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The church has created many partners in family history. These partners allow members of the church to use their websites for free. Create your own account on ancestry.com, myheritage.com or findmypast.com (you must sign in with your FamilySearch account first...) and then compare your four generations on family search to your four generations on whichever site you chose to ensure accuracy on both sites.
This month's sprint has been accomplished when you have an account with at least one of these sites, and compared your four generations. Share your experience with your family, possibly at a family home evening or dinner.
Sign up for all 3 sites, then double-check children and siblings of your four generations against these sites. This is a great way to find missing family members.
Our appearance reflects who we are and is a great way to share the gospel. This month wear gospel related attire throughout the month (medallion, CTR Ring, Church clothes, Young Men/Young Women camp shirts etc.) Find someone who you can talk to about what you are wearing and why. Set a personal goal of how often you will wear this attire throughout the month.
This month's sprint has been accomplished when you have worn the gospel-related item as often as was your goal and have shared why with at least one person. Share your experience with your family, possibly at a family home evening or dinner.
Post a picture of you on social media wearing what you chose and then explain why it is important to you. Then invite others to do the same and be an example of good.
Missionary experiences uplift us and help us feel the spirit. Interview a relative who has served a mission or who has had missionary experiences.
Interview a relative who served a mission or who has had missionary experiences. Record their stories using audio record on the "Family Search Memories" app or in the story section of familysearch.com. Share your experience in your journal and with your family, possibly at a family home evening or dinner.
Find the FIRST person in your family who served a full-time mission and document it on Family Search in the details section under notes of the individual. You may also try to figure out whom your 'first missionary' converted and see who was able to have the gospel because of your ancestor.
The Book of Mormon is the keystone of our religion and central to many of our testimonies. Obtain a copy of The Book of Mormon, highlight a few of your favorite scriptures and write your testimony in the cover. Then EITHER give it to the missionaries to hand out or give it to a less-active or non-member friend.
This month's sprint has been accomplished when you have given your Book of Mormon to someone and then shared your experience with family or a class/quorum. Share your experience with your family, possibly at a family home evening or dinner.
Do both; give a Book of Mormon to a missionary and a friend. Hand the book to the person personally and share your testimony with them.
You are, at this moment, creating your family history. Set a goal to write in your journal for a certain period of time, at least once per week. When you write, look for and include the spiritual things that happen in your life.
This month's sprint has been accomplished when you have set a personal goal of writing in your journal at least once a week. Fulfill that goal for the month. Share your experience with your family, possibly at a family home evening or dinner.
Share one of your journal experiences with friends or family (in Family Home Evening, Church, etc.)
Social media is everywhere. This month we will help promote the gospel through social media. Post a gospel-related message (conference talk, photo of the temple, your testimony, etc.) then tag others in the message and challenge them to do the same.
This month's sprint has been accomplished when you have posted or shared something uplifting on a social media outlet or email, and challenged someone else to do the same. Share your experience with your family, possibly at a family home evening or dinner.
Support others' messages by liking it or commenting on the post.
Many of our family traits and traditions are handed down from our ancestors. This month's sprint will try to duplicate some of those traits. EITHER dress up as one of your ancestors, then take a photo aside a picture of an ancestor; OR make a video of a skit your family creates, inspired by an ancestor's story.
This month's sprint has been accomplished when you have taken a photo while dressed up as one of your ancestors OR have made a video of a skit your family created based on a story from one of your ancestors. Share your experience with your family, possibly at a family home evening or dinner.
Post your photo or video on social media.
Make a missionary's day by writing an email or letter to a missionary serving a full-time mission from your ward, stake or extended family, thanking them for their service and offering words of encouragement.
This month's sprint has been accomplished when you have written and sent one letter/email of encouragement and thanks to a missionary from your ward, stake or extended family. Share your experience with your family, possibly at a family home evening or dinner.
Write emails/letters to multiple missionaries.
This month prepare and make an old family recipe. Post the recipe to your favorite social media outlet and explain what it is. If you know where the recipe came from, consider sharing that information as well.
This month's sprint has been accomplished when you make something from a recipe of one of your ancestors, photograph and post it on social media. You may also post the recipe. If you don't have social media, email it to a friend or family member. Share your experience with your family, possibly at a family home evening or dinner.
Share the treat/meal with a friend or neighbor.
The power of prayer is real. Pray for a less-active or non-member to strive to see them as Christ sees them. Befriend them and invite them to a church activity/party or to be taught the gospel by the full-time missionaries.
This month's sprint has been accomplished when you have prayed for and invited a less-active/non-member to a church activity or to be taught by the missionaries, and have written about your experience in your journal. Share your experience with your family, possibly at a family home evening or dinner.
Instead of only praying for them, go the extra mile to be more Christ-like toward them by serving them sometime during the month.
We should be a thankful people. We should be most grateful to our ancestors and those who have gone before us. In this sprint, write a letter of gratitude to one of your living or deceased relatives. If this relative is living, consider personally delivering or reading the letter to them. If they are deceased, place the letter in your personal journal.
This month's sprint has been accomplished when you have written a letter to one of your ancestors and if they are alive, have given it to the person; or if they are deceased, you have shared the letter with your family or a friend. Share your experience with your family, possibly at a family home evening or dinner.
If you have a personal story about the ancestor, document it on Family Search. Consider doing this for multiple ancestors.
Service blesses both the individual who is serving and the individual being served. Perform a secret act of service once a week to a different individual/family. Leave a note telling what you have done and invite them to also perform a secret act of service.
This month's sprint has been accomplished when you have completed a secret act of service once per week to a different individual/family with a note inviting them to perform his/her/their own secret act of service for someone else. Share your experience with your family, possibly at a family home evening or dinner.
Consider serving someone you don't know very well.