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. 

Training Meeting- August 14, 2014

Weekly Training Meeting

August 14, 2014

Announcements:

• No weekly training on the 21st
• On the 28th meet with your new zones for fall
• Google doc sign up sheet to see Brooke Teach a District- Look with principles based eyes

Demo:

Brooke Demos the Gospel of Jesus Christ using the Book of Mormon

Practice:

Demonstrate your fundamental you have prepared with a partner

Evaluation Questions:

What would your missionaries “capture” if they were watching you do this demo?

What did your investigators “receive” from the Book of Mormon combined with the Spirit?

How was the purpose fulfilled?

What evidence of conversion did you see/feel in ______?

Expound:

• to set forth vs. speaking over the voice of the Book of Mormon
• Set forth personal relevance
• lay it out in the open so you can see it plainly

Training Meeting- August 7, 2014

Weekly Training Meeting

August 7, 2014

Practice:

• Extend invitation to live the Law of Chastity
• Explain why they need to live the Law of Chastity/Extend invitation
• Follow up when they say no to living the Law of Chastity

Study:

• Mosiah 18:8-10 What role did doctrine play in helping the investigators accept the invitation?
• Mosiah 18:10-11 Where was their commitment to live it? How do you see then exercising their agency in the future?
• Mosiah 18:12-15 What affect did accepting this invitation play in Helam’s conversion?

Help the missionaries see a need to learn so that they will want to. Help them to see that something has to change. 

Our purpose is to help missionaries KNOW and APPLY their purpose. We do this through P.I., everything should revolve around P.I.

Invitation:

Come prepared for next week with a demonstration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ (5-6 minutes) with the BoM as your central resource in conversion and 3 separate practices that you want them to do. (This will be an extension of the Fundamental that you practiced today)

Training Meeting- July 31, 2014

Teach your investigator what you prepared last week.

Training Meeting- July 24, 2014

Weekly Training Substitute Assignment:

• Spend a half hour with your companion to go through the Plan Study Teach Cycle and plan for your investigator that you will be teaching. 
• Be sure to include one chapter out of the Book of Mormon to teach the Plan of Salvation. 
• You do NOT need to come to training to make this happen formally at the time that you typically come. Just work with your assigned companion to figure out when to meet during the week. 

Training Meeting- July 17th, 2017

Weekly Training Meeting

July 17th, 2014

Help your missionaries gain faith in the Book of Mormon. 

As they do, their teaching will lead to power.

Practice:

Teach Principles of the Restoration through the Book of Mormon focusing on- 

1. As you teach the restoration- Have the Central Message (DOC) threaded throughout

2. Teach/Prep who you are now! (not who you were as a missionary) 

3. Let the Book of Mormon speak- don’t use it as a book of evidence or a second voice

What are you learning about yourself, the Book of Mormon and the Spirit?

(Class Insight)

• Missionaries need to learn how to use the Book of Mormon as a resource
• If you were interviewed as an investigator, you would say that the Book of Mormon or the Scriptures are what lead you to conversion… not your missionaries
• As you use the Book of Mormon you will be able to ask more inspired questions
• Practicing using the Book of Mormon is vital in our teaching so we can help the missionaries do the same
• The primary way to bring the spirit into your lessons is to use the scriptures so God can provide revelation for all involved
• The Book of Mormon combined with the Spirit is the ONLY tool that can really change someone

PMG Pg. 111

What aspects of your training the missionaries are you not using the Book of Mormon in?

Are our practices connected to their studies?

Invitation:

Start using the BOM in the aspect you feel like you are not

July 10, 2014

Weekly Training Meeting

July 10, 2014

Announcements:

Soccer MTC Cup!! Sign up to play- google doc

You are required to Makeup zone meetings and trainings when missed. 

We must sit back and 

let the Book of Mormon speak to us, 

instead of us to it.

