The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

When a priest is standing in the circle where a MP holder is serving as voice to confer the AP and/or to ordain to an office, what is the proper wording for stating the authority by which the ordinance is being done? Official church instruction is: 1. Calls the person by his full name. 2. States the...

So. . .we still (usually) use MLS for entering expenses and printing checks. The exception would be when we need to split one expense across different budget categories--LCR allows that, MLS from what I can tell does not. Anyway. . .after printing a single or batch of checks in MLS, MLS spits out an...

We have a Xerox Phaser 3250 that is depositing horizontal lines of toner throughout the page when we print. We contacted the stake clerk who contact FM who replied: "The Building Rep is in charge of this printer. He will need to call the phone number on the side of the printer to trouble shoot ...

Hello, I'm wondering if the information found here: https://www.lds.org/help/support/finances-during-changes?lang=eng is still relevant. The pages says it was last updated in March 2014. I have been told that now donation records will follow members when they move to another ward, which should remov...

I don't have a specific question that I think can get answered here, just looking for a collective shoulder to cry on a little. . .our bishopric was recently reorganized and I ended up with my second favorite calling: assistant ward clerk. My first task was to print out labels for the new bishop to ...

Hello, I have a clerk calling once again (assistant ward clerk) and am trying to locate the financial audit questions, so I know what to watch out for. Are they available anywhere as a PDF document? I looked here: https://www.lds.org/help/support/record-keeping/finance/financial-audits?lang=eng but ...

Our ward leadership is getting ready to high-level calendar 2016 and I noticed that Christmas falls on a Sunday in 2016. I vaguely remember authorization for a shortened block the last time that happened, am I remembering correctly?

Way off topic, for you seasoned clerks. . .we have a family in the ward that lost a child several weeks into the pregnancy. They're planning a simple, family-only graveside at which the father plans to dedicate the grave. I assume this is appropriate. The handbook doesn't say one way or the other. A...

We got into an animated discussion about this form the other day, specifically about who interviews the candidate. By my reading of it, in the instructions at the top it references "interviewing priesthood leaders" (plural), and there are signature lines for both the bishop and the stake (...

We are trying to clean up our act for 2015. . . Somehow we have gotten and have actively used subcategories under Budget Allocations for Scouting Boy Scouts and Scouting Cub Scouts , see attached. budget_snip.jpg After researching and educating ourselves, we know this is a no no. But we also learned...