August 10, 2015- Coming Alive in Christ

To Complete Assignment: Email Lisanne what you learned from this training.

Announcements:

• Welcome Anna Lewis!!
• Today is the last traditional training with Lissy.. next week Daryl trains
• If you need a meeting with Lisanne be sure to text her or email me (sally) we know that her google doc is black so if you need her, text please

                                                  Making the Ordinary- Extraordinary                     

CJ Bacon- working in Lisanne’s area can have profound consequences on your life if you allow it to

Video Awesomeness- Ask Lisanne to see

Group Activity:

Read John 20

How do we help missionaries become alive in Christ during tired or hard times? 

Practice- Situations

Preparation for P-day

Discussion of tired missionaries after P-day

Morning practice tiredness

Mid-practice tiredness

Homesick missionaries

Last couple days at the MTC before leaving for the field

July 27, 2015- Making our prayers truly in the name of Christ

To Complete Assignment: Email Lisanne what you learned from this training.

Announcements:

We have over 800 English missionaries this week!! Be sure to be at your shift and helping out. 

I’m a disciple:

Costner- I remember being asked to share my testimony is sunday school.. I believed but I never really had a personal experience. Shortly after I had one. I was given something that was bigger than I could do on my own. I turned to Heavenly Father and said that I’ve been taught that Christ could help me with this, I don’t know how but I need it. I know that it was Christ who helped me. I’ve had many more experiences after. I’ve been changed by following him in a way that will last for eternity.

Chandler- We love him because he loved us first.. I think that’s why I’m a disciple. Looking back on my life I see everything that he has personally done for me. He was always there and because of that I love him. I could go elsewhere but I realize that there is nothing else but Jesus Christ. He has the words of eternal life. I want to do anything to help others become his friend. 

Have you noticed that we are talking a lot about keeping the sabbath holy in church?

John 17- The Great Intercessory Prayer

How does this prayer reflect the true name (or work) of Christ?

Elder Oaks video- What the name of Christ means?

Group Activity:

What does it mean to pray in the name of Jesus Christ?

Discuss from the video

Discuss from last 2 paragraphs in Bible Dictionary- Prayer

     Think- Name=Work

Read and Reflect:

John 17- The Great Intercessory Prayer

How does this prayer reflect the true name (or work) of Christ?

Activity:

Review your personal transcribed prayer

     Make notes on: What is in MY NAME? CHRIST’S NAME?

• Discuss as a group what you learned about your prayers and prayers in general
  •      What will your learnings do to impact your personal relationship with Christ?
• Discuss as a group how we can help missionaries live more in the name of Christ. 

July 13, 2015- What does John have to say...

To Complete Assignment: Email Lisanne what you learned from this training. 

Announcements:

• If your plans for fall semester are changing let Lisanne know ASAP
• Please help out all you can with subs and resourcing this month!! We need help!!

I’m a disciple

Sam- There are 12 baskets at the end of feeding the 5,000… food still in them. I know that Christ is the savior of my sins, insecurities, and shortcoming. 

Michael H- You are a disciple of what you put your faith in. I put my faith in him, he was perfect and an amazing example. 

Discuss in your groups the question about receiving that was in your prep work.

Read as Group:

John 6

     Focus: 

          Writers intent/Historical context

          How to help missionaries receive and in turn help them help their investigators receive. 

Practice Activity:

Objective- Help missionaries develop a desire to receive that which they need from God and can get from no earthly source.

1. Personal Study- Missionaries reading just to look busy

2. Companionship Study- Missionaries are not talking to each other

3. Evaluation Post PI- Missionaries are content with their performance

4. Evaluation Post Practice- Missionaries answer your evaluation questions with “Yes"

5. Prayer- Missionaries prayer are rote, quick, thoughtless

Evaluation:

How were the missionaries more prepared to receive from God?

Instead of you?

*Check out Learner Enabling bullet 2

Revelations about what it means to receive?

To regain Jesus Christ into our live. We need to regain him each day.

Sometimes I try to hard and am too forceful… he is constantly throwing things at us and all we have to do is receive

Missionaries try to receive things from us too much. We need to help them receive things from God. 

July 6, 2015- John's Perspective

To Complete Assignment: Email Lisanne what you learned from this training. 

Announcements:

Sunday at 8pm go to Kate’s house to listen to Chandler and Trevor talk about Jerusalem. 

Thanks for all your help with Mission President Seminar!

The purpose of groups is to turn outward and be more Christ centered.

Bye Bye Sean! We will miss you.

I’m a Disciple 

JD- Living, exercising faith and repenting has helped me change. I’ve come to know through personal experience that it’s real and I know that he will come again and when that happens I want to be by his side. 

Pam- John 1:5.. Through Christ I’ve been able to invite more light in my life. He has helped me want to help others go through that same process. 

Group Thinking

What did you learn about Christ’s character from John’s perspective after reading the synopsis of John and John 1?

Read John 4- (Women at the well)

Focus on the relationship between knowing Christ and developing spiritual gifts.