Practice:

Teaching principles out of Chapter 3 through the Book of Mormon

• Introduce investigator. You will be teaching 2 different people 2 different lessons. (1st. Investigator you will teach 2 principles from the restoration and 2nd investigator you will teach 2 principles from the pos)
• Plan, study, teach (choose 2 principles for first; 2 principles for last practice)
• 1st practice
• Evaluation- How was the purpose fulfilled through the bon and the spirit?
• 1st re-practice
• Evaluation
• 2nd practice
• 2nd re-practice

July 3, 2014

Weekly Training Meeting

July 3, 2014

Preach My Gospel 

Chapter 5 pg. 107

Other questions may focus on more temporal needs: How can I improve my relationship with my spouse? How can I help my teenagers avoid drugs or immorality? How can I find work to support my family?

The gospel of Jesus Christ helps us answer both kinds of questions. As we gain faith that the Book of Mormon is true, we can begin to answer questions about the purpose of life and the hope of eternal life. The Book of Mormon describes the plan of happiness, which gives meaning and perspective to life. Answers to questions such as the following are clearly taught int he Book of Mormon. 

In this chapter it also says- the Book Of Mormon is the keystone of our religion. ANOTHER important thing that Preach My Gospel says is that, the Book Of Mormon is the keystone of our DOCTRINE. 

pg. 113

District Meetings and Zone Conferences

Practice using the Book Of Mormon in each of the ways mentioned in the main headings of this chapter 

• The Book of Mormon Is the Keystone of Our Religion
• The Book of Mormon Testifies of Christ
• The Book of Mormon and the Bible Support Each Other
• The Book of Mormon Answers Questions of the Soul
• The Book of Mormon Draws People Nearer to God
• Use the Book of Mormon to Respond to Objections
• How Should you Use the Book of Mormon

*Each one is a progressive experience

Practice: 

Progressive Book of Mormon Reads 1-4

Explain 2 minutes, Practice 13 minutes

Allow missionaries to learn by doing and not by hearing you talk

Things to consider:

1. Does the missionary know why you’re doing this BoM read? Do they see that this practice is necessary to get them to the point of being Awesome Facilitators?
2. Did your application lead them to the ultimate objective in this BoM read?
3. Has it been a progressive experience for you as a missionary thus far?
4. How can you prepare them before this shift happens so your explain portion is short and they are prepared with material to practice?
5. As a teacher, were you a “coach” in this experience? How could you have HELPED your missionaries more?

What are you learning as you evaluate using these questions?

(Class Insight)

• We should help our missionaries expect to be facilitating
• Giving them a birds eye view on the 1st BOM is good but may not be enough, sometimes it takes more than just once
• Help them to see how to facilitate their own types of learning, what questions did you ask yourself, ask that to your investigators

BoM Read Application Example

Example of Book of Mormon Read Applications

These are a few of the different applications I came up with for the 4 different Book of Mormon read scenarios we discussed last training meeting. I have them organized under the numbers 1-4 representing the 4 different scenarios discussed. I realized that some of these are pretty specific and I am not sure if you wanted them to be more general? I hope that at least a few of them capture the vision of what you were intending!

1. (Reading 2 Nephi 31 as a class)

-On the board write insight and revelation in a "T" chart, insight on one side revelation on the other. Explain and give an example of insight vs. revelation. As you read write down insights class members have. Then help them to push those insights further to revelation. 

-Write a few simple but exploratory questions on the board regarding the first principles and ordinances of the Gospel. Perhaps assign certain missionaries to each question. Find answers to these questions. Help them to see that the BoM teaches the Gospel simply. This will also help them to see that questions can be answered though studying the BoM.

-In order to better understand the context of the scriptures and what is going on have them draw simply what they are reading. From 2 Nephi 31 what does the Gospel look like to them?

-Invite them to look for specific parts of the missionary purpose in 2 Nephi 31.  Such as looking for and example of inviting or how we come to Christ etc. 

2. (Personal experience with the BoM and no teacher)

-Help them to learn doctrine through the BoM. Have them study a part of one of the lessons (the Saviors Earthly Ministry and Atonement, Great Apostasy, Baptism etc.) by only reading BoM verses on that particular subject. Then have them write down in their own words a paragraph on the subject containing only doctrines that are taught in the verses that they read.

