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Sacrament meeting

8 guides

• Plan your first Sunday8 minFrom a new account to a program your ward can open on their phones, with a guide that walks you through the planner in four short steps.
• Ward businessCapture releases, sustainings and ordinances once, put them on a Sunday, and the conducting script reads them word for word.
• The bulletinAdd an announcement once and it goes on the ward's public Announcements page and the printed program, on its day when it has an event date. The bishopric can feature one at the top of Announcements. It stops showing after its last day. Organization leaders can post their own.
• Read announcements aloudMark an announcement to be read aloud, choose what is read each Sunday, word the sentence said before them, word how each one is read, and reword one for a single Sunday. The conducting script reads them where the Announcements block sits.
• The program your ward opensWhat publishing shares, what the ward's link opens and when, what the ward's home and each of its screens show, how to print the folded program, what a Sunday with no meeting shows, what stays off the public page, and how often the page is opened.
• Plan your organization's programHow an organization plans its own program on its own day, keeps its own templates and saved blocks, publishes it, chooses whether the ward gets a link, prints it, and who else can see it.
• Shape your Sunday programsChange the programs new Sundays start with, set how many talks each kind of Sunday plans for, keep blocks to reuse, and add, move, reword or remove blocks on one Sunday. Includes how a template change reaches Sundays already planned.
• Plan a baptismPlan a baptismal service's program from your ward's Baptism program, fill in its talks and music, publish it with its own link and folded program, and find where its interviews, its announcement and the confirmation are handled.

Getting set up

8 guides

• Set up your ward15 minWhat to set up first, what can wait, who can sign in, and where the rest of Settings lives.
• Your first day in 1stHour5 minFor each role, where 1stHour opens when you sign in, the tabs you get, the first things to do, and how to sign out. What Today shows, and how to put 1stHour on your Home Screen.
• Who can see whatWhich role to give each person who signs in, what each role can see and do, how to change a role, and what anyone with the program link sees without signing in.
• Choose your bottom bar2 minWhat the bar at the bottom of your phone holds, what More opens, and how to choose and order your own tabs.
• See what's new1 minWhat the What's new line means, how to read the notes and earlier updates, and how to put the line away.
• Get notifications3 minWho can get notifications, how to turn them on for each phone or computer, what each one says, the iPhone Home Screen step, and why one might not arrive.
• Fix sign-in problemsWhat to do when the sign-in code doesn't arrive, your sign-in expires, 1stHour says your account can no longer open the ward, the invitation never came or has expired, or one email serves in two wards.
• Find what's missingWhy a module, a tab, the Help button, Notifications or a Settings row might be missing for you, what works without signal, and where to find help, the version and Send feedback.

People

4 guides

• Your ward list10 minAdd or import your ward list, keep each person's talks, prayers and anything else you track, and rename someone once so every page follows.
• Move members in or out10 minRead LCR's Members Moved Out and Members Moved In reports into People, mark who left as moved out, add who arrived, and start their welcomes.
• Welcome a householdEach household that moves in gets one welcome: a first contact, then the steps on your ward's checklist, each an assignment for a bishopric member or an organization.
• Walk alongside someoneSet up your ward's paths (a new member, returning to activity, a new young man or young woman), start one with a person from their card, and follow each step until the path ends.

Callings

1 guide

• A calling, start to finishOne calling's whole life: names, the interview, the release it causes, the sustaining, setting apart and the clerk, with nothing to remember between steps.

Meetings

1 guide

• The bishopric meetingWhat the weekly agenda pulls in on its own, taking minutes, turning a line into an assignment, appointment, business or calling step, and closing the loop next week. Ward council and other meetings work the same way.

Appointments

9 guides

• Schedule an appointment2 minBook an appointment with someone at a time that fits, or send them a link with a few times to pick from, then move or cancel it, and know what the member gets each way.
• Find your way around AppointmentsWhat This week, To schedule, On the books and Coming due each show, how to fill an open time from Coming due, and what the tags and status lines on an appointment mean.
• Set when you're available5 minSet each interviewer's appointment windows, where they meet, the gap between appointments and how many fit in one window, and keep the ward's list of appointment types and their lengths.
• Connect Google CalendarConnect an interviewer's Google Calendar so busy times aren't offered and appointments go onto it, then link appointments already on it, one at a time or several at once, and set aside the events that aren't appointments.
• The morning schedule email2 minWho gets the morning schedule email, what it shows, and how to turn it off for yourself or for the whole ward.
• Let members book a timeOne link the ward shares where members pick a time with the bishopric, taken from each interviewer's own availability and Google Calendar.
• Youth appointmentsSee every youth's year at a glance and when each is due again, divide the youth among the bishopric, book the next one from a chip, and record one that already happened.
• The bishop's listKeep a private list of people the bishop wants to meet with, once, as needed or on a schedule, book them the usual way, and see who needs a time.
• Interviews for a baptismAsk the bishopric to set up a baptism's interviews from the baptism itself, see where each one stands, remind the bishopric, and, for the bishopric, schedule or close each one from To schedule.

Assignments

3 guides

• Who owes whatEvery follow-up from every part of 1stHour in one place, with an owner and a date, and nothing left sitting unowned.
• Recommend renewals5 minBring LCR's temple recommend status report into Assignments, share out the names, and send each person a message, a follow-up and a final note on a schedule until their interview is booked.
• Send a messageMessage on a speaker, a prayer or a recommend renewal fills a template in for that person, so you can share it, copy it or open it in your texts, email or WhatsApp. The bishopric keeps the templates in Settings.

Recurring rhythms

1 guide

• The ward's yearWard conference, temple night, the Christmas program, the campout. Give each one a date, a lead and its jobs, and next year it comes back with what you learned.

Activities

1 guide

• Propose an activityAn organization asks for an activity with its day, place and an estimated cost. The bishop or a counselor approves it, changes it, sends it back or declines it.

Signups

2 guides

• Run missionary mealsMark the nights the missionaries need dinner, share one link with the ward, and see who signed up. Members never see who took a night.
• Make a sign-up listMake a list of spots (dishes to bring, days to cover, shifts to fill), share its link, and see who signed up. 1stHour keeps only names.

Assistant

2 guides

• The AssistantTurn the Assistant on, then let it fill in a bulletin item, find actions in the minutes, start your template from your printed program and answer "How do I…" questions. Nothing saves until you tap.
• Connect an AI appThe bishopric turns on AI apps, agrees to what it means, and connects their AI app. It can then read your coming Sundays, the program, the bulletin, your assignments and activities. It changes nothing.