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
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. Abortion, Church policies on 195
7. Abuse
1. at Church activities 109
2. Church's position on 195
8. Accidents
1. at Church activities, reporting 109–10
2. insurance for, in Church activities 107
9. 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
10. 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
11. 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
12. 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
13. Activities committee, stake 105 145
14. Activities directors, stake 105
15. Activities specialists, stake 105 122
16. Activity days 90 92
17. Activity Insurance Program, Church 107 110
18. Activity specialists, Young Women
1. stake 86
2. ward 80
19. 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
20. Additional Relief Society meetings, guidelines for 68–69 149
21. Administering to the sick, guidelines for 174–75
22. Adoption
1. biological parents, contact with 180
2. encouraged for single expectant parents 196–97
3. legal requirements for 180
23. Advisers
1. Aaronic Priesthood quorum 53–54
2. young single adult 66 126
3. Young Women 80
24. Agendas, leaders' use in meetings 14 138
25. 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
26. AIDS or HIV, Church policies on 193–94
27. Anointing, administering to the sick 174–75
28. Aprons, temple, making 191
29. Area activities
30. Area Seventies
31. Artificial insemination, Church policies on 195
32. Artwork in meetinghouses 192
33. Ashes, dedication of place where, are kept 176
34. Assistant Aaronic Priesthood quorum advisers 54
35. Assistants to president of priests quorum 51–53
36. Assistant ward mission leader 22
37. Audiovisual materials or visual aids
1. copyright guidelines for 183
2. use in Church settings 146 180
38. Auditions, not held for choirs 116
39. Autographs of General Authorities 180
40. Autopsies 193
41. Auxiliaries, purposes of 64 76 88 96
42. Auxiliary leadership meetings, stake 145–46 152
43. Auxiliary presidencies, stake 26–27 121 145–46
1. 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
2. Beehives
1. definition of 77
2. Personal Progress, introducing Beehives to 82–83
3. Bible, which edition to use 132 180
4. Birth control 195
5. Bishop, calling and ordaining of 158–59 162
6. 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
7. Bishopric meeting, guidelines for 16 141–42 149
8. 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
9. Bishopric youth discussions 58 84 106
10. Bishoprics, stake presidency's meeting with 145 151
11. Bishops' storehouse 35
12. Bishops' welfare council meeting, stake 152
13. Blessings, priesthood
14. Block schedule for Sunday meetings 153–54
15. Book of Mormon, not rewritten in modern English 181
16. Branch
1. callings 164 165–66
2. conference, guidelines for 133 141 149
17. Burial, guidelines for 148
1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. Canceling sacrament meeting 132–33 192
5. Candles in meetinghouses 192
6. Centers for young adults 127–28
7. Chapel, music appropriate in 118
8. Chastity 4 193 195–96
9. Children, parents' responsibility for 2 4–5 9–10
10. Children's
1. class for additional Relief Society meetings 69
2. sacrament meeting presentation 92 140
11. 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
12. Church
1. family is basic unit of 9 14
2. purposes of 9
13. Church activities
14. Church Activity Insurance Program 107
15. Church curriculum
16. Church magazines
1. copyright guidelines for 182
2. executive secretaries help with 181
3. members should read 181
4. subscription efforts for 181
17. Church meetinghouses
18. Church name and logotype 181
19. Church welfare
20. Class presidencies
21. Class presidents, Sunday School 97
22. Clothing for baptism 171
23. Combined activities, Mutual 58 83–84
24. Common judge, bishop 159
25. Compassionate service
1. coordinator 66
2. Relief Society meeting topic 69
3. Relief Society's responsibility for 71
26. Computers
1. confidentiality of information 182
2. copyright laws for software 183
3. use of, in Church units 181
27. 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
28. 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
29. 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
30. Consecrating oil 174
31. 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
32. 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
33. Coordinating council meetings
1. emergency plans 37
2. multistake activities 104–5
3. travel in Church activities 111
