Electronic Area Book App Access for Ward mission leaders

First off I'm pretty new to this forum and a recently called ward mission leader. I know that several missions area using electronic area books on iPads. My question is: can ward mission leaders get the app even if the full time missionaries don't yet have ipads? I really want to do everything electronically and am struggling with 3rd party solutions.

Thanks, any direction is greatly appreciated!

Unfortunately the app isn't publicly available anywhere. Even in areas where missionaries use iPad area books, the mission leaders in those areas do not have access to the app. They only have access to the progress record on Leader and Clerk Resources (Leader.LDS.org). I'm sure there will be more integrated solutions coming for ward mission leaders eventually!

Any progress in integrating ward mission with full time missionaries?

any progress here? It would help ward mission leaders a TON if we could see and post on area book

The Missionary Progress Record is available to the ward council in both the LDS Tools app and in LCR here:
https://lcr.lds.org/report/progress-record

The New Member Report is available in LDS Tools and in LCR here:
https://lcr.lds.org/report/new-member

So in the Electronic Progress Record when you look at an Individual Person's page there is a section called Help Needed.
How does one enter in information in that section?

Henry.Peterson wrote:So in the Electronic Progress Record when you look at an Individual Person's page there is a section called Help Needed.
How does one enter in information in that section?

I believe only the full time missionaries are able to enter that information.

davesudweeks wrote:

Henry.Peterson wrote:So in the Electronic Progress Record when you look at an Individual Person's page there is a section called Help Needed.
How does one enter in information in that section?

I believe only the full time missionaries are able to enter that information.

I see, currently the missionaries in my ward don't know how to enter that info in and we're trying use less paper and use the app's reports instead.
Any knowledge in how they can enter in information?

They will probably have to get instructions from the mission office. I don't think anyone at the ward level has access to that apps that the church loads on missionary phones or tablets.

I figured it out. Since, I live in a country with strict data privacy laws they cannot use that function as it breaks the law apparently
Thanks for you're help!

I heard from the missionaries that the ward mission leaders now have access to the mission area book for their area. I have been been asking for this for a while Can anyone confirm or deny? I have looked through my reports as ward mission leader and cannot see it.

I'm trying to figure out how to help our ward's mission leader to get access to the area book as well. When he tries to enter the page, it says access denied.

Just to make sure we're all on the same page: when you say Area Book, are you actually referring to the "Missionary Progress Record" which was linked in a previous post? Or are you referring to the actual online Area Book that missionaries use?

I admit I'm a bit of an old-timer so I don't know what (if any) difference there is between the "Missionary Progress Record" and the "Area Book" from a ward leader point-of-view. At least we didn't have to use rock and chisel to record our info back when I was a missionary (we had moved to parchment and quill pens by then...)

Not sure if you have found your answer yet, but here is the link you can follow to access the Area Book. https://areabook.churchofjesuschrist.org/
You have full access to the people your missionaries are teaching.

I do have a few suggestions for the area book to even better help WML in the work.

• Link missionary planned lessons to a calendar platform (Google, Apple, etc)
• Allow for reporting off the platform. (I would love to see who is teaching with the missionaries to not over burden the 'gung ho' members
• Allow members to "sign-up" for lessons in a calendar type platform (this would help ward involvement significantly)

Don't think anyone at church development in Riverton looks at this, but maybe they will. Hopefully this helps.

There is a large hole in the ward mission regarding inactive/lost members of our wards. There are good resources tracking the covenant path for new members but absolutely no tools for inactive/returning members. It feels to me that the pool of inactive members is so much larger than that of new members, so we would need similar tools for keeping track of contacts with these members. Is there a process for requesting the church create such a tool?

jm856 wrote: Thu Mar 21, 2024 6:13 am Is there a process for requesting the church create such a tool?

There is the feedback link found at the bottom of most Church website pages. Due to the high volume of feedback messages there is seldom any response other than an automated receipt acknowledgement. Requests can also be passed up through the priesthood chain. Explain the suggestion to you bishop. He then passes it yo your stake president. He then passes it to the area authority and so on up the chain.