Index

Aaronic Priesthood, definition and offices of
1. definition and purposes of
  8
  
  50–51
2. bishop
  51–53
  
  159
3. deacon
  50
4. priest
  50–51
5. teacher
  50
6. quorums of
  51
Aaronic Priesthood, general
1. adapting to local needs
  60
  
  134–35
2. ages of ordination to offices
  50
  
  133
  
  175
3. callings, chart of
  161–62
  
  165
4. convert brethren, when they receive
  24–25
5. disabilities, young men with
  53
  
  61
  
  187
6. Duty to God program
  52
  
  55
  
  57–58
7. fast offerings, gathering
  54
8. full-time missions, preparing quorum members for
  55
9. home teaching, responsibilities for
  42–44
10. leaders support parents
  51
  
  55
11. Melchizedek Priesthood, when young men receive
  24–25
  
  56
12. preparing boys to receive
  55
13. Priesthood Preview
  55
  
  92–93
14. sacrament responsibilities
  139
  
  173–74
Aaronic Priesthood activities
1. bishopric youth discussions
  58
  
  84
  
  106
2. funding for
  59
3. Mutual
  58
  
  83–84
4. nonmembers’ participation in
  61
5. Scouting, overview of
  59
6. standards events
  59
7. youth under 14, participation in
  60–61
  
  108–9
Aaronic Priesthood leaders
1. bishopric
  51–53
  
  159
  
  175
2. high councilor
  60
  
  120–21
3. quorum advisers
  53–54
4. quorum advisers, assistant
  54
5. quorum presidencies and assistants to bishop
  53
  
  55
6. quorum presidencies and assistants to bishop, guidelines for calling
  52–53
7. quorum secretaries
  53
8. sports coaches
  54
9. stake Aaronic Priesthood–Young Women committee
  60
  
  145
  
  152
10. stake presidency
  60
11. stake Young Men presidency
  121
12. stake Young Men secretary
  122
13. ward Young Men presidency
  53–54
14. ward Young Men secretary
  54
Aaronic Priesthood meetings
1. adapting to local needs
  60
  
  134–35
2. bishopric youth committee meeting
  56
  
  142
  
  150
3. quorum meetings
  46–47
  
  57
  
  141
  
  149
4. quorum presidency meeting
  56
5. stake Aaronic Priesthood–Young Women committee meeting
  60
  
  145
  
  152
6. ward Young Men presidency meeting
  56–57
Abortion, Church policies on
195
Abuse
1. at Church activities
  109
2. Church’s position on
  195
Accidents
1. at Church activities, reporting
  109–10
2. insurance for, in Church activities
  107
Activation of less-active members
1. importance of
  26
2. callings for
  135
3. feelings about the gospel
  26
4. Gospel Principles class for
  27
5. home teachers for
  44
6. preparing to lead and teach
  13
7. temple preparation seminars for
  28–29
  
  45
Activation, leaders’ responsibilities for
1. bishopric
  26
2. full-time missionaries
  27
3. high councilors
  27
4. home teachers
  27
5. Relief Society committee
  66
6. stake auxiliary presidencies
  27
7. stake presidency
  27
8. visiting teachers
  27
9. ward council
  18
  
  27
10. ward missionaries
  23–24
  
  27
11. in ward mission plan
  23–24
12. young single adult service committee
  126
Activities, Church
1. purposes of
  102
2. abuse at
  109
3. accidents at
  109–10
4. adapting to local needs
  60
  
  86
  
  134–35
5. adult supervision at
  106
6. cultural arts
  103
  
  106
7. curfew laws
  106
8. dances and music
  106
9. Deity portrayed in
  94
  
  109
10. devotionals as part of
  107
11. dress standards for
  102–3
12. equipment and supplies for
  104
13. families, should strengthen
  4–5
  
  51
  
  102
14. family circumstances and planning of
  133–34
15. funding, guidelines for
  103–4
16. fund-raising, guidelines for
  59
  
  85
  
  104
  
  107
17. insurance for
  107
18. Monday nights, not held on
  5
  
  68
  
  103
  
  107–8
19. music for dances
  106
20. New Year’s Eve activities
  107–8
21. nonmembers’ participation in
  61
  
  65
  
  86
22. overnight
  108
  
  111
  
  193
23. parental permission for
  108
  
  111
24. participation, encouraging
  102
25. planning, who is responsible
  102
26. prayers at
  109
27. renting non-Church facilities
  109
28. safety precautions at
  109–10
  
  135
29. scheduling
  103
  
  107–8
30. service
  103
31. for single adults
  104–5
  
  124
32. sports
  54
  
  103
  
  110
33. standards for
  102–3
34. on Sunday
  109
35. taxable activities
  111
  
  191–92
36. temple visits
  111
37. travel in
  111
38. unapproved activities
  111
39. Word of Wisdom at
  103
40. for young single adults
  104–5
  
  126–28
  
  134–35
41. youth under 14, participation of
  60–61
  
  86
  
  108–9
Activities, stake, multistake, and area
1. guidelines for
  104–5
2. renting non-Church facilities for
  109
3. for single adults
  124
4. sports activities
  110
5. for young single adults
  104–5
  
  127
  
  134–35
6. for youth
  135
Activities committee, stake
105

145
Activities directors, stake
105
Activities specialists, stake
105

122
Activity days
90

92
Activity Insurance Program, Church
107

110
Activity specialists, Young Women
1. stake
  86
2. ward
  80
Adaptation of Church programs
1. guidelines for
  132–35
2. home teaching
  44
  
  134
3. music, ward
  115
4. priesthood meetings, Sunday
  46–47
  
  60
  
  134
5. Primary
  93
  
  135
6. Relief Society
  72–73
7. stake programs
  122
8. Sunday School
  99
9. visiting teaching
  70
  
  134
10. Young Men
  60
  
  134–35
11. Young Women
  86
  
  134–35
Additional Relief Society meetings, guidelines for
68–69

149
Administering to the sick, guidelines for
174–75
Adoption
1. biological parents, contact with
  180
2. encouraged for single expectant parents
  196–97
3. legal requirements for
  180
Advisers
1. Aaronic Priesthood quorum
  53–54
2. young single adult
  66
  
  126
3. Young Women
  80
Agendas, leaders’ use in meetings
14

138
Agent bishop’s responsibilities
1. baptismal font, use of
  171
2. classes for members with disabilities
  187
3. library in multiward building
  98
4. meetinghouse facilities, scheduling
  103
5. tuning of pianos and organs
  118
AIDS or HIV, Church policies on
193–94
Anointing, administering to the sick
174–75
Aprons, temple, making
191
Area activities
Area Seventies
Artificial insemination, Church policies on
195
Artwork in meetinghouses
192
Ashes, dedication of place where, are kept
176
Assistant Aaronic Priesthood quorum advisers
54
Assistants to president of priests quorum
51–53
Assistant ward mission leader
22
Audiovisual materials or visual aids
1. copyright guidelines for
  183
2. use in Church settings
  146
  
  180
Auditions, not held for choirs
116
Autographs of General Authorities
180
Autopsies
193
Auxiliaries, purposes of
64

76

88

96
Auxiliary leadership meetings, stake
145–46

152
Auxiliary presidencies, stake
26–27

121

145–46

Baptism
1. general instructions for priesthood ordinances
  168–69
2. guidelines for baptism and confirmation
  170–73
3. age for
  133
  
  170
4. clothing for
  171
5. for converts
  23
  
  170–73
6. father participating when not temple worthy
  169
7. fonts, use of
  171
8. instructions for performing
  172
9. interviews for
  23
  
  88
  
  170
  
  172
10. investigators, invite to services
  23
11. members of record, children who are
  88
  
  140
  
  170
12. sacrament meeting, introducing new members and children in
  140
13. services, instructions for
  23
  
