This last Sunday at church, my son was fortunate to receive the calling to be the Deacon’s Quorum President. In the Mormon faith there is a President of the Deacon‘s Quorum and a President of the Teachers Quorum. These two presidents of quorums are usually young men. For the Deacons, it is usually a young man between 12 and 14. The Teachers Quorum President is usually between the ages of 14 and 16. The Priest Quorum is a little bit different than the rest because the President of the Priest Quorum is the Bishop. The Bishop usually calls an assistant to help organize the Quorum and he delegates a lot of the day to day happenings to this assistant. The First Assistant is usually a young man between the ages of 16 and 18.

These three priesthoods form the Aaronic Priesthood in the LDS Church. The Aaronic Priesthood is a preparatory priesthood which trains young men to be leaders, counselors and advisors. Once a young man turns 18, he then is eligible to receive the Melchizedek Priesthood.

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In last month’s LDS youth magazine the New Era there is an article about how Scouting and the Priesthood support each other. I decided to cut the magazine cover off and post it in the Aaronic Priesthood room at church. This is what it looks like.

There are a few articles in this Mormon magazine that are great for young men to read. One of the articles was about a young priesthood holder that was putting together an eagle project. The article was called “He’s Got Game”. He gathered together a bunch of youth and leaders and had them all bring a ball to an organized game of soccer. At the end of the game, he rounded up all of the balls that were donated and boxed them up to be shipped to needy kids in third world countries. I thought it was a great idea so I gave the article to my son to see if it would spark any excitement since he will be working on his Eagle Project soon.

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Last week our Stake decided to host a Duty to God Clinic. Each year in the past, the Stake provided a Merit Badge Clinic for all of the Scouts that wanted to participate. This year, our stake decided to put some focus on the DTG requirements for each of the young men in each of the Quorums in the Aaronic Priesthood. Out of all of the requirements for all three Quorums of the Aaronic Priesthood, they were able to locate similar requirements so that everyone could work on them at the same time. For the Priests, it was a section of the Duty to God that talks about visiting “the workplace of 3 occupations you are interested in.”. For the Teachers it was found in this requirement that asks the boys to, “Visit at least 3 places where people perform work you might enjoy.” And for the Deacons, it states, “Choose 2 careers you may be interested in doing someday.”

The boys were all brought together at the Stake Center and split up into 4 groups. There were two business professionals that had setup stations in the church, and two business professionals that were setup in their actual business offices. There was an Optholmologyst, Physical Therapist, Local TV Station Salesman, and a Taxidermist. Each of them talked about their careers and gave the boys a look at what it would be like to enter that profession. All of the boys had a good time and everyone that attended the clinic was able to pass of that requirement in their Duty to God books.

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