Officers Sustained

[drepouille]

Apologies if this has been noted elsewhere.

I have noticed that MLS uses full names for the Officers Sustained report, whereas the web site uses preferred names. This was noted when I asked stake council members to review the report I had captured from the web site.
https://www.lds.org/mls/mbr/form/office ... d?lang=eng

In my opinion, neither full names nor preferred names are appropriate for this report. However, there is no way in MLS to capture each member's preference for a formal name. Some prefer "John Q. Doe" while others prefer "J. Quincy Doe".

There no perfectly automated solution, so we will probably always have to manually edit this report.

[jeromer7]

Yep, been that way for a long time. I always edit the stake conference list to follow your suggested format. I urge unit clerks to do the same for ward/branch conference, but most just print it with the full names MLS plugs in.

[lajackson]

The officers sustained form says that a member of the stake presidency or an assigned high councilor is to present the full names of officers for sustaining.

So, we use the full names.

[davesudweeks]

This came up when I was Ward Clerk. My suggestion to the Bishop was to follow the example in General Conference. The question never came up again...