THIRD WEEK - NOVEMBER CHALLENGE

Washington D C Temple taken by Bob Wooley

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. I am very thankful for the Priesthood support and for everyone who is doing the Lord's work by indexing. It truly is "A temple experience you can have in your own home"!

 Third Week Results

of the Stake Indexing 

Challenge.
225,000 names in November
(Nov 21,2012 cum for November)

WARD                                 NAMES INDEXED & ARBITRATED

Clinton                                                           7924

Edmond First                                              14,984

Edmond Second                                         25,333

Okc Fifth                                                    29,333

Okc First                                                    19,234

Okc Fourth Branch                                          107

Okc Third                                                   13,623

Quail Creek                                                16,292

Village                                                        23,266

Woodward Branch                                     33,806

YOUTH WARD                                        NAMES INDEXED

Okc Fifth                                                     806

Okc First                                                         5

Okc Fourth Branch                                      215

Quail Creek                                                  176

Village                                                        1060

Three Units Reached Goal of 
25,000 names before Thanksgiving day
Woodward on Nov 15
Okc Fifth on Nov 17
Edmond 2nd  on Nov 20
Congratulations to all of you for your hard work and efforts to make your goal. May you continue on to help the Stake reach the Monthly goal.

STAKE NOVEMBER TOTAL
186,164  (38,836 to go!)

STAKE YEAR TO DATE TOTAL
1,204,974
That's awesome Work. Thank You.

Top Youth Indexers Report

A Report on the top 5 Youth

Indexers in the Stake

As of today, November 19th 2012, these are the  five outstanding Youth Indexers in the Oklahoma City Oklahoma Stake:

1. Megan Green          2971 names  - Edmond First
2. Nathan Connelly     2015 names - Oklahoma First
3. Emma Aquino         1420 names - Oklahoma First
4. Chandler Haymore  1321 names - Edmond First
5. Elizabeth Mendus    1241 names - Oklahoma First

(cumulative for the year to date) 

But Beware, Village Ward and Oklahoma City Fifth Ward have youth who are really working hard for our November Challenge. If the top five would like to maintain their status they might want to add a few more names to their credit. Otherwise this list will be changing.

You have till the end of the year(December 31st)  to become one of the top 5 Youth Indexers. These top 5 and their families will be invited to our Annual Stake Indexing Awards Social in February.  Parents please encourage your youth to engage in this work.

 I am really proud of our Youth who have worked hard at Indexing, You are all doing a good job, but don't give up. You will be surprised how a little work done regularly, adds up.

The Third Week of the November Stake Challenge report will be posted on Wednesday night (Nov. 21).

Second Week November Challenge

Sacramento Temple

Second Week of Nov. Stake Challenge

225,00 names

Nov 14, 2012

Ward or Branch            total names 

Clinton                             2331

Edmond First                   4841

Edmond Second              8904

Okc Fifth                         9513

Okc First                         5359

Okc Fourth Branch             35

Okc Third                       6163

Quail Creek                    3359

University

Village                            8012

Woodward Branch          9388

Youth by Ward or Branch-total names 

Clinton                                        

Edmond Second                                   10

Edmond First

Okc Fifth                                             240

Okc First

Okc Fourth Branch                              147

Quail Creek                                         114

Village                                                   47

Woodward Branch 

Stake Total for First Two Weeks- Fantastic!

120,061

A BIG thank you to everyone  helping

the Stake to reach the November Stake Challenge of 225,000 names. 

I hope that you have the opportunity to attend the Temple as often as possible this month.

Catch the Vision of the Abrahamic Covenants; which include the Priesthood Power to Seal, and the promise of Eternal Life.

First Week November Results

Hip! Hip! Hooray!

 The first week in November and our big Stake Indexing challenge has started.  We have added 59 new Indexers since the end of October. 
The Woodward Branch, with just 9 indexers/arbitrators, is in the lead this week with 14,296 names. Way to go Woodward!

I am looking forward to going out to Woodward this coming Sunday to speak, along with High Councilmen Dale Brannon. You inspire us all to work harder.

My three great aunts from Philadelpia, PA.

Just a Note

So far, after one full week of indexing, our Stake has completed 60,261 names. Great Job everyone!

Let's keep the momentum going. 

Stake Indexing Million Month

WE DID IT!!!  CONGRATULATIONS

AND THANK YOU TO ALL 

1,000,070 NAMES

On October 22 @ 3:27 pm

WHAT A FANTASTIC JOB

I am so proud to be part of this Stake

and to work with all of you in enabling 

the salvation for our ancestors !!!

OCTOBER STATS BY WARD/BRANCH

indexed and arbitrated together

• Clinton                             427
• Edmond First                  9311
• Edmond Second           12124
• no location assign             306
• OKC Fifth                        7895
• OKC First                        3588
• OKC Third                       8503
• University                            25
• Quail Creek                     9470
• Village                             3337
• Woodward                     15704  

Youth by Ward

Edmond First                            55

Edmond Second                      200

OKC Fifth                                  50

OKC First                                    9

Quail Creek                               23

Total for the Month of October 71,027 names, Good Work!

