Please make an appointment, invite a friend, and attend the temple any time that day. If you wish to attend a session with other members of the ward, please meet in the chapel for the 6:30 p.m. endowment session.
RootsTech 2026 just concluded over the weekend. But most of the presentations and classes are recorded and available online.
We encourage you to browse through the various classes and to watch those you are interested in.
(Including Suggested Activities in Support of Each Initiative)
Revised October 28, 2025
1. Encourage each adult and youth member to strive to hold a current temple recommend and worship in the temple as often as circumstances permit.
o Encourage each adult member to always have their next temple appointment scheduled.
o Young Men and Young Women leaders will help facilitate the regular scheduling of appointments for baptisms at the temple for the youth. The Temple and Family History Committee will be notified of these appointments and will be available to provide assistance and support.
o Encourage ward members to become familiar with and to use “Ordinance Ready” to take family names to the temple.
o Ministering brothers and sisters will encourage their families in these matters. Relief Society and Elders Quorum leaders will incorporate temple and family history encouragement into ministering interviews and organizational meetings.
o Hold regularly scheduled “Ward Temple Days”. Once each year, the ward will hold a Farmington 10th Ward Temple and Family History Day, e.g., a “Day in Heaven”. Such an event could be the culmination of related efforts at the end of the calendar year or other 12-month period. Members will be encouraged to participate in multiple ordinances and spend as much time in the temple as possible on that day, as individual circumstances allow. Those who are not able to participate in temple ordinances on a Ward Temple Day or Day in Heaven will be encouraged to engage, instead, in family history or indexing activities that day, again as individual circumstances allow.
2. Encourage each member to have an active Family Search account, to have at least four generations entered into their tree, to regularly contribute to their family tree, and to actively use the various family history apps developed by the Church, including Family Tree, Get Involved, Memories, etc.
o The Ward Council will consider and select recent general conference talks that relate to temple or family history work. The selected talks will be the focus of quarterly Relief Society, Elders Quorum, Young Women, and Young Men instruction and activities, as appropriate. (Further, these selected talks could also be the subject of a 5th Sunday meeting, as directed by the Bishop.) The Relief Society and Elder’s Quorum will also consider temple and family history as a possible counseling topic at the beginning of the respective meetings. Quorum and class instruction should also occasionally include a demonstration of how to use features of the Church-endorsed family history apps.
o Survey periodically all members of the Relief Society and Elders Quorum to determine in what areas they may want family history assistance and/or to receive one-on-one visits by a family history consultant.
o Encourage the appropriate training and designation of selected members to serve as family history consultants (to other ward members).
3. Teach members that the purpose of the endowment is to prepare for exaltation, not merely to prepare for a mission, marriage, etc. Encourage this concept to be taught in our homes and in temple preparation courses.
4. Encourage and invite adult members to consider becoming temple workers.
5. Encourage every member to learn a new family history story each year.
o Encourage each family unit to document the origins of their conversion to the Gospel and include this information in their written personal/family history, and possibly in Memories on the Family Search website.
o Include such family unit-specific history summaries in a “Temple & Family History Corner” of the “Ward Bulletin”/newsletter and/or website.
6. Develop and conduct an “extraction” initiative.
o Involve all organizations within the Ward in the initiative.
o Integrate “extraction” into the other components of this Plan, as appropriate.
These are videos and audio files that have been captured by our youth with some of our members. These are stories and memories that we all need to have in our lives. Get to know the members of our ward.
Nola Neilsen - Audio file, 33 Minutes
Alane Stephens - Audio file, 21 Minutes
Susan Kooring - Audio file, 31 Minutes
Gloria Prats - Audio file, 51 Minutes
Annett Tidwell - Audio file, 50 Minutes
President and Sister Rogers - Audio File, 58 Minutes