Missionary Standards
Missionary Standards 2.2.1: Companions should help each other learn, grow, and develop_____________
Christlike Attributes
What is the ultimate purpose of training new missionaries?
To help them fulfill their missionary purpose
How often and how long is the In-Field Preach My Gospel training and when does it get to be completed?
MSDJ 2.4.2 and 2.4.4.
30-60 mins additional companionship study each day for the new missionary for 12 weeks in the field.
Is a normal physical and emotional response to the changes and challenges of life and is necessary for growth.
Stress
“I will go before your face. I will be on your right hand and on your left, and my Spirit shall be in your hearts, and mine angels round about you, to bear you up”
Doctrine and Covenants 84:88
Missionary Standards 2.2.1:
How often should you study together ________ and pray together _________ throughout the day.
Study together every day and pray together frequently
Why is Training Important?
Bridge
Shape ->mission
bless the mission
sacred stewardship
Is a highly skilled, recently returned missionary employed at an MTC; trained to work with new missionaries in practical, localized ways.
In-Field Mentor
What level of Stress when your companion is tense, worried, insecure, anxious, unprepared, trouble getting along with others, difficulty feeling the Spirit.
How do you help your companion
Yellow
Advise: "Being kind to yourself as you cope with challenges and learn new skills will help you become stronger and increase your ability to serve. Continue to pray and serve in faith. Look to the scriptures and conference talks, your district and zone leaders, and this booklet for help."
“Know thou, my son, that all these things shall give thee experience, and shall be for thy good”
Doctrine and Covenants 122:7
Missionary Standards 2.1
What is your most important responsibility, regardless of any leadership assignment?
To be a faithful and dedicated missionary.
What are My Responsibilities as a Trainer?
Study the Missionary Standards...
Use Preach My Gospel
Support spiritual growth
Help adjust
Encourage confidence
Use In-field PMG Training
Preach My Gospel is intended to do what?
To help you be a better-prepared, more spiritually mature missionary. It is also intended to help you be a more effective teacher.
"The normal transitions of transfers, new companions, and new assignments will also require some adjustments. Be patient as you learn to recognize the blessings of devoting your life more fully to the _______. Remember, ___ ______ will be with you as you make this transition and will assist you in adjusting to your new missionary responsibilities."
Savior
The Spirit
Cease to be idle; cease to be unclean; cease to find fault one with another; cease to sleeplonger than is needful; retire to thy bed early, that ye may not be weary; arise early, that your bodies and your minds may be invigorated.
Doctrine and Covenants 88:124
What is a typical daily activities of a missionary?
MSDJ 2.4.1
Set and review personal, companion, and mission goals.
Plan your schedule for the day.
Prepare lessons.
Study the scriptures, Preach My Gospel, teachings of the living prophets and apostles, and other approved resources (see 2.4.4).
Review one health or safety topic or one of the safeguards for using technology (see 4.0–4.7).
Find people to teach.
Work with local leaders and members.
Serve others in planned or unplanned activities.
Take care of personal needs, such as eating meals and preparing for the day.
What to do during exchanges if the new missionary is still in training period?
Prepare your companion so that he or she knows what to do during additional companion study and throughout the day.
PMG Chap 5 First Presidency Message:
We invite you to rise to a ___ _____ __ __________ to assist our Father in Heaven in His glorious work”
new sense of commitment
What are the 4 phases/stages of emotional adjustments to missionary life?
1. Anticipation
2. Discovering the Unexpected
3. "I can do this!"
4. Emotional Self-Reliance
And if it so be that you should labor all your days in crying repentance unto this people, and bring, save it be one soul unto me, how great shall be your joy with him in the kingdom of my Father!
Doctrine and Covenants 18:15
What else should a trainer do according to Missionary Standards?
Works with and trains a new missionary with love, patience, charity, and empathy.
Respects the contributions and insights of the new missionary as an equal companion.
Spends additional training time each day in companion study
Studies the standards in this handbook with his or her companion daily.
Trains the new missionary on topics found in the Safeguards for Using Technology and Adjusting to Missionary Life resources.
Demonstrates how to effectively coordinate missionary efforts with local leaders and members.
How do I report our progress in training? And what should I report?
Weekly letter and interviews with Mission President
-Learning ->Missionary Purpose
-Application of Principles of PMG
-Disciple of Jesus Christ
-Challenges
Trainers and new missionaries will focus on the following principles from Preach My Gospel:
What chapters? (8 counts)
1,8,9,10,11,12,13
(and Adjusting to Missionary Life)
How can you make sure to schedule all your learning activities for the next week so you have time to complete them all?
Plan ahead!
Wherefore, how great the importance to make these things known unto the inhabitants of the earth, that they may know that there is no flesh that can dwell in the presence of God, save it be through the merits, and mercy, and grace of the Holy Messiah, who layethdown his life according to the flesh, and taketh it again by the power of the Spirit, that he may bring to pass the resurrection of the dead, being the first that should rise.
2 Nephi 2:8