  170–72
14. services, scheduling of
  23
  
  107
  
  170–71
15. witnesses for
  171
Beehives
1. definition of
  77
2. Personal Progress, introducing Beehives to
  82–83
Bible, which edition to use
132

180
Birth control
195
Bishop, calling and ordaining of
158–59

162
Bishopric, responsibilities of
1. Aaronic Priesthood quorums
  51–53
  
  159
  
  175
2. activation
  26
3. agent bishop
  98
  
  103
  
  118
  
  171
  
  187
4. baptism and confirmation
  23
  
  88
  
  170
  
  172
5. common judge
  159
6. convert retention
  24–25
7. funerals
  146–48
8. meetinghouse library
  96
9. Melchizedek Priesthood quorums
  41
10. member missionary work
  22–23
11. music
  114–16
12. patriarchal blessings
  177
13. Personal Progress
  78
  
  83
14. Primary
  88
  
  90
15. prospective elders
  25
16. Relief Society
  65
17. single adults
  124
18. Sunday School
  96–97
19. teaching the gospel
  30
20. temple and family history work
  28
21. welfare
  35
22. young single adults
  125
23. Young Women
  78–79
  
  83
Bishopric meeting, guidelines for
16

141–42

149
Bishopric youth committee
1. guidelines for
  56
  
  80–81
  
  142
  
  150
2. plans bishopric youth discussions
  58
3. plans combined activities
  58
  
  83–84
4. plans ward youth conference
  105–6
Bishopric youth discussions
58

84

106
Bishoprics, stake presidency’s meeting with
145

151
Bishops’ storehouse
35
Bishops’ welfare council meeting, stake
152
Blessings, priesthood
Block schedule for Sunday meetings
153–54
Book of Mormon, not rewritten in modern English
181
Branch
1. callings
  164
  
  165–66
2. conference, guidelines for
  133
  
  141
  
  149
Burial, guidelines for
148

Callings, general guidelines
1. general guidelines for whom to call
  156–57
2. approvals, who gives
  156
  
  159–66
3. confidentiality with proposed callings
  156
4. for converts
  13
  
  24
  
  156
5. dissenting votes
  157
6. extending
  157
  
  159–66
7. family circumstances, leaders consider
  18
  
  133–34
  
  156
8. for less-active members
  135
9. for nonmembers
  156
10. poor and needy, provide opportunities to care for
  35
11. recommendations, who may give
  156
  
  159–66
12. releasing members from
  158
13. setting apart officers and teachers
  158
14. sustaining
  157
  
  159–66
Callings, guidelines for specific types of
1. Aaronic Priesthood
  161–62
  
  165
2. bishops
  158–59
  
  162
3. branch
  164
  
  165–66
4. elders quorum
  157
  
  161
  
  165
5. high priests group
  157
  
  161
6. Melchizedek Priesthood
  161
7. military service member group
  166
8. mission
  164–66
9. stake
  156
  
  159–61
10. ward
  157
  
  161–64
Camp
1. day camp
  92
  
  94
  
  104
2. fund-raising activities for
  104
3. Scout
  59
  
  60–61
  
  104
4. Young Women
  84–85
  
  104
Canceling sacrament meeting
132–33

192
Candles in meetinghouses
192
Centers for young adults
127–28
Chapel, music appropriate in
118
Chastity
4

193

195–96
Children, parents’ responsibility for
2

4–5

9–10
Children’s
1. class for additional Relief Society meetings
  69
2. sacrament meeting presentation
  92
  
  140
Choirs
1. director and accompanist, ward
  114–16
2. obtaining music for
  118
3. planning stake choir music
  117
4. planning ward choir music
  115–16
5. stake and multistake choirs
  117
6. training for choir directors
  117
7. ward choir
  116
Church
1. family is basic unit of
  9
  
  14
2. purposes of
  9
Church activities
Church Activity Insurance Program
107
Church curriculum
Church magazines
1. copyright guidelines for
  182
2. executive secretaries help with
  181
3. members should read
  181
4. subscription efforts for
  181
Church meetinghouses
Church name and logotype
181
Church welfare
Class presidencies
Class presidents, Sunday School
97
Clothing for baptism
171
Combined activities, Mutual
58

83–84
Common judge, bishop
159
Compassionate service
1. coordinator
  66
2. Relief Society meeting topic
  69
3. Relief Society’s responsibility for
  71
Computers
1. confidentiality of information
  182
2. copyright laws for software
  183
3. use of, in Church units
  181
Conferring priesthood and ordaining to office
1. general instructions for priesthood ordinances
  168–69
2. general instructions for conferring priesthood and ordaining to office
  175–76
3. Aaronic Priesthood, bishop oversees
  175
4. Melchizedek Priesthood, stake president oversees
  175
5. father participating when not temple worthy
  169
6. instructions for performing
  175–76
7. ordination record and certificate
  176
Confidentiality
1. computer information
  182
2. e-mail and Internet
  134
3. home teaching
  44
4. proposed callings and releases
  156
5. visiting teaching
  70
6. ward council
  16
  
  18
  
  38
7. welfare needs
  38
Confirmation and gift of the Holy Ghost
1. general instructions for priesthood ordinances
  168–69
2. general instructions for confirmation
  170–73
3. for converts
  23
  
  170–73
4. father participating when not temple worthy
  169
5. instructions for
  172
6. interviews for
  23
  
  88
  
  170
  
  172
7. sacrament meeting, introducing new members and children in
  140
Consecrating oil
174
Converts
1. baptism and confirmation of
  23
  
  170–73
2. callings and service opportunities for new
  13
  
  24
  
  156
3. convert baptisms, definition of
  170
4. Gospel Principles class, new members attend
  26
5. home teachers assigned to
  25
  
  43–44
6. new members’ needs
  24
7. preparing to lead and teach
  13
8. priesthood, brethren should receive
  24–25
9. sacrament meeting, introducing in
  140
10. visiting teachers assigned to
  25
  
  69–70
11. ward members strengthen
  23–25
Convert retention, leaders’ responsibilities
1. bishopric
  24–25
2. full-time missionaries
  25
3. high councilors
  26
4. home teachers
  25
  
  43–44
5. priesthood and auxiliary leaders
  25
6. stake auxiliary presidencies
  26
7. stake presidency
  26
8. visiting teachers
  25
  
  69–70
9. ward council
  18
  
  25
10. ward missionaries
  25
Coordinating council meetings
1. emergency plans
  37
2. multistake activities
  104–5
3. travel in Church activities
  111
Copyrighted materials, guidelines for using
1. audiovisual materials
  183
2. Church magazines, pictures in
  182
3. computer software
  183
4. music
  182–83
5. theatrical productions
  183
Councils, purposes of
10

12

16
Covenants, definition of
9
Cremation
148

176

193
Cultural arts activities
103

106
Curfew laws for Church activities
106
Curriculum, Church
1. Church materials, use of
  30–31
  
  133
  
  183
2. for families’ use at home
  183
3. for members with disabilities
  188
4. new teachers, giving materials to
  30
5. for priesthood meetings
  46–47
6. for Relief Society
  67–68
7. for Sunday School
  97–98

Dances
1. guidelines for
  106
2. in commercial buildings
  108
3. youth plan and carry out
  60
  
  86
  
  145
4. youth under 14, participation in
  60–61
  
  86
  
  108–9
Dating businesses
183
Day camp
92

94

104
Deacons quorum
1. overview of deacons’ responsibilities
  50
2. fast offerings, gathering
  54
3. sacrament, passing
  173–74
4. Sunday quorum meetings
  46–47
  
  57
  
  141
  
  149
Deacons quorum presidency
1. calling and sustaining of
  52–53
2. duties of
  53
3. full-time missions, preparing young men for
  55
4. leadership meetings of
  56
5. Scouting responsibilities of
  59
Deaf members, interpretation for
1. of Church meetings
  188
2. of ordinances and blessings
  188
Death
1. autopsies
  193
2. burial guidelines
  148
3. on Church property
  109–10
4. cremation
  148
  