34. 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
35. Councils, purposes of 10 12 16
36. Covenants, definition of 9
37. Cremation 148 176 193
38. Cultural arts activities 103 106
39. Curfew laws for Church activities 106
40. 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
1. 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
2. Dating businesses 183
3. Day camp 92 94 104
4. 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
5. 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
6. Deaf members, interpretation for
1. of Church meetings 188
2. of ordinances and blessings 188
7. 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
8. Decorations in meetinghouses 192
9. Dedicating graves 169 176
10. Dedicating homes 176–77
11. Deity, portrayals in Church activities 94 109
12. Delegation, principles of 13
13. Devotionals in Church activities 107
14. Directories, stake and ward 183 189
15. 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
16. Disciplinary councils
1. interpreters for deaf during 188
2. leaders do not deviate from instructions 133
17. Dissenting votes during sustaining 157
18. Divorce and single adult activities 124 126
19. Dress standards
1. for Church activities 102–3
2. for priesthood holders passing the sacrament 173
3. for sisters 73
20. Duty to God program 52 55 57–58
1. Education, self-reliance in 34
2. Elder
1. definition and responsibilities of 40
2. ordaining 175–76
3. sustaining 143
4. when young men are ordained 24–25 56
3. 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
4. E-mail, use to reduce travel 134
5. 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
6. Emigration of members 183–84
7. Employment
1. and Church callings 156
2. consistent with gospel 186
3. self-reliance in 34
4. specialist 37
8. Endowment
1. purpose of 27
2. temple preparation seminars for 28–29 45
9. Equipment for activities, funds for 104
10. Eternal life
11. Euthanasia 193
12. 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
13. Excommunication, no Church callings after 156
14. Executive secretary
1. Church magazines 181
2. ward council responsibilities 16–19
15. Exercise programs, guidelines for 103 111
16. Extending Church callings 157 159–66
1. Faith in God program 89 92
2. 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
3. Family history centers 29–30
4. Family history consultant
1. family history course, may teach 29
2. responsibilities of 28
5. Family history course 29
6. Family history work
7. 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
8. Family-needs visits 36 70–71
9. Family reunions, sacrament services not held at 140
10. FamilySearch indexing 29
11. Famous people, temple ordinances for 28
12. Fast, law of 184
13. 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
14. Fast offerings
1. gathering 54
2. guidelines for contributing 35
15. Fathers
1. participation in ordinances when not temple worthy 169
2. responsibilities for children 2 4–5 9–10
16. Father's blessings and other blessings of comfort and counsel 176
17. Fellowshipping
18. Fifth Sunday priesthood and Relief Society meetings 46–47 68
19. Firearms in meetinghouses 192
20. Fires in meetinghouses 192
21. First Sunday priesthood and Relief Society meetings 46 67
22. Fitness activities 103 111
23. Flags in meetinghouses 192
24. Fonts, baptismal
1. no artwork near 192
2. use for baptisms 171
25. Fourth Sunday priesthood and Relief Society meetings 46 68
26. Friends of Scouting 107
27. 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
28. Fund-raising activities
1. guidelines for 107
2. for annual camps 59 85 104
29. 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
1. Gambling and lotteries 184
2. Garments
3. 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
4. General priesthood meeting
5. General Relief Society meeting, stake meeting held with 72
6. Gift of the Holy Ghost
7. Gospel Principles class 26–27
8. Gospel teaching and learning
9. Graves, dedicating 169 176
10. Guest speakers at Church meetings 184
1. Handbooks, use of v–vi 14
2. Handicaps
3. Health, members become self-reliant in 34
4. 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
5. Hearing-impaired members 188
6. High council meeting
7. 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
8. High priest
1. definition and responsibilities of 40
2. ordaining 175–76
3. sustaining 143
9. 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
10. High priests quorum, definition of 40
11. High priests quorum meeting, stake 47 144 151
12. HIV or AIDS, Church policies on 193–94
