the temple as often as possible. According to many articles in the "New Era" magazine, youth are making great strides in FamilySearch Indexing, Extraction projects, and much more. They have been instrumental in helping ward members who do not know computers very well in entering and processing their family information in PAF, TempleReady, and now New FamilySearch. I love the youth and know that they will be instrumental in providing many ordinances in the years ahead for their own ancestors and other people as well. One day these same youth will be serving in callings that may bless my own family. We owe it to them to help them gain testimonies and build up the Church. Mary Scott Northville Ward Westland Michigan Stake Detroit Michigan Temple