RootsTech Broadcasts & Links

I hope that you were all able to watch the Thursday night and Saturday morning RootsTech Broadcasts. Both were so good. Thursday night had 3 of the apostles and Saturday was Elder and Sis. Bednar. Fantastic talks. We are so blessed to have these resources available to us.

Here is the link for the Thursday broadcast https://www.lds.org/family-history or  https://www.rootstech.org/video/2019-temple-and-family-history-leadership-instruction 

Here is the link for the Saturday broadcast https://www.lds.org/family-history or  https://www.rootstech.org/video/family-discovery-day-elder-and-sister-bednar 

The information below is taken from another email from FamilySearch blog & LDS365 as it covers the same information that I would cover. Just click the 'title' as it is a link to the information I would like you to review.

I have attached the Stake Family History Goals. In the Thurs night leadership broadcast, it talked about having a ward plan. Please use the guidelines of the stake area plan. It is in sync with the area plan. If there are any questions, please let me know. I have also attached our family history numbers for last year. Please review those.

Organizing Temple and Family History Service at the Ward Level—A Summary of Elder Renlund’s 2019 Leadership Instruction

On February 28, 2019, Elder Dale G. Renlund of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles spoke at the Temple and Family History Leadership Instruction meeting. He suggested three things ward leaders can do to help members in temple and family history callings be more comfortable and effective.

Clarify the ward’s leadership pattern for temple and family history work.

Create a ward temple and family history plan.

Hold ward temple and family history coordination meetings.

Highlights from the Coordination Council in Action: Applying the 2019 Temple and Family History Leadership Instruction

At the Temple and Family History Leadership Instruction meeting on February 28, 2019, Elder David A. Bednar of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles invited a group of local ward leaders on stage to participate with him in a live, unscripted coordination meeting. They counseled about ways to apply the instruction they had just received from Elder Renlund and Elder Stevenson, providing an example of how a temple and family history coordination meeting might work at a ward level.

Elder Bednar asked the group if it was possible to have a simple ward temple and family history plan, and how they might keep it so going forward. “We do not do simple plans well,” Elder Bednar said. “We do complicated plans that nobody pays attention to.”

“How do we get a simple plan,” he asked, “that people can really understand and work with?”

I will share in other emails that will go over aspects of the RootsTech Conference. There are some great handouts, videos of classes that are FREE and a few of the announcements that FamilySearch and other companies, like Ancestry.com and MyHeritage.com made.

Enjoy the week. Try to keep dry. If you have any questions, or need clarification, please let me know.