  176
  
  193
5. dedicating graves
  169
  
  176
6. euthanasia
  193
7. temple clothing for deceased members
  47
  
  73
  
  148
Decorations in meetinghouses
192
Dedicating graves
169

176
Dedicating homes
176–77
Deity, portrayals in Church activities
94

109
Delegation, principles of
13
Devotionals in Church activities
107
Directories, stake and ward
183

189
Disabilities, members with
1. general guidelines for
  186–88
2. interpreters for
  188
3. priesthood ordinances and blessings for
  169
  
  186–88
4. in priesthood quorums
  47
  
  53
  
  61
5. Primary children
  94
  
  187
6. in Relief Society
  73
7. resources for
  188
8. special classes, programs, or units for
  187
9. Sunday School classes for
  98
  
  187
10. ward council assists
  36
11. young men
  53
  
  61
  
  187
12. young women
  80
  
  82
  
  86
  
  187
Disciplinary councils
1. interpreters for deaf during
  188
2. leaders do not deviate from instructions
  133
Dissenting votes during sustaining
157
Divorce and single adult activities
124

126
Dress standards
1. for Church activities
  102–3
2. for priesthood holders passing the sacrament
  173
3. for sisters
  73
Duty to God program
52

55

57–58

Education, self-reliance in
34
Elder
1. definition and responsibilities of
  40
2. ordaining
  175–76
3. sustaining
  143
4. when young men are ordained
  24–25
  
  56
Elders quorum
1. stake presidency’s responsibilities for
  40–41
  
  175
2. bishopric’s responsibilities for
  41
  
  175
3. callings, chart of
  157
  
  161
  
  165
4. converts, responsibilities for
  25
5. death, serving at time of
  47
  
  147
6. disabilities, members with
  47
7. high priests, when members meet with
  134
8. home teaching
  42–44
9. instructors
  30–31
  
  42
10. presidency, calling and sustaining of
  40–41
11. presidency, leadership meetings of
  45–46
12. presidency, overview of duties
  41–42
13. priesthood meetings
  46–47
  
  141
  
  149
14. prospective elders
  25
  
  42
  
  45
15. secretary
  42
16. welfare work
  36–37
  
  44
E-mail, use to reduce travel
134
Emergencies
1. accidents and injuries
  109–10
2. canceling meetings during
  132–33
  
  192
3. meetinghouse use during
  192
4. stake plan for
  37
  
  145
5. ward plan for
  36
Emigration of members
183–84
Employment
1. and Church callings
  156
2. consistent with gospel
  186
3. self-reliance in
  34
4. specialist
  37
Endowment
1. purpose of
  27
2. temple preparation seminars for
  28–29
  
  45
Equipment for activities, funds for
104
Eternal life
Euthanasia
193
Exaltation
1. Church prepares families for
  4–5
  
  9
2. ordinances necessary for
  9
  
  27
  
  168
3. purpose of God’s plan
  2
4. sealing of husband and wife necessary for
  3
Excommunication, no Church callings after
156
Executive secretary
1. Church magazines
  181
2. ward council responsibilities
  16–19
Exercise programs, guidelines for
103

111
Extending Church callings
157

159–66

Faith in God program
89

92
Families
1. Aaronic Priesthood and Young Women support
  51
  
  55
  
  78
2. basic unit of Church
  9
  
  14
3. Church activities strengthen
  4–5
  
  51
  
  102
4. Church callings, leaders consider circumstances of
  18
  
  133–34
  
  156
5. Church curriculum materials in
  183
6. dedicating homes
  176–77
7. in God’s plan
  2–5
8. home teachers’ responsibilities for
  43
9. leaders help members without strong
  5
10. music in
  117–18
11. parents’ responsibilities for
  2
  
  4–5
  
  9–10
12. premortal family of God
  2
13. single members, eternal promises to
  4
14. welfare, members turn to
  34
Family history centers
29–30
Family history consultant
1. family history course, may teach
  29
2. responsibilities of
  28
Family history course
29
Family history work
Family home evening
1. importance of
  5
2. Monday nights reserved for
  5
  
  103
  
  107–8
3. for single adults
  124
4. for young single adults
  127–28
Family-needs visits
36

70–71
Family reunions, sacrament services not held at
140
FamilySearch indexing
29
Famous people, temple ordinances for
28
Fast, law of
184
Fast and testimony meetings
1. guidelines for
  140–41
  
  149
2. children bearing testimonies in
  94
  
  141
3. naming and blessing children in
  139
  
  141
Fast offerings
1. gathering
  54
2. guidelines for contributing
  35
Fathers
1. participation in ordinances when not temple worthy
  169
2. responsibilities for children
  2
  
  4–5
  
  9–10
Father’s blessings and other blessings of comfort and counsel
176
Fellowshipping
Fifth Sunday priesthood and Relief Society meetings
46–47

68
Firearms in meetinghouses
192
Fires in meetinghouses
192
First Sunday priesthood and Relief Society meetings
46

67
Fitness activities
103

111
Flags in meetinghouses
192
Fonts, baptismal
1. no artwork near
  192
2. use for baptisms
  171
Fourth Sunday priesthood and Relief Society meetings
46

68
Friends of Scouting
107
Full-time missionaries
1. activation, responsibilities for
  27
2. baptisms, responsibilities for
  23
  
  88
  
  170
  
  172
3. at centers for young adults
  127
4. companions with members
  23
5. convert retention, assist with
  25
6. home teaching, assist with
  25
  
  44
7. missionary coordination meeting
  18
  
  22–23
  
  150
8. missionary preparation class
  55
9. sacrament meeting talks of
  139–40
10. visiting teaching, assist with
  25
  
  70
11. ward council, meet with
  17
  
  22
12. young men, preparing to serve as
  55
Fund-raising activities
1. guidelines for
  107
2. for annual camps
  59
  
  85
  
  104
Funerals
1. general guidelines for
  146–48
2. bishop, responsibilities of
  146–48
3. cremation and
  193
4. financial policies for
  148
5. home teachers, responsibilities of
  47
  
  147
6. legal requirements for
  147
7. music at
  148
8. for nonmembers
  148
9. practices of other religions
  147
10. quorum or group leaders, responsibilities of
  47
  
  147
11. Relief Society, responsibilities of
  71
  
  73
  
  147
12. services, guidelines for
  147–48
13. for suicides
  197
14. viewings
  147

Gambling and lotteries
184
Garments
General Authorities
1. autographs and photographs of
  180
2. at stake conference
  142–43
  
  151
3. talks, recording of
  189
4. unofficial statements made by
  190
General priesthood meeting
General Relief Society meeting, stake meeting held with
72
Gift of the Holy Ghost
Gospel Principles class
26–27
Gospel teaching and learning
Graves, dedicating
169

176
Guest speakers at Church meetings
184

Handbooks, use of
v–vi

14
Handicaps
Health, members become self-reliant in
34
Health and medical policies
1. autopsies
  193
2. cremation
  193
3. ethically questionable practices
  194
4. euthanasia
  193
5. HIV infection and AIDS
  193–94
6. hypnosis
  194
7. organ donations and transplants
  194
8. prolonging life
  194
9. self-awareness groups
  194
10. stillborn children
  194
11. Word of Wisdom
  194–95
Hearing-impaired members
188
High council meeting
High councilors, responsibilities
1. overview of responsibilities
  120–21
2. Aaronic Priesthood
  60
  
  120–21
3. activation
  27
4. baptismal services
  170–71
5. convert retention
  26
6. e-mail and Internet if travel is costly
  134
7. Melchizedek Priesthood
  41
8. missionary work
  24
  
