Weekly Training- February 2, 2015

Weekly Training Meeting

February 3, 2015

Announcements:

• Missionaries need help getting to class on pick up. Floating teacher and ZRs should help out.
• Model of the new MTC rooms at west campus.. we will be taking a district down there.

Follow up:

How have you seen your prayers, church, or BOM change since focusing on quality instead of quantity?

Revelation Through Prayer

How it connects to the Missionary Purpose

Without your blue book, what do you believe the objective is for Revelation Through Prayer?

Open your blue book and see what the objective it, compare. 

Objective:  Help missionaries learn that prayer is essential for conversion and how to invite others to pray early and often so that they may receive personal revelation. 

What are key phrases that investigators use?

Read:

See if you can find evidences of the DOC in this prayer. That it is leading towards conversion or evidence of it.

Ether 2:18-22

 18 And it came to pass that the brother of Jared cried unto the Lord, saying: O Lord, I have performed the work which thou hast commanded me, and I have made the barges according as thou hast directed me.

 19 And behold, O Lord, in them there is no light; whither shall we steer? And also we shall perish, for in them we cannot breathe, save it is the air which is in them; therefore we shall perish.

 20 And the Lord said unto the brother of Jared: Behold, thou shalt make a hole in the top, and also in the bottom; and when thou shalt suffer for air thou shalt unstop the hole and receive air. And if it be so that the water come in upon thee, behold, ye shall stop the hole, that ye may not perish in the flood.

 21 And it came to pass that the brother of Jared did so, according as the Lord had commanded.

 22 And he cried again unto the Lord saying: O Lord, behold I have done even as thou hast commanded me; and I have prepared the vessels for my people, and behold there is no light in them. Behold, O Lord, wilt thou suffer that we shall cross this great water in darkness?

Ether 3:2-5

 2 O Lord, thou hast said that we must be encompassed about by the floods. Now behold, O Lord, and do not be angry with thy servant because of his weakness before thee; for we know that thou art holy and dwellest in the heavens, and that we are unworthy before thee; because of the fall our natures have become evil continually; nevertheless, O Lord, thou hast given us a commandment that we must call upon thee, that from thee we may receive according to our desires.

 3 Behold, O Lord, thou hast smitten us because of our iniquity, and hast driven us forth, and for these many years we have been in the wilderness; nevertheless, thou hast been merciful unto us. O Lord, look upon me in pity, and turn away thine anger from this thy people, and suffer not that they shall go forth across this raging deep in darkness; but behold these things which I have molten out of the rock.

 4 And I know, O Lord, that thou hast all power, and can do whatsoever thou wilt for the benefit of man; therefore touch these stones, O Lord, with thy finger, and prepare them that they may shine forth in darkness; and they shall shine forth unto us in the vessels which we have prepared, that we may have light while we shall cross the sea.

 5 Behold, O Lord, thou canst do this. We know that thou art able to show forth great power, which looks small unto the understanding of men.

What are we learning about prayer from the Brother of Jared?

Define will- align your thoughts with God

What kind of phrases do we say every day that are part of mormon culture?

We need prayers that are not habit forming but faith promoting.

Invitation:

Find an opportunity or help someone else benefit from how you learned to pray/what you learned about prayer today?

We will talk about your experiences next week

Training Meeting- November 20, 2014

Weekly Training Meeting

November 20, 2014

Announcements:

• In Field will be on week 3 for 3 week missionaries
• Keep your in class computers on
• No Zone Meeting or Training Meeting next week

Group Study:

Get in a group of 3

• Each person study either doctrine, principles or applications in Increase In Learning
• You must find something that is new and different
• Discuss in your groups what you have learned

Questions to Think About

Why does true doctrine, understood, change attitudes and behaviors?

Why doctrine did Nephi understand that got him from the God Head speaking to him to him speaking as angels to others?

What attitudes and behaviors (applications) changed in Nephi that you see?

Consider what false doctrines do I understand that change my behaviors.

What relationship do your missionaries have with false doctrine?

Missionaries are thinking that they need to teach the gospel… TEACHING is not a part of the missionary purpose.

PG 31 in PMG under the purpose in the red box.. As you teach...

What would you hear in missionary planning or studying to help 

Training Meeting- November 13, 2014

Weekly Training Meeting

November 13, 2014

Announcements:

• PI- Daryl is wanting to help out with things. He wants the PI to be a motivation to learn in the classroom. So we are going to give less feedback after… don’t give feedback every time. Most of your feedback is coming through your role as a PI. 
• The week of Thanksgiving, Friday classes are on Tuesday for BYU Student
• Infield we be on Friday for Thanksgiving week.
• Holiday subs- Christmas subs need to be completed by Dec 1st

Ask, Seek, Knock

BD: Revelation

2 Nephi 31, 32, 33 are all the same discourse 

How can we learn how to receive and to give what we’ve received?

2 Nephi 31:10-12,14,15,20

Look at each person individually and find what the message was that they were speaking to Nephi. 

