February 5, 2015- Pamphlets to the MAX!!

Weekly Training Meeting

February 5, 2015

To Complete: Read through ALL of the pamphlets. Think of 5 new/creative ways to use the pamphlets then practice 2 of them with your ZC. Send Lisanne an email about your experience. 

Announcements: 

You can shake hands again! But keep hands clean!

Hosts aren’t taking missionaries all the way to classrooms, if there is something free in the zone then please go down and see if there are any missionaries that are lost in 18M then direct them to their classrooms

Look out for the email about west campus mock classrooms and events coming up

Pamphlets!!! Take care of this pack of pamphlets.. they are your very own to treasure and use to do practices/demos.

Class Thoughts:

How do we use pamphlet now? As teachers? As missionaries? Past and Present. 

• Hair protection
• Pictures
• I Don’t :(
• Glossary
• Back side for return dates
• Questions in back 
• As review or prep
• Missionary-pass along cards
• Warn them about what church would be like
• Missionaries 1st demo
• When I don’t know how to explain something
• Reminder of commitments
• Baptism date
• Pass along cards
• What pamphlets?
• To prep for practices and in demos
• Used to help simplify complicated mormon lingo
• For prayer teaching
• As a missionary… I didn’t
• OCM loved using pamphlets!
• Draw parallels
• Teach with pictures
• used definitions while teaching
• Invite inv. to read before coming back
• Have my missionaries study out of them to prepare to teach atonement and other principles
• Teacher people to pray
• In study occasionally
• Lessons in Chapter 3

Class 2

• Scripture study section
• Remind investigator of invitation
• USe them to teach doctrine
• Have investigators/missionaries look for the Atonement in every principle
• I don’t, but I want to 
• To level our kitchen table
• Using the Pictures as teaching tool
• As a visual
• For something the investigator can keen and study from
• Pray to know, how to pray box
• Church attendance (what to expect)
• Pamphlet tower
• Collect all 6!
• “Homework” of sorts for investigators 
• Additional Study
• Way of leaving contact info/invitation to learn more
• Placed in picture frame
• Use them to teach doctrine
• As a missionary… we used them a LOT it was our main source of teaching towards the end for our whole mission

• used the pictures as a way to diagnose 
• use pictures to help them make connections
• used to explain 
• used to define words

• When I remember- use to teach doctrine, how to pray, church attendance
• Left them behind as a commitment
• In demonstrations
• Tool for contacting
• Read before we come
• Teach to pray 
• Talk about church
• Definition lists to help know how to explain
• To practice asking questions
• No doctrine in their own words just pamphlet and questions

Let’s EXPLORE!

Think of anything and everything you could use these pamphlets for.. take 25 minutes read through the pamphlets and write ANY creative way that you can use pamphlets in the classroom to get us to awesome.

List 1:

• Use it as a ‘pacing’ tool to help missionaries understand how to ‘get through the whole lesson in one visit’
• Use in demoing a principle so they focus on what you want them to focus on and not “oh my gosh I’m gonna use that scripture every day”
• Use the pamphlets to teach investigators/missionaries how to study, read, look up key words, look up supporting scriptures, write thoughts about topic
• Establish expectation that missionaries use them in PI
• Help missionaries to get the central message (simplicity and power)

• Largest amount- bolded section with paragraph
• Medium Amount- Use little boxes as an overview of principles and also as a way to check understanding…
• Smallest Amount- Bold message at the bottom

