At Home Missionary? - What Is That About?

The approximately 1000 family history missionaries that serve in Salt Lake City have a variety of assignments. Most are supporting questions and problems that patrons from around the world come up with in trying to do their own genealogy/family history.

That's not so with me, I'm assigned to a somewhat unknown part of the church - recruiting and processing at home missionaries.  There are about 500 that currently serve at home (At Home Missionaries). They go through 2 months of training, about 1.5 hours per day. They then become part of the system the full time support missionaries use to take the next phone call, email, or text. These are from what is usually a very frustrated or in need patron. They are not just church members.

We need about 1000 more to handle the growth of incoming questions. Here is a link to a video I hope gets the word out. It's a good one.

                           Click the link below the photo to go to the video

http://bcove.me/fz2jof1k

At home missionaries serve 15 hours per week and need a recommendation from their

bishop and Stake President. They need basic computer skills and adequate internet and computer standards. Their schedule is flexible. They are part of a team and have ongoing training with a full time church professional employee as their leader. Most at home missionaries serve supporting either new family search, indexing, research, the wiki, family history centers, or historical records.

Inquiries can be made by calling 1-800-453-3860 Ext 2-0850 or by email to mission@familysearch.org



Serve A Part Time Mission From Home? Really?

Yes, and are you ever needed. 

The church has a mission zone that supports questions from patrons world wide. This is an actual missionary calling, interviews, calling letter, and badge. After two months of training the at home missionary serves 15 hours per week at home. The at home missionary is called for at least one year. At home missionaries serve answering important questions on doing family history. These come by email, phone calls, or text messages.

There are currently over 500 at home missionaries and family history needs at least 1000 more. When you inquire our department matches your skills and interests with the needs of family history. We place and train people in their department.

Our biggest need is new family search. That will become family tree. We also assign people to the wiki, family history centers, indexing support, online film ordering, and family history research.

I've felt a  lot of emotion at times, realizing the blessing an at home mission call can be to a member or family. I almost cried at the excitement of a mother when she realized we were placing her son as an actual missionary. A similar emotion was felt when a sister wheel chair bound realized she was going to be able to provide meaningful service.

If you want to explore this opportunity call 1-800-453-3860 ext 2-0850 or email: mission@familysearch.org

Sister Whitney Horning



I highly recommend this video of Sister Horning. It tells more in a few minutes than I could in an hour. Sister Horning Tells Her Story

For our friends and patrons who are not members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, you can give back in many ways too. Serving in a local family history center is one example. The biggest need is in idexing the 1940 Census.  That project starts the 1st week of April. The data will be easy to read and index. The results will be posted free of charge on FamilySearch.org. You can sign up now by going to 1940 Census website

There is also a new iPad ap in the Ap Store.