13. Holy Ghost, gift of
14. Home evening groups
15. Home storage, members become self-reliant in 34
16. 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
17. Homes, dedicating 176–77
18. Homosexual behavior
1. Church policies concerning 195–96
2. same-gender marriages 196
19. Hymnbooks, purchasing 118
20. 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
21. Hypnosis 194
1. Inactive members
2. Income taxes 184
3. Indexing, FamilySearch 29
4. Institutes
1. centers for young adults at 127–28
2. disabilities, for members with 187
3. young single adults attend 127
5. Instructors, quorum 30–31 42
6. Instruments, musical, use in Church services 114–15
7. Insurance for Church activities 107
8. 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
9. 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
10. Investigators
11. In vitro fertilization, Church policies on 196
1. Jobs
1. Keyboards 118
2. Keys, priesthood
3. Kitchens in meetinghouses 193
1. Laurels, definition of 77
2. Laws of the land, obeying 185
3. 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
4. Learning and teaching the gospel
5. Less-active members
6. Librarian, ward 98
7. Literacy 71
8. Logotype, Church 181
9. Lord's storehouse 35
10. Lotteries and gambling 184
1. Magazines
2. Mail, items without postage in mailboxes 189
3. Marriage
1. central to God's plan 3
2. raising children in righteousness 4–5
3. single members, eternal promises to 4
4. Medical policies
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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
11. Melchizedek Priesthood leaders
12. 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
13. 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
14. 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
15. Membership records
1. after baptism 172–73
2. introducing members 140
3. in young single adult wards and stakes 128–29
16. Members of record, baptism of 88 140 170
17. Men, serving in Primary 94
18. Mia Maids, definition of 77
19. Military service member group callings 166
20. Mission callings 164–66
21. Mission leader, ward 22–27 170–71
22. Mission plan, ward 18 22–27
23. 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
24. Missionaries
25. Missionary coordination meeting 18 22–23 150
26. Missionary preparation class 55
27. Monday nights, no Church activities on 5 68 103 107–8
28. Multistake, stake, and area activities
29. 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
30. 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
31. Music adviser
1. stake 116
2. ward 114
32. Music chairman
1. stake 116–17
2. ward 114–15 117
33. 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
34. Music leaders, Relief Society 66–67
35. 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
36. Musical instruments, use in Church services 114–15
37. 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
1. 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
2. New Beginnings 84
3. New Year's Eve, activities on 107–8
4. 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
5. Nursery, Primary 89–91
1. Oil, consecrating 174
2. 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
3. Ordaining to an office
4. Ordinance, gospel, definition of 9
5. 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
6. Organ donations and transplants 194
7. Organist, ward 114 156
8. Organs
1. for practice 117 192
2. purchasing of 118
3. tuning and repair of 118
4. use in Church services 115 118
9. Orienting new teachers 30
10. Out-of-wedlock pregnancies
11. Out-of-wedlock, baby born, blessing record for 170
12. Overnight activities 108 111 193
1. Parents
1. children, responsibility for 2 4–5 9–10
2. leaders support 51 55 78
3. permission for Church activities 108 111
2. Parking lots of meetinghouses 193
3. Part-member families, leaders strengthen 5
4. Patriarchal blessings, guidelines for 177
5. Perpetual Education Fund
1. specialists for 37
2. in stake council 145
3. in ward council 18
6. 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
7. Photographs in meetinghouses 193
8. Pianist
1. priesthood 114
2. Primary 89
3. Relief Society 66–67
4. ward 114
5. Young Women 80
9. 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
10. Plan of salvation 2–3
11. Political and civic activities
1. Church facilities for 106 191–92
2. Church's involvement in 189
12. Pornography, Church policies on 196
13. Postlude and prelude music 115
14. Prayers
1. at Church activities 109
2. in Church meetings, guidelines for 146
3. sacrament 174
