Meridian Idaho Amity Youth Trek

The youth of the Meridian Idaho Amity are participating in a Trek in June 2012.  They will each be trekking on behalf of a pioneer who was in a hand cart company with the Saints going to Utah.  In preparation of the trek they will be using the Family History Center wednesday nights to learn how to research the history of the person as well as doing their own family history research.

The following schedule has been created and will be updated when necessary.

Young Men’s FH Library dates

Dates are:
Jan 18 - Riva Ridge Ward
Jan 25 - Blue Meadows Ward
Feb 8 - 6th Ward
Feb 22 - Open for 14th or 11th
Feb 29 - Open for 14th or 11th
Apr 18 - Amity Ward
Apr 25 - Charter Pointe Ward
May 2 - Desert Ward

 Young Women

Feb 1 ---- Blue Meadows & Amity Ward Mia Maids
Feb. 29 --- Amity Ward Laurels
Mar 14 --- 14th Ward
Mar 21 --- 6th Ward
Mar 28 --- Spring Break
Apr 4 --- Desert Ward & Amity Ward Beehives
Apr 11 --- 11th Ward
May 16 --- Charter Pointe
May 23 --- Riva Ridge

New Youth and Family History Website

During the Saturday afternoon session of General Conference Elder David A. Bednar of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles told of a new website of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: LDS.org/FamilyHistoryYouth

This new site is dedicated to Youth and Family History. In his talk, Elder Bednar addressed the youth of the Church and said:

"I invite the young people of the Church to learn about and experience the Spirit of Elijah. I encourage you to study, to search out your ancestors, and to prepare yourselves to perform proxy baptisms in the house of the Lord for your kindred dead (see D&C 124:28-36). And I urge you to help other people identify their family histories."¹

The Youth and Family History website (currently available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese) has a three minute introductory video called, "The Time is Now," in which Elder Bednar and several youth of the Church speak about the work of family history.

This new website will help youth:

• Discover how to do family history
• How to serve others, and
• Watch the experiences of other youth who've been doing temple and family history work

On the Discover page there are five steps with videos to help the youth get started with their family history. The five steps are:

1. Discover My Family Tree
2. Discover a Family Record
3. Return and Verify
4. Prepare a Name for the Temple
5. Go to the Temple ... Again and Again

The Serve page currently has videos to:

• Help the Families You Home Teach
• Help Others Come Back to Church
• Help New Members Take a Name to the Temple
• Help Others Add Photos and Documents to Their Family Tree
• Help Others Find Records by Indexing

The Experiences page has several videos of youth who share their experiences with temple and family history work.

What a wonderful resource this new website is to help our youth learn how to do family history work and then help others to learn how to do it too. If you are new to temple and family history work this website can help you too.