tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1232284755689004418.post1133462894686958842..comments2024-03-11T12:01:00.551-04:00Comments on This Member Muses: How to Make the Church's New Ward and Stake Calendaring System Absolutely Worthless!Kristahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07344163281646499679noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1232284755689004418.post-5932609712052133372012-08-26T10:54:20.778-04:002012-08-26T10:54:20.778-04:00Sorry, my ward and stake have already fully implem...Sorry, my ward and stake have already fully implemented your plan, with a few additional "helps."<br /><br />If you must call someone to the stake calling, choose the church service missionary who used to be a mechanic and who joined the church five years ago. This will ensure that anyone trying to place an item on the calendar will have to give him the announcement, on paper, or mail it in the mail. Then once a month he and his wife will go to the mission home and "update" all of the announcements, including those that happened three weeks before. (Sometimes even longer depending on mail service and whether the high councilor to your ward gave it to him the same week you gave it to the high councilor.)<br /><br />As soon as the activities for all the wards have been updated onto one calendar, along with all stake events, send out new announcements to each individual, for each new event. (Seriously I have woken up to 50+ emails in my in box, half of which involved the practice and game times for the "upcoming volleyball tournament" that had ended the week before the email was sent out .)<br /><br />By calling someone who hasn't been a member of the church for very long, you get the added benefit of a whole different set of abbreviations and word forms, as well as jargon that is not easily understandable. (BSA scouts of America will be learning about health and wellness. All young boys should make sure you bring your diet mileage books including your exercise logs. Leaders will helps boys in sorting out their caburators from their proteins.)<br /><br />Have every ward leader forward every email to everyone on their personal ward email list, to make sure everyone has them. Please do not read each email before forwarding. It isn't the quality of the emails, it's the quantity! <br /><br />Everyone NEEDS every email, so please make sure that the YM get the information that the Stake YW presidency will be meeting with the ward YW leaders to discuss the best way to prepare YW to deal with menstration during girls camp, the Laurel hike and when going to do temple baptisms. (Members of the deacons quorum presidency should get this four times; once as members, once as a youth (from the YM secretary), once as a ward youth leader (sent from Ward youth council) and once as one of the potential participants in Stake Youth Council. <br /><br />Our stake also has a fabulous way of making sure no one is ever sure who is supposed to go to Stake Youth Council. I would be happy to explain it, but I have no idea. In our ward my husband pretty much twists the arms of the young men in the presidencies until two of them yell uncle, or remember that he usually has a stash of banana bread or chocolate chip cookies. Several times he has been told he brought the wrong boys. While they could tell him who the boys should have been, they don't ever have a list for the next time.<br /><br />So many other great ideas, so little time to share....I will try to find a few emails I archived because I thought they were so funny. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13655197693521484077noreply@blogger.com