What is Nephi teaching you? Look at every time he is saying wherefore… what he knows, says, and wants to do

2 Nephi 31:4-end of chapter

Discuss what you are seeing and feeling with these two diagrams 

2 Nephi 32:1-5

Consider the angels he is talking about- the ones who speak

Nephi is speaking like unto them

What is he doing to speak like unto angels?

God is creating messengers from God- we also want to be messengers. If we feast upon the words of Christ then we are given the gift of being able to speak like angels

Look at your 3 hard goals- look at what the father has spoken to you, evidences of what you have done, and what are you teaching the classroom by the power of the HG and angels because you have gone through step one and two. 

If you haven’t gotten to that point then find what you need to do to get through that point. 

Invitation:

Go from step one to two to three

Training Meeting- October 16, 2014

Weekly Training Meeting

October 16, 2014

Announcements:

The Teachers Role When Missionaries Struggle- Powerpoint

Think:

What builds character?

(Class Insight)

• Trying situations
• obstacles
• positive attitudes
• atonement
• perseverance
• patience
• diligence
• understanding of purpose
• people who love you
• being tested in weakest spots
• acting, not acted upon
• sleep 
• not blaming people
• discipline
• commitment
• small daily decisions
• consistency
• BOM
• humility
• work 
• integrity
• K,U,I
• generosity
• outwardness
• assertive
• involvement
• forgiveness and being forgiven
• sense of humor
• confidence
• faith
• grain of salt or grain assault 
• happiness

Pick one of these things that you need to incorporate into your life in order to improve your character

Use this word, relate it to things that you have gotten from conference talks that you have already learned and are ready to start applying. 

Integrity- pleasing God before pleasing man

how can I be more integrous to God and please him more in my life before I try to please other people

Invitation:

Continue studying conference talks

Training Meeting- October 2, 2014

Weekly Training Meeting

October 2, 2014

Announcements: 

• If you see Zone Leaders and Training Sisters with cell phones it’s ok.. they are piloting something new
• Sally will be sending out Winter Sign Up sheet tomorrow at 12:00pm

Thought on General Conference

• 3 Nephi 12- What is the first Blessed ye that Christ gives?
• What are things that have impacted the way that you lived from last conference that you can remember now?
• What does it mean to give strict heed to the council of the apostles and prophets?
• Prepare yourselves physically and spiritually for General Conference this weekend.

Discuss what you do to motivate your missionaries to learn.

Study:

Elder Bednar calls the Holy Ghost the Fueler of learning. We have to be able to understand what spirit is influencing the missionaries to learn or not learn.

Go to pg 59 (E. Bednar’s book)

as we integrate the teachings…

What are the 4 major ways that the gift of decrement operates?

Talk about these 4 principles as they relate to your classroom. 

What are conclusions/ questions that you have about this. 

pg 41

The Liahonna as a type an shadow for our day….

Read:

Moroni 7- think of it as how Moroni is talking to the best of the best

While reading think of the following questions: What needs to change in my moral character in order for me to discern when true learning is happening or not happening?

What are personal conclusions you came to and group conclusions?

Scriptures that stood out to you that will change the way you live or help your learners?

Throughout my day I want to constantly ask myself the question why am I doing what I’m doing

Charity is closely connected to the gift of discernment

Charity is a motivating source in our life, but our charity needs to be turned toward God

Learning is divine, we need to be able to see with divine eyes to discern

Separate people from their behavior and learn to love them. People are not their behavior. 

Invitation:

What 3 things do I need to stop or start seeing, hearing, thinking, or doing that will purify me to see my learners more clearly?

Training Meeting- September 25, 2014

Weekly Training

September 25, 2014

Announcements:

• Winter Semester- google doc for winter assignments will come out on October 3rd. Be sure to sign up for a schedule/shift that you would like
• Keep in mind that for Winter Semester we will be doing things a little differently. Tuesday Nights 6:00pm-9:00pm we will have weekly training, zone meeting, and companionship meeting.

How were your experience at the education in zion exhibit? 

(Class Insight)

• Learning secular knowledge is the way you can show your love and respect to God
• Staircase- everything has to do with agency, each step you are choosing to put your foot forward, in the spiral staircase you can’t see in front of you (the top), Light shines down on the staircase.
• I am like the guardrail- always there for when they need me but I am not the main event
• Learning is very important to God

Going against the system. Abandoning decades of habit. 

What have been your habits of learning? Your system?

What should your system look like?

Dead Poet’s society clips… go look those up yourselves :)

Study:

Reflect on the videos

Read Elder Bednar’s book- from the beginning until page 17

Joseph Smith History

Think of people in history that went against the system

Training Meeting- September 11, 2014

Weekly Training Meeting

September 11, 2014

Announcements:

Go over Stewardship/Policies document, sign it, turn it in to Brooke. 

Show Brooke your Temple Recommend. 

Group Study:

Effective questions that you would ask someone if you wanted to know important things about their life.

(Class Insight)

What things (events, knowledge…) have made the greatest impact on your life?

What are some of your long and short term goals?

what do you want out of life?

