Provo Missionary Training Center Tour 2017

Stake Missionary Ward Mission Leader Correlation Meeting - April 23,2107

The Work of Salvation: Improving Gospel Teaching

The stake presidency feels impressed to have all teachers in the Pleasant Grove Utah Manila stake listen to interviews and messages the church has published regarding teaching. These recordings were published a few years ago as part of the Teaching, No Greater Call series on the Mormon Channel. There are eight recordings in particular that we invite and encourage all teachers to listen to and review.

The recordings from the Teaching No Greater Call interview series are:

• Episode 15, Elder Bednar on the Importance of Teaching in the Gospel
• Episode 16, Elder Bednar on Teaching in the Gospel Part 2
• Episode 17, Effective Gospel Learning with Elder Jay Jensen
• Episode 18, Effective Gospel Learning with Elder Jay Jensen Part 2
• Episode 3, Teaching by the Spirit- Part 1
• Episode 4, Teaching by the Spirit- Part 2
• Episode 9, Teaching the Youth - Part 1
• Episode 10, Teaching the Youth - Part 2

Adjusting To Missionary Life - Resource Booklet

Dear Bishop -

Effective immediately, we will be inviting all prospective missionaries to read or watch the following resources in preparation for their missions.

https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/missionary-broadcast?lang=eng

https://www.lds.org/manual/resource-booklet-adjusting-to-missionary-life?lang=eng

Adjusting to Missionary Life can also be located in the Gospel Library app under Missionary. It would be great for parents to become familiar with this resource as well. A PDF version is attached.

Missionary, Family History, and Temple Work

At a solemn assembly held in the Kirtland Temple on April 6, 1837, the Prophet Joseph Smith said, “After all that has been said, the greatest and most important duty is to preach the Gospel.”1

Almost precisely seven years later, on April 7, 1844, he declared: “The greatest responsibility in this world that God has laid upon us is to seek after our dead. The apostle says, ‘They without us cannot be made perfect’ [see Hebrews 11:40]; for it is necessary that the sealing power should be in our hands to seal our children and our dead for the fulness of the dispensation of times—a dispensation to meet the promises made by Jesus Christ before the foundation of the world for the salvation of man.”2

Some individuals may wonder how both preaching the gospel and seeking after our dead can be simultaneously the greatest duties and responsibilities God has placed upon His children. My purpose is to suggest that these teachings highlight the unity and oneness of the latter-day work of salvation. Missionary work and family history and temple work are complementary and interrelated aspects of one great work, “that in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him” (Ephesians 1:10).

I pray the power of the Holy Ghost will assist you and me as we consider together the marvelous latter-day work of salvation.

To review the whole address click here:  https://www.lds.org/ensign/2014/10/missionary-family-history-and-temple-work?lang=eng

Strengthening Marriage: What To Do When Marriages Struggle

Orem Utah Mission - Semi-Annual Local Unit Leadership Training Meeting

The Orem Utah Mission has scheduled the mission wide semi-annual local unit leadership-training meeting.  A member of the Area Seventy Coordinating Council will preside.  The training will discuss the direction being given to the full time missionaries as well as train Stake and Ward Mission Leaders on building the Kingdom through missionary work.

President Killpack has asked we extend an invite to you.  The members of the High Council will be personally inviting all of the Ward Mission Leaders.

Time: Thursday, February 23  7:00 PM

Location: Alpine Tabernacle  110 East Main, American Fork

Duration: Just over an hour

Quick Start: Six Week Plan for New Teachers

In general as a teacher: 1) keep the commandments, 2) study and ponder the scriptures and words of the prophets, 3) pray, fast and humble yourself before the Lord and 4) attend the temple.

Elements of a Family Mission Plan - By Elder & Sister McDonald

Elements of a Family Mission Plan

1. Missionary Preparation
2. Serve Someone
3. Share with Someone
4. Invite Someone
5. Fellowship Someone
6. Support the Missionaries

In preparing your Family Mission Plan consider choosing from this list of ideas things you are not currently doing or would like to do better.

Orem Utah Mission - Semi-Annual Local Unit Leadership Training Meeting

The Orem Utah Mission has scheduled the mission wide semi-annual local unit leadership training meeting.  A member of the Area Seventy Coordinating Council will preside.  The training will discuss the direction being given to the full time missionaries as well as train Stake and Ward Mission Leaders on building the Kingdom through missionary work.  

President Killpack has asked we extend an invite to you.  The members of the High Council will be personally inviting all of the Ward Mission Leaders (HC Missionary Committee - will you also ensure all ward mission leaders have been invited to attend, along with reminding them as it gets closer).

Here are the details:

Time: Thursday, February 23, 2017  7:00pm

Location: Alpine Tabernacle  110 East Main, American Fork

Duration:  Just over an hour

Thank you for your service!

Utah Orem Mission 4th Semi-Annual Musical Fireside March 17, 2017

My 5 Favorite Parts Of Elder Curtis' Talk From Last General Conference

My 5 favorite parts of Elder Curtis’ talk from last General Conference:

“And we talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we preach of Christ, we prophesy of Christ, and we write according to our prophecies, that our children may know to what source they may look for a remission of their sins.”