Cardston Alberta West Stake Temple and Family History - 2023
Through temple and family history work, “You will find, not only protection from the temptations and ills of this world but, you will also find personal power--power to change, power to repent, power to learn, power to be sanctified and power to turn the hearts of your family together and heal that which needs healing”. Elder Renlund
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/media/video/2020-06-0020-temple-work-promised-blessings?lang=eng
It is our hope that all the members of the Cardston Alberta West Stake will benefit from the numerous blessings promised to those who engage in the work of salvation through Temple and Family History Work. We strongly encourage individuals and families to set meaningful, realistic goals that will help you draw closer to the savior as you gain proficiency in the many areas of temple and family history work.
We realize every individual is at a different place on their Family History journey and encourage you to search inward to determine the best way to move forward this year. At minimum we would encourage every able member of the stake to; worthily hold a temple recommend, have a ChurchofJesusChrist.org/family search account, know how to log in to those accounts and take your own family names to the temple through ordinances ready.
As many of you know this process is surprisingly simple. To those of you that are apprehensive to take the steps needed to start down this road know that there are many who are willing to help, including family, ministers and called ward and stake temple and family history consultants. If you are already comfortable with ordinances ready, and this process, consider adding memories, indexing, adding names to your tree or help others in any area enabling you to connect with ancestors through the many family search tools available for your use.
Families and ministers, watch for opportunities to help each other where you can. Parents, you will need to lead family discussion and may need to help youth set goals and stay organized. Youth, you may need to help parents with the technology. Ward councils and Temple family history consultants, will council together on how they can best support wards, families and individuals as they work to be successful in their goals. If we work together we can all succeed!
Our stake temple and family history consultants are there to teach and support where needed. Here are a few resources already in place to help wards and families take advantage of the blessings promised by our inspired leaders.
Family Search Center
- Open Tuesday 9-12 am, Thursday 6-9 pm, or by booked appointment.
- Temple family history instruction(individuals and groups)
- Current software and technology
- Digital scanners (photos, books etc.)
- Links to activities (100 year anniversary ideas)
- For current, up to date, detailed resources and information on the Cardston Family Search website
https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Cardston_Alberta_FamilySearch_Centre#January
Youth Temple Fridays
- Fridays when school is on from 12:00-2:00
- Instruct youth lessons
- Help to find names to take to the temple
- Pizza!
Indexing
- Indexing is Easy (Again) tutorial - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDZp5pUtVQo&ab_channel=MathwithFletcher