-Discover the purpose of the BoM for themselves. Have them read paragraph 6 of the Into to the BoM. Then invite them to study"Scriptures, Value of" in the topical guide referencing only the BoM verses. The goal is to help them see that the whole purpose of the BoM is to bring others to Christ. Invite them to evaluate the way they study and view the BoM and make necessary adjustments to apply what they learned.

-Do the activity in the orange box on page 23 of PMG. Summarize the content of passages such as setting, main events and main theme. Do this with multiple chapters to help them see the bigger picture of the BoM.

3.

-This is a continuation of the application listed previous where you do the 'T' chart with insight and revelation only this time around they do it as companionship and practice facilitating insight to revelation for their companion.

-Continuation of one of the applications previous, practice teaching companion the purpose of the BoM and then help the companion come to Christ through the BoM by asking questions, reading verses and then helping the companion apply what has been taught. (I realized this is basically the same as one you had us do aside from the part of teaching the purpose of the BoM..)

4.

-Use the questions of the soul in chapter 5 of PMG to practice teaching doctrine according to needs. Help them to ask questions, read and apply rather than just giving the investigator the answer. 

-Practice teaching principles from the BoM.  This goes along well with the application mentioned previous where they study a principle using only BoM references and then write in their own words that principles. 

Thanks for giving us this invitation! Doing this has helped me to realize some of the possibilities for BoM reads that I had not considered previously. 

Training Meeting June 19, 2014

Weekly Training Meeting

June 19, 2014

Book of Mormon Reads —> A Progressive Experience

What it should look like

1. Missionaries have an experience in 2 Nephi 31 where personal paradigms are shifted of their relationship with the BoM; purpose; principles of Gospel
2. Missionaries should be able to have a powerful paradigm shifting experience with themselves and the BoM without a teacher 
3. Missionaries can begin to facilitate revelation for there, including members
4. Missionaries begin to facilitate revelation for others, including investigators

Applications/Practices to get there

1. 2 Nephi 31

Brooke demonstrates what this may look like in your classroom with 1 Teacher and 1 Missionary. 

Starts in verse 17

Brooke: Are there any words or phrases that stuck out to you as a group?… 

Class: Fire… 

Brooke: Go with me to the BD under holy ghost, why is the HG often accompanied with the word fire?, start with- more powerful then that which, READ,  What are you learning about the role of the holy ghost and why is it one of the first principles of the Gospel to receive the HG… 
Class: we have to have the HG to be clean… 

Brooke: It is important for your investigators to know that by the HG is how they will become clean… 

Brooke: What are more things that stick out…

Class: That ye might know the gate at which ye should enter…

Brooke: What are some paths that you think people are living in their lives right now without the gospel… 

Class: Misguided, horrible, unknown, stagnant… 

Brooke: What does the DOC have for us, what words would you use… 

Class: Clear, simple consistent, direction, understood

What did you learn from this demonstration? What did you feel?

(Class Insight)

• Unsure if I should comment or not
• Should I comment on something if it’s not what we are talking about?
• Someone else already said what I wanted to say
• Thinking of you (Brooke) as the teacher. Group readings seemed before like a guessing game.. now
• You had the direction in the way we were moving

Your missionaries feel all of these things. Make sure you practice this and talk with your missionaries so they can feel comfortable, so they can trust you and their district

Practice 2 Nephi 31 with someone- 1 teacher, 1 missionary

What did you learn from the practice? How will you teach this differently?

(Class Insight)

• Should I have an objective of what I am trying to learn or listen to what the missionary has in mind and try to go deeper with it? go in the direction that they are going but take it back to the purpose
• Jeffery R Holland quote in PMG- if they don’t read be devastated
• I try to do new things that I haven’t done before, now if I do it with missionaries I have an idea of what did and didn’t work. It helped established a need of practices between teachers

Practice- 1 Nephi 1- personal insight with revelation

Write down any time you receive any insight from it and the revelation it brought on

can you distinguish between insights and revelation

What did you learn from this?

