Elements of a Family Mission Plan
- Missionary Preparation
- Serve Someone
- Share with Someone
- Invite Someone
- Fellowship Someone
- 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.
MISSIONARY PREPARATION:
- Have daily personal and family scripture study
- Have daily personal and family prayer
- Attend the temple regularly
- Study Preach My Gospel, especially chapter 3
- Youth - take frequent opportunities to teach in Sunday School and YM/YW (Come Follow Me). Combined FHE with other families where youth teach
- View Hastening the Work of Salvation videos at lds.org/training/wwlt/2013/hastening
- Periodically review your Family Mission Plan during Family Home Evening
- Make financial preparations for a future mission
- Attend Seminary, Institute and Mission Preparation Classes
- Other?
SERVE SOMEONE (Non or Less-Active Members):
- Pray for service and missionary opportunities each day
- Fast for service and missionary opportunities
- Be involved in community service
- Plan a community service project that involves others not of our faith
- Give service whenever you see a need. Don’t hesitate.
- Serve your ancestors by finding their names and doing their temple work
- Other?
SHARE WITH SOMEONE (Non or Less-Active Members):
- Give someone a subscription to a church magazine
- Share your testimony with someone
- Give someone a Book of Mormon, a Pass-Along Card or a Church video
- Share friendship, have a conversation with someone
- Share a General Conference talk with someone
- Share your home for the missionaries to teach
- Share something you learned at church with someone
- Share with someone how the gospel blessed your life
- Use the internet or social media to share with someone in the following ways:
- Create a profile on mormon.org (mormon.org/create)
- Start a blog and share how the gospel blesses your life
- Share a mormon message, video, etc. through social media
- Use Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter to share your testimony, gratitude, gospel blessings or experience
- Refer someone to mormon.org
INVITE SOMEONE (Non or Less Active Members):
- Invite someone to dinner
- Invite someone to a church activity
- Invite someone to church
- Invite someone to family home evening
- Invite someone to meet the missionaries and learn more about the church in your home
- Invite someone out of your area to meet with the missionaries and refer them through mormon.org/missionaries
- Invite someone to do family history work using familysearch.org
- Invite someone to help you do service
- Invite someone to help with a ward activity
- Invite someone to hear a family member give a talk at church
- Invite someone to see a baby blessing or baptism
- Invite someone to share a talent, lesson or experience at a church fireside, activity or meeting
- Other?
FELLOWSHIP SOMEONE (Non or Less-Active Members and Recent Converts):
- Greet and welcome anyone you don’t know at church
- Invite someone who needs fellowshipping to sit by you at church. Help them to their meetings following sacrament meeting and join them if possible
- Support Missionaries by:
- Pray for the missionaries serving in your area by name and pray for those serving throughout the world
- Pray for specific individuals the missionaries are working with
- Fast for the missionaries and their investigators
- Off specific help and fellowship for those the missionaries are working with
- Invite the missionaries to dinner or to teach your family a missionary lesson
- Go on splits with the missionaries
- Donate to the ward or general missionary fund
- Support missionaries from your ward: Pray for them, write to them, visit with their families about their missions