NOVEMBER STAKE TEMPLE MONTH

The Stake Presidency has asked each of us to attend the Temple though-out the month of November as much as we can. There are two days assigned for each Ward in which we are asked to fill the Temple the whole day. Then we are asked to choose one more day, for a total of three days, that we can go to the Temple.To attend as many endowment sessions, Initiatory Sessions  or Sealing sessions as possible each day.Please check with your High Priest Group Leader for your Ward Temple assignment days.

 We should also be preparing our own family file cards to take with us. Did you know that only 2.4% of the  world-wide Church membership is taking their family names to the Temple to do the work? In checking with the Oklahoma City Temple Recorder about our percentage of Family file cards verses the Temple name cards, he told me that at least 50% of the work done in the OKC Temple is for Family File names.  That made me feel very happy, and that is for the whole Temple District, not just our Stake.

Indexing tib bits

Manti, Utah Temple Aug 2, 2012

What a beautiful Temple sitting up on a hill over looking the town  of Manti, Utah, just across the road from the community cemetery. We visited there this summer. 

Regional Stake Single Adult Conference, Oct 20 2012

Joyce Hughes, Martin Dobson, Stacy May, Shara Preston

Today at the Surrey Hills Ward building, next to the Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Stake Temple an all day regional Conference took place for the singles over 30. It was a great pleasure  to go and help them with Indexing, one of their service projects.  Evelyn Kelley Aquino helped for two hours in the morning and I was able to be there most of the afternoon. There was a great deal of interest in the Indexing project with at least three indexers working at all times. A great deal of hard work went into planning this event and everyone had a spiritual uplifting experience. Thank you for including Indexing as one of your projects!

NOVEMBER CHALLENGE

225,000 NAMES

IN ONE MONTH!!!!!!

We can do it, but we need all 493 members who have signed up to index to do their part. If everyone helped each person would only have to do 457 names in order to reach our goal.

At the current rate of 99 indexers working in October, they would have to index or arbitrate 2273 names each. Just shows what happens if all work together.

October Indexing Open House

Catch the Vision

Indexing and Family History work lead to the TEMPLE

The Stake Indexing Directors and Stake Family History Center Directors were invited to an Open house in Salt Lake City on October 5th, 2012.The Keynote speaker was Elder Dennis Brimhall, Managing Director of the Family History Department.I was very privileged to be able to attend this all day event and I learned many things.  Some of which I would like to share with all of the Indexers and Arbitrators in Oklahoma City Stake.  This event gave me a whole new perspective on the role of Indexing. It also gave me another chance to visit my children , grandchildren and great grandchildren who live in Utah. :)

• We need to make the connection between Indexing and Family History work and the Temple. 

I was shocked to learn that on a Church-wide basis, only 2.4% of the members are preparing their family names to take to the Temple. That means that over 97% of us are not doing the work for our ancestors.  Why is that? Elder Brimhall said it was because many have dis-connected the "turning of their hearts" and Temple Worship. While it is not a waste of time to take a Temple name through a Temple session, it is by taking our own ancestors names that we will be able to receive both parts of the  Abrahamic Promise; even eternal life.

• The purpose of Indexing and Family History work is to help members perform Vicarious ordinances for their ancestors.   
• Indexing is inseparable from Family History work. It is the driving force, helping family history work soar to new heights.
• Many think that family history work is to be performed primarily by older people.  Elder Bednar said "I know of no age limit described in the scriptures or guidelines " of the church. All members, and all youth are invited to participate in Indexing and Family History work. There were special training sessions available at the Family History Library about implementing  Elder Bednar's Youth challenge to Index.
• Indexing is a valuable tool to use to "Rescue the One".
• Indexing  helps new member retention rates. There is an 80-90% retention rate for new converts who do indexing/family history work and go to the Temple for Baptisms, within a few weeks of their own baptism.
• Indexing was described by one Stake President as " A Temple experience that you can have in your own home".

STAKE INDEXING CHALLENGE FOR NOVEMBER

225,000 NAMES

In case you haven't heard, this is a new challenge that the Stake Presidency has set for November. This activity goes along with our Stake Temple Month, where we are encouraged to attend the Temple as frequently as possible. 

The Indexing challenge  is  to enable all members, active, inactive, home-bound, new members, investigators, or those without a current  Temple recommend,  to experience  that same Spirit  as they would if they could go to a Temple session.

A Challenge TIP!

If you want to get a jump-start on your indexing for November then try this:  After October 25th, download and index some batches and do not send them back. Save them till November 1st, then return all the batches you have worked.

Since there is a 7 day limit on how long you can have a batch in your work page, it is ok not to click on "send batch now" after the computer does the quality check. The batch will sit there till you decide to return it or the 7 day limit.

 Do not wait longer than 7 days  because  the batch will be withdrawn from your computer and you will not get any credit for your work.