Practice:

Purpose- Help missionaries develop a stronger relationship with Christ that will lead them to seek after spiritual gifts.

Evaluation- How did the focus on developing a relationship with Christ help them develop spiritual gifts to help them overcome their stresses and shortcomings?

Situations:

1. Frustrated missionaries over non-responsive investigators

2. Homesick/Anxiety

3. Companionship Conflict

4. Missionaries that feel they don’t need to plan before a lesson

5. Missionaries discourage with how to have effective studies

As a table, how would you typically solve this?

     How would you solve it using spiritual gifts as a focus?

June 29, 2015- Study Groups

 Teachers of the Most Celestial Realm!

I hope that you week is going fantastically! I love meeting with each of you and seeing you on a regular basis! I hope summer is treating you well. 

As you know, I will be out of town during our normal training time this week.  You will still have an assignment.  This email will outline that assignment.  I think that you will find what we are going to do quite fun and different.

Remember the purpose for our area this summer is to create an intimate relationship with the Savior that permeates every aspect of our lives.  This is gained through studying the WORD. 

After spending a few weeks reading the scriptures in training, it has come clear that having consistent reading groups will be essential for scripture reading to be a progressive experience from training to training.

Each of you filled out a survey about your study of the word in the past.  This was used to create study groups made up of people that have different study styles and experiences to promote growth in your groups.  Here are the groups:

Group 1	Brooke Bertoldo (Leader)	Chandler Kendall	Eric Turner	Marcie Badham	Michael Hutchings
Group 2	Kaeley Haws (Leader)	Trevor Heath	Matt Mitsvotai	Jefferson McClain	Lizzie Hegstrom
Group 3	Dara Farnsworth (Leader)	Brady Schvaneveldt	Pam Smith	Fabrizio Cena	Landon Pliler
Group 4	Sam Ditto (Leader)	Maddie Bowen	Darren Gleason	Costner Henson	Megan McManama
Group 5	Spencer Kottcamp (Leader)	Kate Merriman	Kylie Neslen	Michael Anderson	Brandon Winters
Group 6	Ben Jones (Leader)	Kevin Anderson	Lauren Peterson	Makaelee Owens	JD Cook

Your assignment this week is as follows:

Step 1 (1 hour minimum)

·         Spend at least 1 hour with the members of your group doing something fun to get to know each other better.  You can do whatever you want as long as it includes social interaction.  I also want it to not be at the MTC or about teaching.  Go out and do something together.   

o   The group leader is in charge of getting everyone together and counseling with group members about what the activity is. 

Step 2 (30 min)

·         Read the scriptures together.  Read John 1 – Focusing on Writer’s intent, historical context, and any insights on how to make Christ more real and effectual in our lives.

·         Set a goal as a group related to the area purpose that you can keep each other accountable to the remainder of the semester.

Step 3 (30 seconds)

·         Each person in the group – email me briefly your thoughts on the direction we are taking as an area

·         Group leader – email me your group goal along with your brief thoughts of our area direction

Thanks everyone! Have a fantastic week! Please make sure that you blue sheet whatever time you spend together up to 90 min.  Have fun spending time together!  Can’t wait to see you when I get back!

Lisanne Murphy

Missionary Training Center – Training Coordinator

18M-138

MurphyLi@mtc.byu.edu

801-494-3382

June 22, 2015- Resurrect Christ in the Classroom

To Complete Assignment:

Email Lisanne and tell her what you learned from the training. 

Announcements:

• Area Party tomorrow!! Be sure to sign up for something. 
• 2 Intramural teams- 1 for softball and 1 for Men’s Ultimate Frisbee 
• Wednesday- Pickup 10:00am-1:45pm
• July 4th- missionaries are let out of class at 8:00pm
• MPS- STAY OUT of 1M this week. Dress to impress. Clean up. Wear suits all week. 
• Missionaries are still getting lost a pick up. Each zone should be figuring out how to direct missionaries to their classrooms.

I’m a Disciple

• Kate- I know a lot more than I understand in my life. My faith with christ is similar, shared Elder Oaks quote. I am a disciple of Jesus Christ because faith is a choice and I choose to be.
• Michael A.- It’s part of my personality to be impatient with myself, I love how the Savior is perfect patient with me. He works with me and helps me get better day by day.

Group Activity:

• Romans 1-4
• Discuss historical context
• Discuss writer’s intent
• Draw personal conclusions based on above discuss about your personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
• How many drops were spilled for me?

1. Write on the board the answer to the questions there. (question: How do we need to make Christ more central in our classroom?)