What are your fears?

How do you get through challenging things?

What motivates you to improve?

What is lacking in your life currently?

Who is your biggest role model and why?

How has your family affected who you are today?

What does your family mean to you?

Pink flamingo or zebra?

What is your heart aching for?

What do you hope to have accomplished in 10 years?

What role has religion played in your life?

What are you passionate about?

What do you love about life?

What is your favorite thing about life and why?

What do you want more of in your life?

What are you proud of? Ashamed of?

What’s important to you?

What fulfills you?

What do you aspire to be?

What are your greatest desire?

What is hard about your life?

What makes you happy and why?

What is hard about your life?

Would you answer any question I ask?

Why do you do what you do everyday?

Describe your perfect day…

What do you yearn for in life?

Now go talk to someone (a teacher) you don’t know very well and get to know them with these questions.

Purpose for this activity:

What kind of environment do we need to create for each other and ourselves at the MTC?

Read Moroni 6:5

What was your experience like when talking about real things with each others?

(Class Insight)

• You find out so much more about each other. Gain more respect for people, want to be their friend, and help them. I now want to make an effort to be their friend. 
• It increases your investment. 
• D&C 50- it feels great to talk on a real level
• By asking these questions I was doing a lot of self reflection and the spirit was felt to help us along
• Our opportunities to minister would be so much greater if we could get to know people on a more personal level.

What keeps us from getting to know the welfare of others souls or exposing ours?

(Class Insight)

• time
• being vulnerable
• When i know the conversation is going to be ‘surface’ then i don’t want to have it because I know it doesn’t really matter. Having a conversation like this I would want to have.
• A lot of times we are afraid to putting people in an uncomfortable situation
• I felt like I started to see the other person the way that God sees us. In our normal world we don’t do that. 
• It’s outside of the social norm and it weirds some people out
• We need to increase in our love and charity
• Going into the conversation it wasn’t give and take. We both went into it willing to give. When it comes to Christ he expects us to give and he is also giving. 
• Never let someone you love come above something you need to get done. 

If we can’t discuss the welfare of our souls, how are we supposed to show it to our missionaries who need to help their investigators.

We all need to be vulnerable enough to discuss the welfare of our souls. 

Video of Ken Robinson about teachers- Not sure where this is? Ask Brooke

Teachers are the lifeboat of the success of schools

Mentor stimulate provoke engage- what teachers do

How do we have standardized tests in the MTC- missionaries think PI is like their standardized test

Elder Bednar said that if we always do what we’ve always done we will always get what we’ve always got.

We are behind in the hastening of the work. 

What have we always done?

• Missionaries sit in desks
• Stay in one room for class. Undecorated. 
• 3 hour classes
• start with song prayer and purpose
• missionaries listen to teacher
• Stress freaking management
• teacher evaluations
• follow the blue book
• showing videos
• teach fundamental that’s on the schedule
• practice last
• True learning is assumed through outward comments
• created comfortable environments by getting to know missionaries
• insights-revelation
• schedule (fundamentals, lessons…)

Can any of these things be changed as we go throughout the semester and learn about learning.

What are we going to do to change?

Throughout the remainder of my life, I will seek to learn by what I hear, see, and feel. I will write down the important things I learn, and I will do them. 

- Richard G. Scott

True learning always involves recording, seeing, hearing and feeling.

Questions you have about learning in general?

• what do teachers do that makes it so learners are no longer agents in their own learning?
• What do they do that help missionaries be agents?
• How do I create desire?
• What helps learners get excited and invested in the learning experience?
• How do I really facilitate learning? 
• What is the ideal internal result of the ‘learning’ for the learner?
• What contributes to helping excite, awake, and desire for learning and seeking?
• How can we help missionaries rejoice in learning?
• What does it really look like to have missionaries create learning experience?
• What can be done to customize learning for 6-12 missionaries who have different desires/needs/spirituality?
• How do you do all of this for 10 completely different people?
• How do you spark creativity and maintain unity? (so no one gets left behind)
• How can I help enable a learners ability to create (their creativity) by still accomplishing the objectives?
• Why do learners become bored?
• What is learning?
• Can learning be taught or is it just “caught”?
• What principles govern true learning?
• What role does agency play in learning?
• How does my learning impact my teaching/the learning of others?
• How do we ensure missionaries to not only understand but apply their purpose?
• How can I get to a point where I feel comfortable and it’s natural taking the back seat to the spirit as the teacher?
• How do we gain the faith to allow all of this to happen and stop relying on ourselves/try to force learning?
• What is the purpose of sacrament talks/EFY talks?
• Why can’t we use more technology/social media with missionaries?

Invitation:

Increase in Learning by David A. Bednar

Get a copy of this and if you don’t have the fund please contact Brooke

Read and do the workbook according to the Weekly Training Meeting Topics

Training Next week- not meeting formally. Pick an hour in your week next week to go to the Education in Zion exhibit, work independently, and see if some of the questions about learning that we had can be answered at that exhibit. 

Act in faith, bring what you learn to our next training meeting.