Ecclesiastical Training — Provo Missionary Training Center — March 10, 2019
1/ President and Sister Rahlf
- Reach out to others even here in the MTC, not just when you arrive in your assigned field of labor.
- Make greater use of the Missionary Purpose. Keep it in the forefront of the missionary’s experience.
- Make better use of the “successful missionary” quote on pages 11 and 12 of Preach My Gospel.
2/ Kelly Mills and others on the Training staff
- Purpose of the MTC
- To gain an appreciation of the Missionary Purpose
- Master language, skills, doctrine, and attributes
- We have over 600 teachers currently
- Tools — scriptures, Preach My Gospel, guidelines for teachers
- Book of Mormon sharing skills
- Book of Mormon reading skills
- Teaching from the Book of Mormon
- Methods
- Standards model
- Training model
- Learning model
- Improvement
- Curriculum team
- Special needs
- Classroom focus
- Finding and teaching
- Goal setting and planning
- Language
- Preach My Gospel chapter 3
- Adjusting to Missionary Life
- Safeguards
- Speak Your Language (habla su idioma)
- Principles
- Use what you know
- Try first in your language
- Ask permission
- Find out how
- Write it down
- Study and apply
- Resources
- Basic core
- Intermediate core
- MTC testing
- Language guides
- Teachers
- Embark and Tall Drill
- Computer lab
- Texts and vocabulary guides
- Language
- Memorize
- Master grammar
- Practice in the language
- Creation, agency, Fall
- Atonement
- Faith in Jesus
- Repentance
- Doctrine
- God is our loving Heavenly Father
- God blesses us individually
- Heavenly Father reveals the gospel in various dispensations
- Finding and teaching
- Natural conversation
- Have to begin a conversation
- How to use the Book of Mormon
- How to help people make and keep commitments
- Ask questions, listen, and adjust
3/ President and Sister LeSeuer
- Just this week, an elder arrived on Wednesday and was back home by Friday. We need to do better
- We are to minister, not manage.
- We are a bit troubled by the size of some of the branches. We will smooth out the branch sizes.
- Obedience is the ‘weight room’ of the MTC.
- The Power of a Missionary
- How can we increase the ‘power’ of a missionary?
- Power is determined by: 1) Personal conversion 2) Personal knowledge 3) Personal skills in conveying the message 4) Personal health and well-being
- Conversion:
- Faithfulness
- Obedience
- Directed by the Spirit
- Christ-like attributes
- Strong work ethic
- Socially appropriate
- Knowledge
- Fundamental doctrines
- Restoration
- Plan of salvation
- Gospel
- Commandments
- Book of Mormon
- Planning and finding
- Skills in conveying the message
- Social skills
- Genuine love
- Commitments
- Testify
- Health
- Physical
- Emotional
- Social
- Intellectual
- Spiritual
- Yerkes – Dodson performance chart:
- The Y-axis is performance, the X-axis is stress
- There is a bell shaped curve. The stress increases from boredom to stimulation to alertness to peak performance down to decreased concentration down to decreased memory capacity down to overwhelmed.
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