(Class Insight)

• It’s hard work.. my mind is all over the place
• Try to go back to the missionary mindset and think about where you started from
• Thought maybe I read too fast and I wasn’t writing as much as the others
• I realized how distracted I got

Based on these insights what are you going to change as a teacher?

(Class Insight)

• working with them one on one to help them understand insights- coaching
• your revelation is your own and you shouldn't compare yourself to others

Practice- Pick 2 Scriptures out of Lesson Plan- 2 missionaries as themselves

Turn to page 180 in PMG

Introduce the scripture. 

Describe briefly the background and context of the passage you will use. Invite the investigator to look for particular points in the passage. When teaching people with a limited knowledge of the scriptures, you may need to begin by describing the contents of a passage, using language that they will understand. Below are examples of introducing a scripture:

• “Here in Joseph Smith’s history we have Joseph’s own words telling what happened to him as he went into the grove to pray. He said, ‘I saw a pillar of light …’”

• “In this passage the prophet Alma is teaching people who are poor to exercise their faith in the word of God. He compares the word of God to a seed that can be planted in our hearts. Will you begin reading verse …”

Read the passage. 

Read the verses aloud or ask the investigator to read aloud. Be sensitive to those who struggle to read. If a passage is difficult for them to understand, read with them carefully and help them understand the more difficult points. Or give them a simpler passage to read. You might also define difficult words or phrases:

• “Let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not [’upbraideth not’ means that God won’t find blame or fault] and it shall be given him” (James 1:5).

Some scriptural passages are clear and need no explanation. For others you may take time to explain what has been read.

Apply the scripture. 

“Liken” the scriptures to yourself and to investigators by showing how the principles are relevant today (see 1 Nephi 19:23). Show investigators how they can apply the principles in their lives. As they do, they will come to know that the doctrine is true. Bear your testimony of the principle, and promise them blessings. For example:

• “The people of Alma, like you, had heavy burdens placed on them, almost more than they could bear. But as they exercised faith and ‘cried mightily to God,’ He strengthened them so they could endure the challenges and then delivered them from their trials. Just as He did with these people, I know God will help you in your trials as you …”

• “Alma’s instruction to the people at the waters of Mormon applies to us today. John, are you willing to …”

The people you teach will differ widely in how they view sacred texts, how familiar they are with the Bible, how well they understand scriptural language, and how deeply they believe that the Bible contains God’s word. Help all investigators gain an appreciation for the scriptures. By effectively using the scriptures in your teaching, you can help investigators begin to study the scriptures on their own. After each visit, suggest specific chapters or verses for them to read. You might give them questions to consider as they read, which you can discuss in your next meeting. This will encourage them to study the scriptures daily in their homes and participate in Church meetings and classes where the scriptures are used.

What did you experience from this practice?

(Class Insight)

• Keeping in mind what a role play should looks like, 2 missionaries sharing with each other are role playing but not knowing it
• liken the scriptures and apply them
• you can never demo enough for you missionaries
• sometimes missionaries are on different levels of BoM progression- maybe go to each companionship and assign them different methods while adapting to where they are in their insights and revelations

Practice- Entire Chapter in BoM- 1 Missionary, 1 Investigator

The investigator did not read what their last assignment was.

Introduce, read and apply the chapter.

What did you experience from this practice?

• investigators are identifying the doctrine of christ independent of us

Practice- pick a lesson out of preach my gospel only out of the BoM

What did you notice about the way the practices were set up?

(Class Insight)

• We had times to prepare
• It’s progressive
• less talking and more doing
• draw upon things they may have already prepared or practiced 

Why did we do this in pairs and NOT as a group?

(Class Insight)

• Everyone can experience it and are engaged
• it allows your missionaries to be independent doer and thinkers 

Remember:

Remind your missionaries learning is messy! Be vulnerable! 

Give them birds eye view of this process.

Set up and communication with companion is everything

Invitation: Send an email of your own applications of what a progressive BoM lesson would be

Intro, Read, Apply