Certificates of Advancement

It would be very helpful to have Certificates of Advancement available online to fill out for Primary and Young Women advancement. These forms currently exist as hard copies, but to fill them out you need to get a typewriter or manually fill them out.

The certificates available for Priesthood ordinances are great for Baptisms, Baby Blessings, and Priesthood office ordinations are great to be able to print out and distribute, but similar online forms for Primary and Young Women advancement are sadly lacking.

It would be nice to be able to fill these out for the Bishop to sign and give to kids as they graduate from Primary and Young Women as they advance.

If there is some other means to get these forms online to fill out, please let me know. I haven't been able to find anything besides the hard copies we can get from the distribution center.

I just create a template using a word processing program to print on top of any fill-in pre-printed forms. If you are fortunate someone may have already done that for these certificates and will post them here.

You can find a Primary Advancement certificate template on the wiki at Other certificates; if other templates are available, it would be nice to post them on the wiki, too -- that's a more reliable place than this forum.

Thank-you very much for both suggestions. Both very helpful, I'll check out the wiki.

aebrown wrote:You can find a Primary Advancement certificate template on the wiki at Other certificates; if other templates are available, it would be nice to post them on the wiki, too -- that's a more reliable place than this forum.

The document in that link is blank except for a line that says wardname ward and then one that says stake name. Someone might want to take a look and fix or replace it.

c19dx wrote:

aebrown wrote:You can find a Primary Advancement certificate template on the wiki at Other certificates; if other templates are available, it would be nice to post them on the wiki, too -- that's a more reliable place than this forum.

The document in that link is blank except for a line that says wardname ward and then one that says stake name. Someone might want to take a look and fix or replace it.

I don't think there's anything that needs to be fixed -- that template is intended to allow you print on the preprinted Primary Certificate of Advancement. Note that in addition to the ward and stake name fields there are also replaceable fields for the person's name and the date.

"I don't think there's anything that needs to be fixed -- that template is intended to allow you print on the preprinted Primary Certificate of Advancement. Note that in addition to the ward and stake name fields there are also replaceable fields for the person's name and the date."

I clinked on the link for

Primary Certificate of Advancement
http://store.lds.org/webapp/wcs/stores/ ... -1__195585

and you can't order any in ENGLISH. You can order them in every language except english. Where can I order some Primary Certificate of Advancement in english?

josephseamons wrote:and you can't order any in ENGLISH. You can order them in every language except English. Where can I order some Primary Certificate of Advancement in English?

Interesting sure enough English is not listed as one of the available languages, it was a couple of months ago. I would suggest calling distribution and talk to them.

church distribution is telling the primary presidents in my stake the primary advancement certificate is not available but clerks can print one. the only thing I have found is the word doc on the wiki at "https://tech.lds.org/wiki/Certificates# ... rtificates" which seems to only have ward and stake fields. Is there any better resource?

I have been trying to order them from LDS store as well. I have only found them NOT in English so I have sent them a message inquiring about this. I have tried saving the image from the LDS store of the Certificate but it was not very pretty. I to would like to have a download that we could enter the Childs name, print it out and have the Bishop and Primary President sign it.

We are not able to order or find these certificates either. The distribution center says they are now in MLS, but I can't find them under certificates. Does anyone know what the status is on these?

My primary president was told the same thing by Distribution, that those certificates are now printed from MLS. My ward clerk and I were unable to find anything in MLS about the primary certificates. Anyone know anything more about this? The online LDS store does not have the certificates available for order in English. Thanks

Any news on this issue? I've been looking all over for these certificates without any luck.

As a new Young Women's president, it would be nice if I could have access to advancement certificates immediately rather than having to order them through distribution.

mjnorthfamily wrote:As a new Young Women's president, it would be nice if I could have access to advancement certificates immediately rather than having to order them through distribution.

All you need to do is order enough for the year and put them in the YW's closet, then they can be immediately accessed.

I worked on a Word template tonight and hope this is useful if people are still looking for a printable version of the YW advancement certificate. I used the Beehive one for testing and hope they're all the same. I'm not an expert but wanted to share my efforts.

Thank you very much! This is exactly what I needed. I don't have the certificates at home with me to test, but I'll stop by the chapel tomorrow to grab one for each class.

I was told the same when I contacted Distribution. However, upon further inspection the hard copy Primary Advancement Certificates are still available in store.lds.org. You just need to look under the unit materials tab at the bottom of the screen. Then when you expand the stake/ward tab to view all there will be a tab titled reports, forms, and certificates. The Primary Advancement Certificates can be found there. I still haven't found the versions that is suppose to be available through MLS though.

jlayton1225 wrote:I still haven't found the versions that is suppose to be available through MLS though.

It's in there. If you can't get to it (Reports/Forms > Certificates), there is something wonky with your MLS installation.

This topic is conflating Primary Advancement Certificates and Young Women Advancement Certificates. To be clear:

Primary Advancement Certificates can be printed from MLS under the Reports/Forms > Certificates menu, but have been discontinued from the LDS Store.

Young Women Advancement Certificates can be purchased from the LDS Store, but can't be printed in MLS (that I've been able to see).

For those that may find this topic after searching: I think certificates are now printable from LCR. Based on the 3.2 Release notes:

https://www.lds.org/help/support/clerk- ... ng=eng#3.2

Added the ability to generate and print certificates for the following events: child blessing, baptism and confirmation, Primary advancement, deacon ordination, teacher ordination, priest ordination, elder ordination, and high priest ordination.