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I have been asked to do a scout training on Saturday. The training is the Venture Leader Specific Training. Last time I did this training I had 3 leaders show up. Previously, I taught this class at a local community College and only one leader showed up out of the Whole Council. This time, I had 5 leaders come to the class so I was pleased. However, we should have had many many more attend.

Here are some of the highlight of this training.

Here are the Methods of Venturing
Al Right= A – L – R – I – G – H – T
Adult Association
Leadership
Recognition
Ideals
Group Activity
High Adventure
Teaching Others

Notice, there are no uniforms listed in these methods. Uniforms aren’t that important in the lives of these young men at this point. Recognition is somewhat important but not needed as much as in the younger years of the scouting programs.

Venturing should be a program that leaders can use to prepare Aaronic Priesthood youth, specifically Priests, to go on missions.

Use the PCI (Program Capability Inventory) and the AIS, (Activity Interest Survey) to create your program and fill in your Wednesday activities.

The VLSC (Venturing Leadership Skills Course) is a great way to train your Venture Scouts (Priests) how to be good leaders.

Venture Youth should learn as follows. Read, Listen, Recite, Teach others.

I have added a new “priesthood” page to the ldsfamily.net website. I should have been a little more specific that it is all about the Aaronic Priesthood and the Scouting Program. I just felt that the Aaronic Priesthood would be too long of a title for the page. Anyway, to kick off the new page, I have decided to create a post with the starting information and links.

Here is what I’m starting with.

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On this page, I’m going to add a bunch of links and information about the Aaronic Priesthood. I’m hoping that this page will become a resource for young men leaders looking for information on how to make their Scouting Program and their Aaronic Priesthood programs function more effectively.

Duty To God – Here is a great link if you are looking at how the Duty To God program links up with Scouting. Lots of great resources for Deacons, Teachers and Priest Quorums.

Duty to God Booklets – PDF version of all of the DTG booklets.

Young Men / Young Women Dot Org This is a great website for tracking your DTG (Duty to God) and for tracking your Scout Advancement.

Aaronic Priesthood Section of LDS.org – This site has the full complement of Aaronic Priesthood references, guidebooks, and manuals. This is the official site of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

Scouting.org – Homepage for the Boy Scouts of America.

Merit Badges – This is a Wiki page that houses all of the merit badge information for Scouting.

Merit Badge Worksheets – The best section for finding Worksheets for each individual Merit Badge. Very Handy!

Scout Training Online – Do a lot of your scout training online, at your own pace, and on your own schedule.

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Last weekend my son and I went on a campout with out his Troop.  This was not a normal camp out, it was a Camporee.  A Camporee is a camp that is organized and carried out by the District.  The Falls District in the Snake River Council to be exact.  We camped at a nice little place called Frenchman’s Island near Burley.

The boys setup camp Friday night and then attended a campfire program.  While they were at the campfire, I decided to hang back and try my hand at cooking rolls in my dutch oven.  I had planned ahead by making some dough in my breadmaker.  After burning the bottom of my first batch, I decided to put more coals on the top of my dutch oven to hopefull cook from the top down.  This worked a little better but I still need to do a little fine tuning to get it right.

After the scouts returned, cooked some hotdogs, ate a few rolls, they were off to their tents.

In the morning, we were off to learn some skills from a bunch of volunteers from the Council.  They learned about knots, lashings, wildlife, campsites, building latrines, and staffs.  As I listened to some of the instruction, I thought to myself how important some of this training was.  Where else would these young men get this training?  They wouldn’t learn it in school, nor at home.  Thanksfully, the LDS church uses the Boy Scout Program as the activity arm of the priesthood.  The Aaronic Priesthood teaches gospel principles to these boys and the Boy Scouts provides the activities in which to put them in practice.  By learning about how to keep a campsite clean and how to build latrine, Andy was able to pass off one of his Duty to God requirements.  The two programs go hand in hand.