New and Returning Member Progress

Is there a way to save specific members' New and Returning Member Progress forms so that they can be updated and saved in MLS?

I've received vague direction to save these forms in MLS so that the stake can see them. I can see how you can "Auto Fill" information about a member, and type in other information, but I don't see any kind of save option. All I see is Print. Am I missing something?

nbllds wrote:All I see is Print. Am I missing something?

If you have the CutePDF "printer" installed, you can "print" to a PDF file.

But, I'm not seeing any other options.

nbllds wrote: All I see is Print. Am I missing something?

We've been told the "stake representative" will view them from time to time, but all this means in our stake is that the high council rep would ask our bishop to let him glance through the file folder kept in the bishops office...

It would be more powerful if MLS actually kept track online of these, but it doesn't.

Here it is over year later and my Ward is just getting with this program. So please tell me all out can. Also if you found a way to save and update to MLS. And is the form in Word and/or Excel

Brother F Mitchell

I would think that each line on that form, especially from the time the member is baptized on, would have an event in MLS (except maybe for the new member lessons that are taught usually immediately after baptism (same as missionary lessons in Preach My Gospel, with lesson 5 from those lessons added).

So you can probably get lists from MLS for about everything else, of who has not gone past those milestones or for any given milestone on the form. Then getting those that are in the book with those forms into a report is probably what is needed. Might it be possible to create a custom report of some type given the availability otherwise of much of the info needed?

Thank YOU
Where can I learn more? ALSO who has it in WORD or EXCEL
FG Mitchell

fgmitchell wrote:Where can I learn more?

There was an earlier thread with some additional information: New and Returning Member Progress

You can read more on lds.org under Conversion and Retention about how the form is to be used in ward councils.

fgmitchell wrote:ALSO who has it in WORD or EXCEL

I doubt that this form exists in Word or Excel. I suppose someone with the right tools could turn the PDF from the Church into a fillable PDF, but I haven't heard of anyone doing that yet for this particular form.

this site is secured but I am working on some of these issues for use in our ward...
I probably could miror it once complete for just about any ward..
you'll need a google or gmail login and I will grant permission to access after I authenticate your ID..

I need some beta testers outside of the ward..

https://sites.google.com/site/bbvtac/

OwenDWelling1 wrote:this site is secured but I am working on some of these issues for use in our ward...

I fail to see the connection between new and returning member progress, the topic discussed in this thread, and having access to a Google Groups site. Perhaps you can enlighten me.

I seem to find the same mystery about this form expressed by others. I have ordered paper forms from store.lds.org with no delivery (Stated that they were out of stock but could be located in local MLS). I am a Stake Clerk and so do not have access to ward clerk MLS. For my own purposes and for training, I have created a fillable Word document that replicates the form. However, training on the subject is either woefully lacking or difficult to locate. We are going to be training on the subject in Bishopric Training this month but I am having trouble fining much in the way of training.

aebrown wrote:I doubt that this form exists in Word or Excel. I suppose someone with the right tools could turn the PDF from the Church into a fillable PDF, but I haven't heard of anyone doing that yet for this particular form.

I know this thread is old, but it came up at the top of a Google search when I went looking for the form. Attached is a fillable PDF.

I guess there was already a version posted: https://tech.lds.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6230&p=80926

Sorry for the duplication (and triplication - if that's even a word - in this case)

Our ward is interested in getting this information in an online database. Has anyone done this yet? It would be great to be able to submit the information once and then be able to go back to it when needed. Would also be able to share it with the ward council, PEC, etc.

Thanks, Justin

justinpcrane wrote:Our ward is interested in getting this information in an online database. Has anyone done this yet?

Welcome to the forum!
I'm a nervous about taking personal information from ward members and putting it "online" because of privacy issues, data safety and "terms of use" legal issues. It's my hope that LDS.org will offer such options, such as they already do with "action and interview lists," so we don't feel the need to take the data out of the more secure environment of LDS.org. I'm excited to see what the changes in the Quarterly Report might be for 2014, (see official letter dated Dec. 15 2013) as that could easily be adapted to contain more "new and returning member" progress information to keep it fresh on our minds. It already tracks some "new member" information.

justinpcrane wrote:Our ward is interested in getting this information in an online database. Has anyone done this yet? It would be great to be able to submit the information once and then be able to go back to it when needed. Would also be able to share it with the ward council, PEC, etc.

Thanks, Justin

I too needed to go on-line with this, I believe this is a safe way to do it: https://tech.lds.org/forum/viewtopic.ph ... rt#p128407

The PDF fill-able form was very helpful. But as a clerk, I was incessantly asked to generate a ward level summary view from all the individual reports.

OwenDWelling1 wrote:this site is secured but I am working on some of these issues for use in our ward...
I probably could miror it once complete for just about any ward..
you'll need a google or gmail login and I will grant permission to access after I authenticate your ID..

I need some beta testers outside of the ward..

https://sites.google.com/site/bbvtac/

Hey I would love to see the form you made here. I'm a bishop in Nova Scotia Canada and would love to have this form online where the ward council can edit them and save them online. I requested access already through my google account, you should see it. Thanks for the help.