Reading in the names of the new members

[MikeWaters]

In our ward, the bishopric does this once in a while, and only about 1% of the time is it someone who is actually an active attending member.

It gets so bad, that people don't even look around when the name is read. They know it is a phantom name that has never been there, never will be there, and probably doesn't exist.

It's kind of funny and depressing at the same time.

[myboynoah]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

In our ward, the bishopric does this once in a while, and only about 1% of the time is it someone who is actually an active attending member.

It gets so bad, that people don't even look around when the name is read. They know it is a phantom name that has never been there, never will be there, and probably doesn't exist.

It's kind of funny and depressing at the same time.

I was a ward clerk. It's not well known, but in order to clean up our files, we would send our "lost" members to your ward. A lot of wards have been doing this for some time now.

I suggest your ward clerk just send them on to some other ward, maybe in the Philippines.

[MikeWaters]

I suggested to the bishopric that we do what Archaea did, have their addresses as their church office building. They didn't follow my suggestion.