  144
9. sacrament meetings, do not preside
  138
  
  174
10. sacrament meeting talks
  121
  
  140
11. single adults
  124
12. stake activities committee
  105
  
  145
13. stake music adviser
  116–17
14. stake Primary presidency
  93
  
  145
15. stake Sunday School presidency
  99
  
  145
16. stake Young Men presidency
  60
  
  145
17. stake Young Women presidency
  85
  
  145
18. temple and family history work
  29
19. young single adults
  125
High priest
1. definition and responsibilities of
  40
2. ordaining
  175–76
3. sustaining
  143
High priests group
1. stake presidency’s responsibilities for
  40–41
  
  175
2. bishopric’s responsibilities for
  41
  
  175
3. callings, chart of
  157
  
  161
4. converts, responsibilities for
  25
5. death, serving at time of
  47
  
  147
6. disabilities, members with
  47
7. elders, when members meet with
  134
8. home teaching
  42–44
9. instructors
  30–31
  
  42
10. leadership, calling and sustaining of
  40–41
  
  161
11. leadership, meetings of
  45–46
12. leadership, overview of duties
  41–42
13. priesthood meetings
  46–47
  
  141
  
  149
14. prospective elders
  25
  
  42
  
  45
15. secretary
  42
16. temple and family history work
  22
  
  28
  
  41
17. welfare work
  36–37
  
  44
High priests quorum, definition of
40
High priests quorum meeting, stake
47

144

151
HIV or AIDS, Church policies on
193–94
Holy Ghost, gift of
Home evening groups
Home storage, members become self-reliant in
34
Home teachers
1. guidelines for
  42–44
2. Aaronic Priesthood, preparing boys to receive
  55
3. activation, responsibilities for
  27
4. adapting home teaching to local needs
  44
  
  134
5. confidentiality
  44
6. converts, responsibilities for
  25
  
  43–44
7. death, serving at time of
  47
  
  147
8. full-time missionaries assist
  25
  
  44
9. for less-active members
  44
10. for members without Melchizedek Priesthood in home
  10
11. prospective elders, responsibilities for
  45
12. quorum and group leaders’ responsibilities for
  42–44
13. reporting
  44
14. welfare, responsibilities for
  37
15. in young single adult ward
  44
  
  128
Homes, dedicating
176–77
Homosexual behavior
1. Church policies concerning
  195–96
2. same-gender marriages
  196
Hymnbooks, purchasing
118
Hymns
1. adaptations when no one can play piano
  115
2. choirs, use in
  116
3. choosing appropriate
  115–16
4. classroom, use in
  116
5. copyright laws for
  182
6. home, use in
  117–18
7. sacrament meeting, use in
  116
Hypnosis
194

Inactive members
Income taxes
184
Indexing, FamilySearch
29
Institutes
1. centers for young adults at
  127–28
2. disabilities, for members with
  187
3. young single adults attend
  127
Instructors, quorum
30–31

42
Instruments, musical, use in Church services
114–15
Insurance for Church activities
107
Internet
1. in-person contact, should not replace
  184
2. members’ use of, in Church callings
  185
3. official Church resources on
  184–85
4. personal use of
  185
5. stake and ward Web sites
  184–85
6. use to reduce travel
  134
Interviews
1. for baptism and confirmation, by bishops and missionaries
  23
  
  88
  
  170
  
  172
2. of bishops, by stake presidents
  24
  
  26–27
  
  125
3. for callings, by authorized leaders
  157
4. for patriarchal blessings, by bishopric
  177
5. of quorum and group members, by quorum and group leaders
  42
6. of young men, by bishopric
  52
7. of young single adults, by bishopric
  125
8. of young women, by bishopric
  77–78
  
  83
Investigators
In vitro fertilization, Church policies on
196

Jobs

Keyboards
118
Keys, priesthood
Kitchens in meetinghouses
193

Laurels, definition of
77
Laws of the land, obeying
185
Leadership in the Church
1. leadership purposes
  14
2. preparing young men for
  60
3. preparing young single adults for
  13
4. preparing young women for
  85
5. principles of leadership
  12–14
6. Savior’s way of leading
  12
Learning and teaching the gospel
Less-active members
Librarian, ward
98
Literacy
71
Logotype, Church
181
Lord’s storehouse
35
Lotteries and gambling
184

Magazines
Mail, items without postage in mailboxes
189
Marriage
1. central to God’s plan
  3
2. raising children in righteousness
  4–5
3. single members, eternal promises to
  4
Medical policies
Meetinghouses, Church
1. accidents in
  109–10
2. agent bishop for
  98
  
  103
  
  118
  
  171
  
  187
3. artwork in
  192
4. candles in
  192
5. deacons’ responsibilities for
  50
6. decorations in
  192
7. emergency use of
  192
8. firearms in
  192
9. fires in
  192
10. flags in
  192
11. funerals, use for
  147–48
12. kitchens in
  193
13. overnight activities
  108
  
  193
14. parking lots, use of
  193
15. photographs and video recordings in
  193
16. political purposes, use for
  106
  
  191–92
17. purposes of
  191
18. sacrament meeting held away from
  140
19. safety in
  109–10
  
  192
20. scheduling activities in
  103
21. security of
  192
22. serving areas of
  193
23. signs on
  181
24. storage in
  193
25. tax-exempt status of
  111
  
  191–92
26. unapproved uses of
  191–92
27. voter registration, use for
  192
28. weddings, use for
  118
Meetinghouse library
1. guidelines for
  98
2. bishopric
  96
3. music in
  118
4. stake presidency
  98
5. stake Sunday School presidency
  99
6. ward librarian and assistant librarians
  98
7. ward Sunday School presidency
  96–98
Meetings, general principles
1. agendas for
  14
  
  138
2. canceling during emergencies
  132–33
  
  192
3. planning and conducting
  138
4. prayers at
  146
5. scheduling on Sunday
  138
6. visual aids and audiovisual materials at
  146
  
  180
Meetings, stake
1. overview
  142
2. stake Aaronic Priesthood–Young Women committee meeting
  145
  
  152
3. stake auxiliary leadership meetings
  145–46
  
  152
4. stake bishops’ welfare council meeting
  152
5. stake conference
  142–43
  
  151
6. stake council meeting
  145
  
  151
7. stake general priesthood meeting
  143
  
  151
8. stake high priests quorum meeting
  47
  
  144
  
  151
9. stake presidency meeting
  144
  
  151
10. stake presidency’s meeting with bishoprics
  145
  
  151
11. stake priesthood executive committee meeting
  144
  
  151
12. stake priesthood leadership meeting
  46
  
  57
  
  143–44
  
  151
13. stake single adult committee meeting
  124
  
  152
14. stake young single adult committee meeting
  125
  
  152
Meetings, ward
1. overview
  138
2. bishopric meeting
  16
  
  141–42
  
  149
3. bishopric youth committee meeting
  56
  
  80–81
  
  142
  
  150
4. fast and testimony meeting
  140–41
  
  149
5. missionary coordination meeting
  18
  
  22–23
  
  150
6. priesthood meeting
  46–47
  
  57
  
  141
  
  149
7. sacrament meeting
  132–33
  
  138–40
  
  149
8. Sunday meeting schedule
  138
  
  153–54
9. ward conference
  133
  
  141
  
  149
10. ward council meeting
  17–19
  
  150
11. ward priesthood executive committee meeting
  16
  
  150
12. ward young single adult committee meeting
  126
  
  150
Melchizedek Priesthood, general
1. definition and purposes of
  8
  
  40
2. elders
  40
3. high priests
  40
4. quorums of elders and high priests
  40
5. adapting to local needs
  46–47
  
  134
6. callings, chart of
  161
7. fathers strive to magnify
  9–10
8. prospective elders, responsibility for
  44–45
9. special needs, helping brethren with
  47
10. when brethren receive
  24–25
  
  56
Melchizedek Priesthood leaders
Melchizedek Priesthood meetings
1. elders quorum presidency meeting
  45–46
2. high priests group leadership meeting
  45–46
3. priesthood meetings
  46–47
  