15. Prelude and postlude music 115
16. Presidency meetings
17. Presiding authority at Church meetings 138 174
18. Presiding councils, purposes of 10 12 16
19. Priesthood, definition of 8–9
20. Priesthood blessings
21. Priesthood executive committee, ward
22. Priesthood executive committee, stake
23. Priesthood keys
1. definition of 8–9 40 50
2. when to confer 158 175
24. Priesthood leadership meeting, stake
25. Priesthood meetings
1. adapting to local needs 60 134
2. guidelines for 46–47 57 141 149
26. Priesthood music director and pianist 114
27. Priesthood Preview 55 92–93
28. 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
29. 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
30. 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
31. 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
32. 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
33. 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
34. Privacy of members, protecting 189
35. Prolonging life 194
36. 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
37. Public affairs specialists 122
1. Quorum
1. Aaronic Priesthood, definition of 51
2. Melchizedek Priesthood, definition of 40
2. Quorum advisers, Aaronic Priesthood 53–54
3. Quorum advisers, assistant, Aaronic Priesthood 54
4. Quorum and group meetings 46–47 57 141 149
5. Quorum presidencies
6. Quotas, none for temple work 27–28
1. Recordings of music, use in Church services 115
2. Records and reports, leaders ensure accuracy of 133
3. Releasing from Church callings, guidelines for 158
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. Research studies, Church 190
9. Retention
10. Reverence
1. leaders encourage 13–14 139
2. in Primary 89 94
3. in sacrament meeting 13–14 139–40 173
1. 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
2. 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
3. Sacrament prayer
1. errors in offering 174
2. guidelines for 174
4. Safety at Church activities 109–10 135
5. Sales agents 190
6. Same-gender marriages 196
7. Satellite
1. broadcast at stake conference 142
2. and video equipment, use of Church 190
8. Scout camp 59 60–61 104
9. 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
10. Scriptures, authorized versions of 132 180–81
11. Sealing the anointing 174–75
12. Second and third Sunday priesthood and Relief Society meetings 46 67–68
13. 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
14. Security 109–10 135
15. Self-awareness groups 194
16. 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
17. Service
18. Service member groups, military, callings of 166
19. Serving areas in meetinghouses 193
20. Setting apart
1. bishops 158–59
2. officers and teachers 158
21. Sex education 196
22. Sharing time, Primary 89–93
23. Sick, administering to 174–75
24. Signs on meetinghouses 181
25. Single adult committee, stake 124 152
26. 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
27. 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
28. Single members
29. Special needs
30. Sperm donation 197
31. Sports
1. guidelines for 110
2. activities 103
3. coaches, Young Men sports teams 54
4. uniforms 104 110
32. Stake, multistake, and area activities
33. Stake Aaronic Priesthood–Young Women committee
1. members and purpose of 60 85–86 145 152
2. youth conference, planning of 105–6
34. Stake activities, Young Men and Young Women 86 145
35. Stake activities committee 105 145
36. Stake and multistake choirs 117
37. Stake auxiliary leadership meetings 145–46 152
38. Stake auxiliary presidencies 26–27 121 145–46
39. Stake bishops' welfare council meeting 152
40. Stake callings 156 159–61
41. Stake conference
1. guidelines for 142–43 151
2. music at 117
3. satellite broadcast at 142
4. when held 133
42. Stake council
1. overview of responsibilities 12 145 151
2. members of 121 145
3. welfare responsibilities 37 145
43. Stake general priesthood meeting 143 151
44. Stake high priests quorum meeting 47 144 151
45. Stake music
1. adviser 116
2. chairman 116–17
3. specialists 117
46. 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
47. Stake presidency meeting 144 151
48. Stake presidency's interviews of bishops 24 26–27 125
49. Stake presidency's meeting with bishoprics 145 151
50. Stake priesthood executive committee
1. high councilors serve on 121
2. Meetings, guidelines for 144 151
51. Stake priesthood leadership meeting 46 57 143–44 151
52. Stake Primary
53. Stake Relief Society
54. Stake single adult committee 124 152
55. Stake specialists 122
56. Stake Sunday School
