New Zealand Hamilton Mission, July 2014 — Insights, wisdom, and truths learned
Truths and thoughts from July 2014
- District meeting, July 1, 2014
- Set smart goals, use time more effectively, be a consecrated missionary
- Zone meeting, July 3, 2014 (held in Hamilton at the Mission headquarters)
- There is too much gossip going on in the mission; allow your fellow-missionaries to change and move on!
- Sustain your leaders
- We will no longer hold District leadership meetings on Mondays
- We will also no longer ask for accountability reports in District meetings
- PLEASE eliminate slang from your language; use dignified and appropriate language
- Be on time!
- We ask you to only have one set of missionaries at any given dinner appointment
- Do not use the term ‘P-day’. The proper way to say this is ‘preparation day’.
- Joshua 1:8 — “This book of the law [the scriptures] shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.”
- Instructions from the Mission office, July 10, 2014
- Electrical bills have tripled; turn off lights and conserve energy
- Wash and vacuum your cars as instructed
- Cars are not to be used for regular proselyting; limit the use of cars to get to meetings and to visit remote locations only
- We have had 15 bicycles stolen since the first of the year; be cautious and careful, lock your bikes when not in use
- Baptismal services should include a sign-in book, restoration pamphlets, obtaining the names of those invited by the new convert
- Prior planning prevents poor, pitiful performance!
- Keep your area books accurate and shop within your areas.
- Full-time missionaries are to teach lessons 1 through 5 both before and after baptism.
- District meeting, July 15, 2014
- What is the role of prayer in conversion? See Preach My Gospel, page 73.
- Remember B-R-E-A-D when using scriptures: B ackground, R ead, E xplain, A apply, D ouble testify.
- Knowledge plus experience equals understanding, understanding leads to love, love leads to obedience, obedience leads to faith, faith leads to repentance.
- Line upon line, precept upon precept. See 2 Nephi 28:30. Ask questions and then apply the answers to those questions.
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