  141
  
  149
4. stake high priests quorum meeting
  47
  
  144
  
  151
5. stake priesthood leadership meeting
  46
  
  57
  
  143–44
  
  151
Member missionary work
1. overview of
  22–24
2. investigators invited to baptismal services
  23
3. members work with full-time missionaries
  23
4. missionary coordination meeting
  18
  
  22–23
  
  150
5. ward mission plan
  18
  
  22–27
Member missionary work, leaders’ responsibilities for
1. bishopric
  22–23
2. full-time missionaries
  23
3. high councilor
  24
  
  144
4. mission president
  23–24
5. stake presidency
  24
6. ward council
  17–18
  
  22–24
7. ward missionaries
  23–25
  
  27
8. ward mission leader
  22–27
  
  170–71
Membership records
1. after baptism
  172–73
2. introducing members
  140
3. in young single adult wards and stakes
  128–29
Members of record, baptism of
88

140

170
Men, serving in Primary
94
Mia Maids, definition of
77
Military service member group callings
166
Mission callings
164–66
Mission leader, ward
22–27

170–71
Mission plan, ward
18

22–27
Mission president, responsibilities of
1. investigators, teaching
  23
2. keys for baptizing and confirming converts
  23
  
  172
3. non-Christian faiths, relationships with
  188–89
4. stake presidency, meets with
  24
Missionaries
Missionary coordination meeting
18

22–23

150
Missionary preparation class
55
Monday nights, no Church activities on
5

68

103

107–8
Multistake, stake, and area activities
Music
1. purposes of
  114–15
  
  117–18
2. adapting to local conditions
  115
3. appropriate music, choosing
  115–16
4. chapel, music appropriate for
  118
5. choirs, stake and multistake
  117
6. choirs, ward
  116
7. in classrooms
  116
8. congregational singing
  115
9. copyright laws for
  182–83
10. in homes
  117–18
11. hymnbooks, purchasing
  118
12. keyboards, use of
  118
13. meetinghouse library, music in
  118
14. online music resources
  118
15. organs, use of
  115
  
  117–18
  
  192
16. pianos, use of
  115
  
  117–18
  
  192
17. prelude and postlude music
  115
18. special musical selections
  116
19. training in music skills
  117
Music, events and meetings
1. dances
  106
2. funerals
  148
3. sacrament meetings
  115–16
  
  139
  
  173–74
4. stake conferences
  117
5. weddings
  118
Music adviser
1. stake
  116
2. ward
  114
Music chairman
1. stake
  116–17
2. ward
  114–15
  
  117
Music director
1. priesthood
  114
2. Primary
  89
  
  91
3. Primary, stake
  93
4. Relief Society
  66–67
5. ward
  114–15
6. Young Women
  80
Music leaders, Relief Society
66–67
Music leaders, responsibilities of
1. stake presidency
  116
2. stake music adviser
  116
3. stake music chairman
  116–17
4. stake music specialists
  117
5. bishopric
  114–16
6. ward choir director and accompanist
  114–16
7. ward music adviser
  114
8. ward music chairman
  114–15
  
  117
9. ward music director
  114–15
10. ward organist or pianist
  114
Musical instruments, use in Church services
114–15
Mutual
1. guidelines for
  58
  
  83–84
2. combined activities
  58
  
  83–84
3. disabilities, for members with
  187
4. opening exercises
  58
  
  83
5. Personal Progress activities
  82
6. quorum and class activities
  58
  
  83–84
7. Scouting activities
  59
8. theme
  58
  
  83
9. for young men
  58
10. for young women
  83–84
11. youth under 14, participation of
  60–61
  
  86
  
  108–9

Naming and blessing children
1. general instructions for priesthood ordinances
  168–69
2. general instructions for naming and blessing children
  169–70
3. blessing record and certificate for
  169–70
4. in fast and testimony meeting
  139
  
  141
5. father participating when not temple worthy
  169
6. record for baby born out of wedlock
  170
New Beginnings
84
New Year’s Eve, activities on
107–8
Nonmembers
1. Church callings for
  156
2. funerals for
  148
3. non-Christian faiths, relationships with
  188–89
4. in Personal Progress
  86
5. in Relief Society
  65
6. and sacrament
  173
7. in Scouting
  61
8. in single adult activities
  124
9. in Sunday meetings
  138
  
  143
10. in young single adult activities
  126
11. in youth activities
  61
  
  86
Nursery, Primary
89–91

Oil, consecrating
174
Opening exercises
1. Mutual
  58
  
  83
2. priesthood meetings
  46–47
  
  57
  
  141
  
  153
3. Relief Society
  67
  
  153
4. Relief Society and Young Women combine once a month
  71
5. Young Women
  82
  
  153
Ordaining to an office
Ordinance, gospel, definition of
9
Ordinances and blessings
1. general instructions for
  168–69
2. disabilities, for persons with
  169
  
  186–88
3. minimum ages for receiving ordinances may not be altered
  133
4. temple ordinances and covenants not discussed specifically in Church meetings
  133
5. who can participate in
  168–69
Organ donations and transplants
194
Organist, ward
114

156
Organs
1. for practice
  117
  
  192
2. purchasing of
  118
3. tuning and repair of
  118
4. use in Church services
  115
  
  118
Orienting new teachers
30
Out-of-wedlock pregnancies
Out-of-wedlock, baby born, blessing record for
170
Overnight activities
108

111

193

Parents
1. children, responsibility for
  2
  
  4–5
  
  9–10
2. leaders support
  51
  
  55
  
  78
3. permission for Church activities
  108
  
  111
Parking lots of meetinghouses
193
Part-member families, leaders strengthen
5
Patriarchal blessings, guidelines for
177
Perpetual Education Fund
1. specialists for
  37
2. in stake council
  145
3. in ward council
  18
Personal Progress
1. bishop’s responsibilities
  78
  
  83
2. certificates and awards
  82
3. definition and goals
  82
4. Mutual, activities at
  82
5. in New Beginnings
  84
6. nonmembers participate in
  86
7. in Young Women in Excellence
  84
8. Young Women leaders’ responsibilities
  82–83
9. Young Women leaders work on
  79
Photographs in meetinghouses
193
Pianist
1. priesthood
  114
2. Primary
  89
3. Relief Society
  66–67
4. ward
  114
5. Young Women
  80
Pianos
1. adaptations when no one can play
  115
2. for practice
  117
  
  192
3. purchasing of
  118
4. tuning and repair of
  118
5. use in Church services
  115
  
  118
Plan of salvation
2–3
Political and civic activities
1. Church facilities for
  106
  
  191–92
2. Church’s involvement in
  189
Pornography, Church policies on
196
Postlude and prelude music
115
Prayers
1. at Church activities
  109
2. in Church meetings, guidelines for
  146
3. sacrament
  174
Prelude and postlude music
115
Presidency meetings
Presiding authority at Church meetings
138

174
Presiding councils, purposes of
10

12

16
Priesthood, definition of
8–9
Priesthood blessings
Priesthood executive committee, ward
Priesthood executive committee, stake
Priesthood keys
1. definition of
  8–9
  
  40
  
  50
2. when to confer
  158
  
  175
Priesthood leadership meeting, stake
Priesthood meetings
1. adapting to local needs
  60
  
  134
2. guidelines for
  46–47
  
  57
  
  141
  
  149
Priesthood music director and pianist
114
Priesthood Preview
55

92–93
Priests quorum
1. overview of priests’ responsibilities
  50–51
2. bishop is president of
  51–52
  
  159
3. home teaching responsibilities of
  43–44
4. Melchizedek Priesthood, when priests receive
  24–25
  
