When a person moves from a ward for more than three months, a clerk moves the membership record to the new ward. The top section is the transfer and the bottom section is the acknowledgment for receiving church to return.To be mailed from one church office to another. To begin the process of church membership, please complete our membership application, and return it to an elder, pastor or to the church office. This form should only be filled in after a written request for transfer has been received and the church has voted to allow the person to transfer out. The Church's online record-keeping tools, including Leader and Clerk Resources (LCR), Member Tools, and Ward Directory and Map. There is the form for "Transfer of Baptized Members" and there is the form for "Transfer of Confessing Members. If you choose to be an inactive member, that is entirely up to you, but you are still a member of the Church. No one will take that away from you. A ward is a local congregation in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), with a smaller local congregation known as a branch.