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New Visiting Teaching One Billion Records Now Topics Begin in October on FamilySearch eginning in October 2013 the teaching is our opportunity to follow By R. Scott Lloyd BRelief Society Visiting Teaching His example. Church News Messages will focus on the divine President Henry B. Eyring, First olunteers around the world of Jesus Christ and His many Counselor in the First Presidency, Vindexing (digitizing) the roles and attributes. testified that “visiting teaching is Church’s vast collection of genea- As we read in Daughters in my part of the Lord’s plan to provide logical records collectively reached a Kingdom: The History and Work of help for people all over the world. major milestone on April 19, 2013. Relief Society, “When Jesus Christ . . . ‘He set a pattern in place.’” 4 On that date they attained one was on the earth, He showed us the As visiting teachers, we also remem- billion searchable records added to way we should live.” 1 By studying ber President Thomas S. Monson’s the Church’s FamilySearch website and focusing on the roles and attrib- counsel: “We are the Lord’s hands in less than seven years. Volunteers have been extracting utes of the Savior, the sisters in the here upon the earth, with the or indexing records in earnest since Church will learn to be like Him2 and mandate to serve and to lift His 1978, but in September 2006 the will be able to discuss with the sisters children. He is dependent upon Family History Department launched 5 they serve how the teachings and each of us.” ◼ a major innovation inviting virtually

example of the Savior can influence NOTES anyone anywhere to log on to the their lives. 1. Daughters in My Kingdom: The History site and sign up to participate in the and Work of Relief Society (2011), 105. The Lord showed us how to minister 2. See Moroni 7:48. indexing project. 3. See Daughters in My Kingdom, “The documents are drawn —how to watch over, strengthen, and 105; Handbook 2: Administering teach one another. His was a ministry the Church, 9.5. primarily from a collection of 4. Daughters in My Kingdom, 110. 2.4 million rolls of microfilm contain- to individuals, one by one.3 Visiting 5. Daughters in My Kingdom, 112. ing photographic images of histor- ical documents from 110 countries and principalities,” explains a wiki entry on the FamilySearch site. “The documents include census records, birth and death certificates, mar- riage licenses, military and property records, and other vital records main- tained by local, state, and national governments.” ◼ © IRI

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