57. Stake welfare specialists 37
58. Stake Young Men
59. Stake young single adult committee 125 152
60. Stake Young Women
61. Standards
1. teaching to young men 57
2. teaching to young women 81–82
62. Standards events 59 84
63. Standard works, authorized versions of 132 180–81
64. Sterilization, surgical 197
65. Stillborn children 194
66. Suicide 197
67. Sunday
1. activities on 109
2. scheduling meetings on 138
68. 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
69. 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
70. 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
71. 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
72. Surrogate motherhood 197
73. Sustaining and releasing
1. guidelines for 157–58 159–66
2. in sacrament meeting 139
74. Symposia, members' participation in 190–91
1. Talks, in sacrament meeting 139–40
2. Taxes
1. and Church activities 111 191–92
2. income 184
3. tax-exempt status 111 191–92
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. Teaching the Gospel course 31
9. 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
10. 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
11. 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
12. Temple ordinances
1. for famous people 28
2. leaders encourage members to receive 27–28
3. not discussed specifically in meetings 133
13. Temple preparation seminar 28–29 45
14. Temple recommends
1. endowed members should have 27
2. interview questions not to be altered 132
3. in young single adult stakes 129
15. Temple visits, organizing 111
16. Testimonies
1. in fast and testimony meeting 94 141
2. in Primary 94 141
17. Theatrical productions, copyright laws for 183
18. Theme
1. Mutual 58 83
2. Primary 88
3. Young Women 76
19. Transition
1. to Church membership 24–26
2. from Young Women to Relief Society 64 71–72 77
20. Travel
1. adaptations for difficulty of 134
2. in Church activities 111
21. Tuning, pianos and organs 118
1. Uniformity and adaptation
2. Uniforms for sports 104 110
3. 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
4. Unwed mothers
1. Values, Young Women 76–77
2. Vasectomy 197
3. Video and satellite equipment, use of Church 142 190
4. Video recordings, not made in meetinghouses 193
5. Viewings, guidelines for 147
6. 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
7. Visual aids or audiovisual materials, use in sacrament meeting 146 180
8. Voter registration in meetinghouses 192
1. Ward callings 157 161–64
2. Ward clerk, ward council responsibilities 16–19
3. Ward conference 133 141 149
4. 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
5. Ward meetings
6. Ward mission leader 22–27 170–71
7. Ward mission leader, assistant 22
8. Ward mission plan 18 22–27
9. Ward missionaries
1. responsibilities 23
2. activation, responsibilities for 23–24 27
3. convert retention, responsibilities for 25
10. Ward music
1. adviser 114
2. chairman 114–15 117
3. director 114–15
4. organist or pianist 114
11. Ward priesthood executive committee
1. definition of 16
2. meetings, guidelines for 16 150
3. welfare responsibilities of 36
12. Weddings, music for 118
13. 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
14. 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
15. Web sites, stake and ward 184–85
16. Witnesses, of a baptism 171
17. Word of Wisdom
1. guidelines for 194–95
2. at Church activities 103
3. obedience to 34
1. Young adults
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. Young Men, ward meetings
1. bishopric youth committee meeting 56 142 150
2. Young Men presidency meeting 56–57
6. 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
7. 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
8. Young single adult advisers 126
9. Young single adult committee
1. stake 125 152
2. ward 126 150
10. Young single adult wards and stakes 128–29
11. Young Womanhood Recognition 78 83
12. 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
13. 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
14. Young Women, class presidencies
1. calling and sustaining 78–79
2. duties of 80 82–84
3. presidency meetings 81
4. secretaries 80
15. 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
16. 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
17. 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
18. Young Women camp 84–85 104
19. Young Women in Excellence 84
20. Youth conferences
1. ward and stake 105–6
2. youth under 14, participation of 60–61 86, 108–9
21. Youth
1. interviews by bishopric 52 78
2. leaders' purposes for 14
3. speaking in sacrament meeting 139