2. With a practice partner at your table, pick on you want to try.

3. Prep together- Each practice. 

4. Evaluate- What effect will center on Christ have on Missionary/Investigator conversion?

5. Set goals and make plans to teach. 

Board Question:

• How do we need to make Christ more central in our classroom?
• Use Christ examples from the New Testament in explain portions
• Take more obscure words and define them specifically referencing the Savior
• Be Christlike yourself, in and out of the classroom
• Focus on the role Jesus Christ plays as we teach in demos
• During Book of Mormon reads, identify the author/speakers witness of the Savior, testimony of the Atonement, and Christlike behavior
• Evaluate by using specific references to Jesus Christ and his teachings (from the scriptures)
• During fundamental DOC helping missionaries recognize their own need for Christ/also investigator’s needs
• Using BOM reads to personally understand Jesus as an individual; mortal and all
• Always reference the Doctrine of Christ in terms of the atonement
• Application portion- How is this going to help us be more like Christ or how can Christ help us accomplish this?
• Setting up practices where they can teach about Christ using the restoration without blowing their minds
• Teaching the PST Cycle as a means to use the atonement through the Doctrine of Christ
• Help missionaries turn to and Relate with the savior as they adjust to missionary life during the stress lesson.
• Fundamental overview, mentally thinking “How is this helping me and the missionaries to become more like the Savior?” Then mamboing giving the missionaries and yourself to apply the fundamental… i.e. Time for prayer, time to think about the sacrament, etc.
• MTC overview use all activities to help strengthen faith/love for Christ
• Answer Missionaries’ questions using examples of the savior rom the scriptures
• Pre-set the opening hymn for conversion (ex. “as we sing ‘I Believe in Christ’ analyze what you believe. Are you truly singing a prayer unto Heavenly Father?)
• Revelation through the BOM- Practice using the BOM to help someone understand who Christ is
• Personal testimony of and conversion to him
• When discerning or learning about an investigator, ask always “how can the atonement help this person?” “what does christ see in this person?"
• When helping a struggling missionary help them turn to the savor by reading His teaching from the scriptures… looking for personal revelation

How has your reading of these scriptures impacted how you’ve talked about Christ during this practice?

• Christ is driven into our heads but the Holy Ghost is the only one who can drive him into out hearts. With this Christ had been coming more and more into my heart.
• the more you help them conceptualize the atonement you will see them be more motivated

Invitation: Keep the resurrection going… 

June 15, 2015- Making Christ Special Again

To Complete Assignment: Email Lisanne what you learned/insights from the training below.

Announcements:

• July 4th- Missionaries need to leave your classroom by 8pm for something special happening from the MTC
• There have been complaints about teachers not letting missionaries go for clinical. BE sure to let the missionaries go to clinical.. it is ok to try and get them to have their appointment not during class time, but let them go if that’s the only appointment they have. 
• June 24th- if you are picking up that day- PICK UP is 10am-2pm!!! The first presidency message is at 2:00pm and they need to be released at 1:45pm, it will be in 19M. 
• Dressing appropriately- BE SURE YOU ARE DRESSING according to missionary standards. Whenever you’re in 1M you need to be in missionary attire.

I’m A Disciple

• Brady- Because- all that he’s given me. I serve him out of love and out of gratitude. I want to be  a disciple because I do love him.
• MaKaelee- I love him and I know that he love me. Through following him and loving him I feel I have had a greater purpose and peace in my life that I couldn’t find anywhere else. 

What did you learn from the prep?

What are you learning about your natural and fallen state?

• There is hope. The fall was a huge step to godhood and without it we would never become like God.
• I was listening to amazing grace and switching the words of the lines. Christ coming here was reversing the song.. he once saw but then was blind. 
• Alma 5:20- humbling towards the savior. 
• I’m always in a fallen state and dependent on Christ. Do I live my life that way? Am I too confident in my own abilities?
• I love the word fallen. In order to fall you have to be somewhere high first. We lived with Heavenly Father and we had to fall in order to climb higher.

We need to take common Jesus and make him uncommon.

We need to make special things special again.

For the rest of the semester we are going to focus on developing our intimate relationship with the Savior. We need to make him more central in everything.

We can’t help the missionaries focus on Christ if we aren’t focused on him.

Group Activity:

• Watch the Bible Project about Romans 1-4 on youtube, read it, answer the questions. 
• Romans 1-4
• Discuss historical context
• Discuss writer’s intent
• Draw personal conclusions based on above discuss about your personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

What are you learning?

• Don’t put what you read in a box
• It’s easy to take things and mold them what we want them to be. This helps to understand what the real meaning is.
• Why would Paul be writing to both groups at the same time? Apostles do that today, they speak to a certain group but it still has meaning for each of us.
• We should read with the intent to understand what the writer is trying to say 
• Understanding Paul and his point of view is helping to better understand his intent in the words or scriptures that he uses. 
• The apostles are teaching us through their experiences
• He finds his joy in the atonement and it causes his to use his time differently

What do you need to do to improve your own relationship with God?

• If I do the same things I will get the same result. I need to change up my day to day
• You can’t doubt Paul’s conversion, which is impressive because he didn’t walk with Christ. Reacquaint myself with mysteries. Maybe not treat my study as a needed boost.. search the mysteries of God instead.
• Don’t rely so much on past things. Start over each day and ask God what he wants from you TODAY.