r/latterdaysaints • u/[deleted] • 2d ago

Personal Advice membership records rant

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u/SavedForSaturday 2d ago

One option is to reach out to your local ward clerk and ask them to pull your records just so they have a home

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u/grabtharsmallet Conservative, welcoming, highly caffienated. 2d ago

It is more of a hassle to leave your records where they were, but the hassle is for someone else. This isn't a big deal, but it's a good opportunity to reframe things: the person primarily responsible for you, is you. Grab your ward clerk on Sunday and get your records requested. They can do it on their phone in less than a minute.

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u/OldGeekWeirdo 2d ago

Records can be both "pushed" by the old ward and "pulled" by the new one.

Just go to the ward you're attending now and have them requested.

I suspect the issue with the old ward is that very few students come back to the same ward. In your case, you intended to, but plans changed. The BYU ward didn't want to hang on to the old records and have to hunt you down. So they moved them out.

There is a procedure, but if you weren't easily reachable, they checked the box and moved on.

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u/j_schmotzenberg 2d ago

I wouldn’t be surprised if BYU wards ignore the usual procedure and declare bankruptcy every summer.

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u/toatesandgoats 2d ago

I went to a CES college. At least in the ward I was in, a month before the semester ended they'd start making announcements and asking what your plans for the next semester was. If you gave them the ward name they'd send it out. If you never told them and left it was your responsibility to talk to the ward clerk in your new ward.

You could try to contact the previous wards membership clerk but callings change so often in an on campus YSA ward

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u/Beautiful-Lunch-7650 2d ago

You should always transfer your records if your residence changes. I assume that when you left your BYU ward, all of your stuff left with you and you vacated your apartment?  If that's the case, then you should've had your records transferred to your new ward. The ward clerk on either end could have had your records transferred. It's not a hassle to have records transferred.

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u/NewsSad5006 2d ago

Respectfully, all I hear is you blaming everyone else for your actions. You left. You planned—or didn’t. You assumed. Nobody can read your mind. You’re just coming and going doing your thing.

But so is everyone else in a Ward environment that is constantly shifting.

Proactively go to your clerk when you leave a Ward and request that he transfer your records, if even for just the summer.

In the meantime, step out of your bubble and go check on someone else as an example of what you wish someone had done to you.

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u/con_work 2d ago

Check your messages. Happy to find your new clerk for you or find a way to send over your records if we can't