Report on
Indexing in the Tooele East Stake:
December 29, 2006 report:
I am the Tooele East Stake
Extraction Director who was
called to that position during the month of September. I took the
Extraction classes from the Messengers and Christensens at the Family
History Library during the month of October and in the meantime with
the help of our wonderful High Councilman, Brother Livingston, and with
our Stake President Counselor, President Nathan Pollmann, we have over
100 people who have signed up for the program. Right now we have 32
members who have been trained and are using family search
indexing. We
have a combined total of arbitrations and indexing of 43,000. We are
working hard and doing great. The work is progressing and we are having
a wonderful time doing it. We are scheduled to have more training
sessions during the third week of January. It is our hope that after we
get those who have already signed up trained and on board, to involve
the youth. We see the blessings of this tremendous work and service and
want everyone who feels the desire to dedicate even a portion of their
time to be a part of the rock that is rolling forward rapidly in the
spirit world.
Many
of those indexing from our stake have shared some of their feelings
about the names and people that they have been able to index. One youth
said that he felt a closeness with those people. Another sister who has
indexed well over 2,000 names has said that she envisions what their
lives were like during the 1900's---their names and circumstances,
their
employment, their housing, those with
children who have died, and so forth. Each person's details paints
a
visual picture and then, in not too many minutes, the question of
submitting is asked, and, those people vanish, but the sharing took
place. Etched in our hearts are the feelings that drive us to the next
page of individuals. That is why the Tooele East Stake indexers are
doing such a great work. Testimony, love, care, and their desire to
serve as our Savior would have them do.
I have shared the information
about the consultant website with our priesthood leaders in our stake
and with other family history consultants.
Sister Diane Kiser
January 3, 2007 update:
Our stake is still going like wild fire and has done over 3,000 more
names to get over the 50,000 mark. Incredible.
Tonight
I will be making phone calls to those who have signed up, but have not
been doing the work as of yet. I will see what their internet
capabilities are, invite them to our training meeting on January 19,
and advise them to at least go to the familysearchindexing website
prior to the meeting, try to download the program, look at the training
guide under the help tab, and if they have concerns and questions, they
can be addressed at the training meeting. That is how I ran the last
two training meetings in December. They were very successful.
I
will be speaking to our High Councilor, Brother Livingston, tonight to
set a date to meet
with him again. One of the things that I suggested and hope to be able
to accomplish for the new year would be to have a Tooele Valley
Regional Educational Fireside where we can invite the 5 Stake
Presidencies in our area along with all other leadership and extraction
directors to show them just how simple and wonderful this program is by
doing a power point presentation or log right on to
familysearchindexing just as the Salt Lake Family History Center has
done. I think the enthusiasm would spread and the work would go forward
at tremendous speed. I will get back with you to let you know if this
would be a possibility. I know it has been something that I've
mentioned already, but wheels need to get rolling and approval has to
take place first.