• Teach the scriptural stories and parables shown in the pictures
• Quicker study tool for helping missionaries to understand what the lessons are
• Good for practicing a lot when you need a quick study in between
• Doctrinal study: use pamphlet and find scripture to support every statement of doctrine in the pamphlet
• Use book of pamphlet to guide PST
• Use as resources like scriptures: be super familiar with content so the spirit can direct the use
• Think of questions to ask about each paragraph or section 
• Use additional study in lessons in Chap 3: show a NY times video and have missionaries think and study: How would so and so feel if they understood these doctrines. 
• Use the questions and scriptures in the back to teach the principles while focusing on the pictures
• Look for promised blessings in Commandments to teach WILWFU
• Help the missionaries teach simply then expound with the scriptures 
• Help missionaries focus on the why and not the what 
• Invite investigators to do the additional study in the back and then follow up with them (helps them to learn how to study)
• Tool not crutch
• Talk about baptism early
• Read first few pages with district, kind of like a BOM read.. asking for thoughts and sharing insights as well as helping them effectively gather important info for lesson (i.e. making a lesson outline)

• Elder Bott/Helpworth in the District 2 did BOM read esque lessons but with the pamphlet all the time. Created much more of a role of the HG in C environment

• Pamphlet to teach/learn the doctrinal information, missionaries time can help them apply it
• Quicker study tool for helping missionaries to understand what the lessons are

• Good for practicing a lot when you need a quick study in between

• Have everyone present in the lesson take 10 minutes to study a principle and have everyone teach with missionaries guiding
• Church Prep
• Use the headings and front pictures of the 1st 3 lesson pamphlets to give missionaries/investigators a view of what our main message is
• Leave the next lessons pamphlets as an invitation in preparation for next lesson
• For TPNL- Have them take all pamphlets into a lesson and then find needs and pick a pamphlet to teach from
• Use pamphlets to help missionaries HELP. Let the pamphlet and spirit do the teaching
• Use the additional study questions and scripts to set up BOM reads and give demo of how BOM can help answer questions
• Help them see the importance of Rev through Prayer, scriptures and church by showing it’s in every pamphlet

List 2:

• Word Search
• Teach with yellow boxes
• Member visit questionnaire
• Cut out pictures, insert them in scriptures next to passage about it
• Give a member a page to teach from during lesson
• For an entire shift, the only resource is the pamphlet. For studying, teaching, everything
• Use the church section as not the best example of “why” church
• Have missionaries create their own footnotes (referencing the other pamphlets)
• Have investigator study it before the lesson

• have them prepare to teach a principle to the missionaries
• have them read through and write down questions or comments about each section
• have them pick a defined word from the back and underline it every time they see it in the pamphlet

• One sentence to condense each page, one sentence only
• Leave page with investigator, have them teach you next visit
• The missionaries use those instead of their notebook

• make the lesson plan in the margins of the pamphlet

• Have the missionaries write their own pamphlets based on their own understanding then, have them compare with actual pamphlets
• Have the investigator try to put the pictures in order? (kids?)
• Invite the missionaries to teach the DoC through the commandment pamphlets
• As part of planning, have missionaries go through pamphlets and make notations to personalize pamphlet info to needs (Inv.) and leave it with them to study on their own
• Use the list of terms in PI and in teaching lessons to help the missionaries and investigator understand complex terms
• Help them ponder the pictures more

• imagine themselves in the pictures
• who would they be

• Use only text boxes and headings to teach
• Cut up the pictures and turn them into a puzzle
• Use the blank space on the sacrament page for investigators to take notes in church or write questions
• Use the questions in additional study while you teach as inspired questions
• Teach the restoration from he pamphlet, but leave the gospel of Christ for them to study
• Teach WOW using Restoration Pamphlet or Chastity with PoS.. vise versa… 
• Cover pamphlet titles. Discuss and teach and ask questions just going off the covers

Why do we use the pamphlets? Why are they being pushed so hard right now?

Missionaries teaching right now is not on point. The brethren want to help, but have noticed that what they need is already out there, the pamphlets!! 

When missionaries use pamphlets more they talk less… leaving the investigator and the spirit to talk more.

The pamphlets allow us to focus on helping people. The missionaries don’t get caught up in the teaching, they have the pamphlet to help with that and they are they to do what they are supposed to, help the investigator. 

What are we taking away from this? 

Invitation:

Use some of the new/creative methods we discovered in your teaching this week (and weeks to come!)