  56
5. Sunday quorum meetings
  46–47
  
  57
  
  141
  
  149
Priests quorum presidency
1. calling and sustaining of
  52–53
2. duties of
  53
3. full-time missions, preparing young men for
  55
4. leadership meetings of
  56
5. Scouting responsibilities of
  59
Primary
1. Aaronic Priesthood, prepares boys to receive
  55
2. activity days
  90
  
  92
3. adapting to local needs
  93
  
  135
4. children’s sacrament meeting presentation
  92
  
  140
5. classes, guidelines for
  91–92
6. Deity, portrayals in
  94
  
  109
7. disabilities, children with
  94
  
  187
8. Faith in God program
  89
  
  92
9. finances for
  94
10. men serving in
  94
11. music in
  89
  
  91
12. nursery
  89–91
13. purposes of
  88
14. reverence in
  89
  
  94
15. Scouting in
  90
  
  92–94
16. sharing time
  89
  
  91
17. testimony bearing in
  94
  
  141
18. theme of
  88
Primary, stake leaders and meetings
1. high councilor
  93
  
  145
2. stake presidency
  93
  
  120
3. stake Primary music leader
  93
4. stake Primary presidency
  26–27
  
  93
  
  121
  
  145–46
5. stake Primary secretary
  122
6. stake Primary leadership meeting
  90
  
  145–46
  
  152
Primary, ward leaders
1. activity days leaders
  90
2. bishopric
  88
  
  90
3. nursery leaders
  89–90
4. Primary music leader
  89
  
  91
5. Primary pianist
  89
6. Primary presidency
  88–89
7. Primary secretary
  89
8. Primary teachers
  89–90
9. Scout leaders
  90
Primary, ward meetings
1. meeting with counselor in bishopric
  90
2. Priesthood Preview
  55
  
  92–93
3. Primary presidency meeting
  89–90
4. Sunday Primary meetings
  90–92
  
  149
Privacy of members, protecting
189
Prolonging life
194
Prospective elders
1. definition of
  44–45
2. bishopric’s responsibility for
  25
3. preparing for Melchizedek Priesthood
  45
4. priesthood meetings, attendance at
  138
  
  141
5. quorum and group leaders’ responsibility for
  25
  
  42
  
  45
Public affairs specialists
122

Quorum
1. Aaronic Priesthood, definition of
  51
2. Melchizedek Priesthood, definition of
  40
Quorum advisers, Aaronic Priesthood
53–54
Quorum advisers, assistant, Aaronic Priesthood
54
Quorum and group meetings
46–47

57

141

149
Quorum presidencies
Quotas, none for temple work
27–28

Recordings of music, use in Church services
115
Records and reports, leaders ensure accuracy of
133
Releasing from Church callings, guidelines for
158
Relief Society
1. adapting to local needs
  72–73
2. compassionate service
  71
3. converts, assisting female
  25
4. disabilities, members with
  73
5. dress standards for sisters
  73
6. funerals, help with
  71
  
  73
  
  147
7. history
  64
8. literacy efforts
  71
9. membership
  64
  
  86
10. motto and seal
  64
11. nonmembers in
  65
12. opening exercises combined with Young Women
  71
13. purpose
  64
14. sisters serving in other auxiliaries
  64
15. transition from Young Women to
  64
  
  71–72
  
  77
16. unwed mothers in
  86
17. welfare work of
  36–37
  
  70–71
18. young single adult sisters, responsibility for
  71–72
  
  125–26
19. young single adult sisters, separate class for
  72
Relief Society, stake leaders and meetings
1. stake presidency
  72
  
  120
2. stake Relief Society presidency
  26–27
  
  72
  
  121
  
  145–46
3. stake Relief Society secretary
  122
4. general Relief Society meeting, stake meeting with
  72
5. stake Relief Society leadership meeting
  67
  
  145–46
  
  152
Relief Society, ward leaders
1. advisers to young single adult sisters
  66
2. bishopric
  65
3. compassionate service coordinator
  66
4. Relief Society meeting coordinator and committee
  66
5. Relief Society music leaders
  66–67
6. Relief Society pianists
  66–67
7. Relief Society presidency
  65
  
  71–72
8. Relief Society secretary
  65–66
9. Relief Society teachers
  66
10. visiting teaching coordinator
  66
11. visiting teaching supervisors
  66
Relief Society, ward meetings
1. additional Relief Society meetings
  68–69
  
  149
2. children’s class for additional Relief Society meetings
  69
3. Relief Society presidency meeting
  67
4. Sunday Relief Society meetings
  67–68
  
  149
Research studies, Church
190
Retention
Reverence
1. leaders encourage
  13–14
  
  139
2. in Primary
  89
  
  94
3. in sacrament meeting
  13–14
  
  139–40
  
  173

Sacrament
1. general instructions for priesthood ordinances
  168–69
2. Aaronic Priesthood holders’ responsibilities
  173–74
3. blessing and passing
  139
  
  173–74
4. dress for priesthood holders
  173
5. hymn
  173–74
6. nonmembers’ partaking of
  173
7. preparing
  173
Sacrament meeting
1. general guidelines
  132–33
  
  138–40
  
  149
2. canceling in extreme situations
  132–33
  
  192
3. children’s sacrament meeting presentation
  92
  
  140
4. converts confirmed in
  23
  
  172
5. high councilors speaking in
  121
  
  140
6. members unable to attend
  140
7. missionaries speaking in
  139–40
8. music for
  115–16
  
  139
  
  173–74
9. new members, introducing
  140
10. not held outside unit boundaries
  106
  
  140
11. planning and conducting
  139
12. prayers in
  146
13. presides, which priesthood leader
  138
  
  174
14. purposes of
  138
15. reverence in
  13–14
  
  139–40
  
  173
16. in Sunday meeting schedule
  153–54
17. talks in
  139–40
18. in unusual situations
  140
19. visual aids or audiovisual materials in
  146
  
  180
20. young men and women, recognizing in
  52
  
  78
21. youth speaking in
  139
Sacrament prayer
1. errors in offering
  174
2. guidelines for
  174
Safety at Church activities
109–10

135
Sales agents
190
Same-gender marriages
196
Satellite
1. broadcast at stake conference
  142
2. and video equipment, use of Church
  190
Scout camp
59

60–61

104
Scouting
1. overview of
  59
2. bishopric oversees
  52
  
  59
  
  88
3. Friends of Scouting
  107
4. in Mutual
  59
5. nonmembers’ participation in
  61
6. in Primary
  90
  
  92–94
7. in quorum presidency meetings
  56
8. stake presidency oversees
  60
9. ward Young Men presidency’s responsibilities
  54
  
  59
Scriptures, authorized versions of
132

180–81
Sealing the anointing
174–75
Second and third Sunday priesthood and Relief Society meetings
46

67–68
Secretary
1. Aaronic Priesthood quorums
  53
2. elders quorums and high priests groups
  42
3. Primary
  89
4. Relief Society
  65–66
5. Sunday School
  97
6. Young Men
  54
7. Young Women
  79–80
8. Young Women classes
  80
Security
109–10

135
Self-awareness groups
194
Self-reliance
1. definition and importance of
  34–35
2. Church activities teach
  102
3. family-needs visits and
  70–71
4. high priests groups, elders quorums, and Relief Society leaders’ responsibilities for
  36
  
  70
5. Relief Society classes teach
  69
Service
Service member groups, military, callings of
166
Serving areas in meetinghouses
193
Setting apart
1. bishops
  158–59
2. officers and teachers
  158
Sex education
196
Sharing time, Primary
89–93
Sick, administering to
174–75
Signs on meetinghouses
181
Single adult committee, stake
124

152
Single adults (ages 31 and older)
1. guidelines for leaders of
  124
2. activities for
  104–5
  
  124
3. high councilor’s responsibilities for
  124
4. home evening groups for
  124
5. multistake activities for
  124
6. nonmembers participate in
  124
7. overnight activities for
  108
8. stake presidency’s responsibilities for
  124
9. stake single adult committee
  124
  
  152
Single expectant parents
1. general guidelines for
  196–97
2. adoption of children encouraged
  196–97
3. membership record for baby born out of wedlock
  170
4. single parents in conventional wards
  129
5. unwed mothers in Relief Society or Young Women
  86
Single members
Special needs
Sperm donation
197
Sports
1. guidelines for
  110
2. activities
  103
3. coaches, Young Men sports teams
  54
4. uniforms
  104
  
  110
Stake, multistake, and area activities
Stake Aaronic Priesthood–Young Women committee
1. members and purpose of
  60
  
  85–86
  
  145
  
  152
2. youth conference, planning of
  105–6
Stake activities, Young Men and Young Women
86

145
Stake activities committee
105

145
Stake and multistake choirs
117
Stake auxiliary leadership meetings
145–46

152
Stake auxiliary presidencies
26–27

121

145–46
Stake bishops’ welfare council meeting
152
Stake callings
156

159–61
Stake conference
1. guidelines for
  142–43
  
  151
2. music at
  117
3. satellite broadcast at
  142
4. when held
  133
Stake council
1. overview of responsibilities
  12
  
  145
  
  151
2. members of
  121
  
  145
3. welfare responsibilities
  37
  
  145
Stake general priesthood meeting
143

151
Stake high priests quorum meeting
47

144

151
Stake music
1. adviser
  116
2. chairman
  116–17
3. specialists
  117
Stake presidency, responsibilities of
1. Aaronic Priesthood quorums
  60
2. activation
  27
3. convert retention
  26
4. meetinghouse library
  98
5. Melchizedek Priesthood quorums
  40–41
  
  175
6. member missionary work
  24
7. music
  116
8. Primary
  93
  
  120
9. Relief Society
  72
  
  120
10. single adults
  124
11. Sunday School
  98
  
  120
12. teaching the gospel
  31
13. temple and family history work
  29
14. welfare
  37
15. Young Men
  60
  
  120
16. young single adults
  125
17. Young Women
  85
  
  120
Stake presidency meeting
144

151
Stake presidency’s interviews of bishops
24

26–27

125
Stake presidency’s meeting with bishoprics
145

151
Stake priesthood executive committee
1. high councilors serve on
  121
2. Meetings, guidelines for
  144
  
  151
Stake priesthood leadership meeting
46

57

143–44

151
Stake Primary
Stake Relief Society
Stake single adult committee
124

152
Stake specialists
122
Stake Sunday School
Stake welfare specialists
37
Stake Young Men
Stake young single adult committee
125

152
Stake Young Women
Standards
1. teaching to young men
  57
2. teaching to young women
  81–82
Standards events
59

84
Standard works, authorized versions of
132

180–81
Sterilization, surgical
197
Stillborn children
194
Suicide
197
Sunday
1. activities on
  109
2. scheduling meetings on
  138
Sunday meeting schedule
1. general guidelines
  138
  
  153–54
2. altered only in extreme situations
  132–33
  
  192
3. for units with different languages
  154
Sunday School
1. purposes of
  96
2. adapting to local needs
  99
3. classes and curriculum
  97–98
  
  149
4. disabilities, classes for members with
  98
  
  187
5. family history course
  29
6. gospel learning and teaching
  30–31
  
  96–98
7. Gospel Principles class
  26–27
8. meetinghouse library
  96–98
9. Teaching the Gospel course
  31
10. young single adults, classes for
  98
  
  127
11. youth, classes for
  98
Sunday School, stake leaders and meetings
1. high councilor
  99
  
  145
2. stake presidency
  98
  
  120
3. stake Sunday School presidency
  26–27
  
  99
  
  121
  
  145–46
4. stake Sunday School secretary
  122
5. stake Sunday School leadership meeting
  97
  
  145–46
  
  152
Sunday School, ward leaders and meetings
1. bishopric
  96–97
2. Sunday School class presidents
  97
3. Sunday School presidency
  30–31
  
  96–98
4. Sunday School secretary
  97
5. Sunday School teachers
  97
6. meeting with counselor in bishopric
  97
7. Sunday School presidency meeting
  97
Surrogate motherhood
197
Sustaining and releasing
1. guidelines for
  157–58
  
  159–66
2. in sacrament meeting
  139
Symposia, members’ participation in
190–91

Talks, in sacrament meeting
139–40
Taxes
1. and Church activities
  111
  
  191–92
2. income
  184
3. tax-exempt status
  111
  
  191–92
Teachers, gospel
1. priesthood and auxiliary leaders’ responsibilities for
  30–31
  
  96–98
2. Primary
  89–90
3. quorum
  30–31
  
  42
4. Relief Society
  66
5. Sunday School
  97
6. teaching the gospel, basic principles
  31
Teachers quorum
1. overview of teachers’ responsibilities
  50
2. home teaching responsibilities of
  43–44
3. secretary, duties of
  53
4. Sunday quorum meetings
  46–47
  
  57
  
  141
  
  149
Teachers quorum presidency
1. calling and sustaining of
  52–53
2. duties of
  53
3. full-time missions, preparing young men for
  55
4. leadership meetings of
  56
5. Scouting responsibilities of
  59
Teaching the gospel
1. hymns, use in
  116
2. purposes of
  30
3. teaching principles for teachers and leaders
  31
4. ward council, discussed in
  18
  
  30
Teaching the gospel, leaders’ responsibilities for
1. overview of Church leaders’ responsibility
  12
2. bishopric
  30
3. priesthood and auxiliary leaders
  30
4. stake presidency
  31
5. Sunday School presidency, stake
  99
6. Sunday School presidency, ward
  30–31
  
  96–97
7. ward council
  18
  
  30
Teaching the Gospel course
31
Temple and family history work
1. overview of members’ responsibilities
  27–28
2. family history centers
  29–30
3. family history course
  29
4. FamilySearch indexing
  29
5. no quotas or reporting systems for
  27–28
6. no temple ordinances for unrelated persons without approval
  28
7. online family history resources
  29
8. temple preparation seminars
  28–29
  
  45
Temple and family history work, leaders’ responsibilities
1. bishopric
  28
2. family history consultants
  28–29
3. high councilors
  29
4. high priests group leader
  22
  
  28
  
  41
5. stake presidency
  29
6. ward council
  18
  
  28–29
Temple clothing and garments
1. burial in
  47
  
  73
  
  148
2. disposing of
  191
3. dress for sisters when attending temples
  73
4. obtaining and wearing
  191
5. temple aprons, making
  191
Temple ordinances
1. for famous people
  28
2. leaders encourage members to receive
  27–28
3. not discussed specifically in meetings
  133
Temple preparation seminar
28–29

45
Temple recommends
1. endowed members should have
  27
2. interview questions not to be altered
  132
3. in young single adult stakes
  129
Temple visits, organizing
111
Testimonies
1. in fast and testimony meeting
  94
  
  141
2. in Primary
  94
  
  141
Theatrical productions, copyright laws for
183
Theme
1. Mutual
  58
  
  83
2. Primary
  88
3. Young Women
  76
Transition
1. to Church membership
  24–26
2. from Young Women to Relief Society
  64
  
  71–72
  
  77
Travel
1. adaptations for difficulty of
  134
2. in Church activities
  111
Tuning, pianos and organs
118

Uniformity and adaptation
Uniforms for sports
104

110
Unmarried members
1. guidelines for leaders of
  124
2. dating businesses for
  183
3. eternal promises to
  4
4. leaders strengthen
  5
5. sisters included in quorum or group activities
  42
Unwed mothers

Values, Young Women
76–77
Vasectomy
197
Video and satellite equipment, use of Church
142

190
Video recordings, not made in meetinghouses
193
Viewings, guidelines for
147
Visiting teachers
1. guidelines for
  69–70
2. activation, responsibilities for
  27
3. adapting visiting teaching to local needs
  70
  
  134
4. confidentiality
  70
5. converts, responsibilities for
  25
  
  69–70
6. full-time sister missionaries and
  25
  
  70
7. for sisters serving in other auxiliaries
  64
8. for sisters without Melchizedek Priesthood in home
  10
9. visiting teaching coordinator
  66
10. visiting teaching supervisors
  66
11. welfare, responsibilities for
  37
12. for young single adult sisters
  71–72
Visual aids or audiovisual materials, use in sacrament meeting
146

180
Voter registration in meetinghouses
192

Ward callings
157

161–64
Ward clerk, ward council responsibilities
16–19
Ward conference
133

141

149
Ward council, responsibilities of
1. overview of responsibilities
  12
  
  16–19
  
  22
2. meetings of, guidelines for
  17–19
  
  150
3. members of and purposes
  16
  
  22
  
  150
4. activation
  18
  
  27
5. activities
  17
  
  102
6. confidentiality
  16
  
  18
  
  38
7. convert retention
  18
  
  25
8. disabilities, members with
  36
9. literacy
  71
10. member missionary work
  17–18
  
  22–24
11. Perpetual Education Fund
  18
12. teaching the gospel
  18
  
  30
13. temple and family history work
  18
  
  28–29
14. welfare
  18
  
  35–36
15. work of salvation in the ward
  22
Ward meetings
Ward mission leader
22–27

170–71
Ward mission leader, assistant
22
Ward mission plan
18

22–27
Ward missionaries
1. responsibilities
  23
2. activation, responsibilities for
  23–24
  
  27
3. convert retention, responsibilities for
  25
Ward music
1. adviser
  114
2. chairman
  114–15
  
  117
3. director
  114–15
4. organist or pianist
  114
Ward priesthood executive committee
1. definition of
  16
2. meetings, guidelines for
  16
  
  150
3. welfare responsibilities of
  36
Weddings, music for
118
Welfare
1. overview of
  34–38
2. assistance to poor and needy
  35–37
3. confidentiality of welfare needs
  38
4. families, members receive help from
  34
5. family-needs visits
  36
  
  70–71
6. Lord’s storehouse
  35
7. members’ responsibilities for
  35
8. purposes of
  34–35
9. self-reliance
  34–35
Welfare, leaders’ responsibilities
1. bishopric
  35
2. elders quorum presidency
  36–37
  
  44
3. employment specialist
  37
4. high priests group leaders
  36–37
  
  44
5. home teachers
  37
6. Relief Society
  36–37
  
  70–71
7. stake council
  37
  
  145
8. stake president
  37
9. visiting teachers
  37
10. ward council
  18
  
  35–36
11. ward priesthood executive committee
  36
12. welfare specialists, stake
  37
13. welfare specialists, ward
  37
Web sites, stake and ward
184–85
Witnesses, of a baptism
171
Word of Wisdom
1. guidelines for
  194–95
2. at Church activities
  103
3. obedience to
  34

Young adults
Young Men
1. adapting to local needs
  60
  
  134–35
2. disabilities, members with
  53
  
  61
  
  187
3. interviews of, by bishopric
  52
4. leadership skills, teaching to
  60
5. Mutual
  58
6. preparing for full-time missions
  55
7. Scout leaders, presidency serves as
  54
  
  59
8. stake activities for
  145
Young Men, stake leaders and meetings
1. high councilor
  60
  
  146
2. stake Aaronic Priesthood–Young Women committee
  60
  
  145
  
  152
3. stake presidency
  60
  
  120
4. stake Young Men presidency
  26–27
  
  121
  
  146
5. stake Young Men secretary
  122
6. stake priesthood leadership meeting
  46
  
  57
  
  143–44
  
  151
Young Men, ward leaders
1. assistant Aaronic Priesthood quorum advisers
  54
2. sports coaches
  54
3. Young Men presidency
  53–54
  
  59
4. Young Men secretary
  54
Young Men, ward meetings
1. bishopric youth committee meeting
  56
  
  142
  
  150
2. Young Men presidency meeting
  56–57
Young single adults (ages 18 to 30)
1. activities, ward and stake
  104–5
  
  126–28
2. activities, multistake and area
  104–5
  
  127
  
  134
3. adapting to local needs
  134–35
4. centers for
  127–28
5. home evening groups for
  127–28
6. home teachers for
  44
  
  128
7. institute classes for
  127
8. interviews of, by bishopric
  125
9. leadership skills, teaching
  13
10. membership records for
  128–29
11. nonmember participation in
  126
12. Relief Society, separate class for sisters
  72
13. Sunday School classes for
  98
  
  127
14. visiting teachers for
  71–72
15. young single parents and
  129
Young single adults, leaders’ responsibilities
1. general guidelines for
  124–25
2. advisers to young single adult sisters
  66
3. bishopric
  125
4. elders quorum counselor
  125–26
5. high councilor
  125
6. Relief Society counselor
  125–26
7. Relief Society presidency
  71–72
8. stake presidency
  125
9. young single adult advisers
  126
10. young single adult leaders
  126
Young single adult advisers
126
Young single adult committee
1. stake
  125
  
  152
2. ward
  126
  
  150
Young single adult wards and stakes
128–29
Young Womanhood Recognition
78

83
Young Women
1. 18-year-old young women
  64
  
  71–72
  
  77
2. adapting to local needs
  86
  
  134–35
3. Beehives
  77
4. disabilities, young women with
  80
  
  82
  
  86
  
  187
5. interviews of, by bishopric
  77–78
  
  83
6. Laurels
  77
7. leaders support parents
  78
8. leadership skills, teaching
  85
9. Mia Maids
  77
10. motto and logo
  76
11. nonmembers’ participation in
  86
12. opening exercises
  71
  
  82
  
  153
13. purpose
  76
14. Sunday classes
  77
  
  82
  
  149
15. theme
  76
16. transition to Relief Society
  64
  
  71–72
  
  77
17. unwed mothers in
  86
18. values
  76–77
19. young women pregnant out of wedlock
  86
Young Women, activities and events
1. bishopric youth discussions
  84
  
  106
2. funding for
  85
3. Mutual
  83–84
4. New Beginnings
  84
5. stake activities
  86
  
  145
6. standards events
  84
7. Young Women camp
  84–85
  
  104
8. Young Women in Excellence
  84
9. youth under 14, participation of
  86
  
  108–9
Young Women, class presidencies
1. calling and sustaining
  78–79
2. duties of
  80
  
  82–84
3. presidency meetings
  81
4. secretaries
  80
Young Women, stake leaders and meetings
1. high councilor
  85
  
  145
2. stake Aaronic Priesthood–Young Women committee
  85–86
  
  145
  
  152
3. stake presidency
  85
  
  120
4. stake Young Women activity specialists
  86
5. stake Young Women presidency
  26–27
  
  121
  
  145–46
6. stake Young Women secretary
  122
7. stake Young Women leadership meeting
  81
  
  145–46
  
  152
Young Women, ward leaders
1. bishopric
  78–79
  
  83
2. Young Women activity specialists
  80
3. Young Women advisers
  80
4. Young Women music director
  80
5. Young Women pianist
  80
6. Young Women presidency
  79
7. Young Women secretary
  79–80
Young Women, ward meetings
1. bishopric youth committee meeting
  80–81
  
  142
  
  150
2. class presidency meetings
  81
3. meeting with bishopric counselor
  81
4. Sunday classes
  82
5. Young Women presidency meeting
  81
Young Women camp
84–85

104
Young Women in Excellence
84
Youth conferences
1. ward and stake
  105–6
2. youth under 14, participation of
  60–61
  
  86, 108–9
Youth
1. interviews by bishopric
  52
  
  78
2. leaders’ purposes for
  14
3. speaking in sacrament meeting
  139

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Index

Handbook 2:
Administering the Church