September 24, 2014- Unlocking more seals of the Book of Mormon

Weekly Training Meeting

September 24, 2014

Announcements:

• Mark your fall semester review on the roll if you have had it already
• Mark your holiday/winter projections on the sheet behind the roll
• Workshops are officially canceled for this semester

Study: 

• Read John Welch talk Read Me (Groups of 4)
• What seals have you unlocked this summer?
• What seals need to be unlocked this semester?

Activity:

As you read do either the Study or Practice below

Study- 

locked/unlocked seals you came across? 

Practice-

locked/unlocked seals

teach someone about it

practice with investigator

Invitation:

• Read the Book of Mormon for 30 minutes a day
• Seek to unlock a specific seal this semester

September 17, 2014- Opening Training

Weekly Training Meeting

September 17, 2014

Announcements:

• Put your schedule in work scheduler (put shifts in as if they are putting week one over week two)
• Mark the roll if you have completed the past two trainings and done the assignments
• No Saturday shifts on general conference weekend
• Mission reunion- YOU MUST go to your shift on Friday unless you have an approved sub
• Go to dress and grooming website to look at it for boys and girls. This is for you and your missionaries. 
• Introduce yourself to someone you don’t know in the area/ everyone you don’t know in the area!!

From Regional conference last weekend-

“True worship promotes true conversion”

-Whitney Clayton

Group Study:

What does true worship look like?

(Class Insight)

• taking others with you, praying for them to receive revelation
• consecration
• self-sacrificing
• christ centered
• humble/ looking to God
• righteousness
• between us and God
• Understand true relationship with God
• Desire/willing
• obedience out of love, not duty
• Honoring covenants
• Serve only God (Moses 1:15)
• Come seeking guidance
• Love Jesus (Godhead)
• Active participation/thinking 
• Developing Christlike attributes
• Natures change because of experience
• Doesn’t take offense
• All heart, might, mind and strength 
• Leads to conversion
• Broken heart
• Being willing to sacrifice all we have (Widow’s mite)
• Apply the atonement
• singing the hymns
• Active participation/thinking
• work 
• Seek His face
• Think His thoughts
• Worship the Father
• Primary priority
• Complete adoration and reverence for deity
• Going with goals and plans for a change of heart

What does true worship NOT look like?

(Class Insight)

• Come to be seen
• Idolatry (Exodus 20:3-6)
• going through the motions
• sleeping
• On phone at church/texting/facebook/twitter/insta
• Obeying/worshiping without faith
• Pride/self focused
• Not removing yourself from unholy situations
• Self gratification
• Done for recognition from man 
• Try to become perfect by myself
• Only sacrificing that which is in abundance 
• Giving preconditioned responses
• serving 2 masters; lukewarm
• Gives a good gift grudgingly (Moroni 7:8)
• Non-doctrinal traditions
• Where is our heart when we worship?

Personal Study:

• Review invitations that were given at the end of summer
• Revelation through church attendance, journaling, Reading the Book of Mormon
• Be ready to be a part of training. Get involved. We teach each other and ourselves.

How do we worship? Do we worship in church/sacrament meeting?

How to Worship- Bruce R. McConkie 1971

Read Me

What are you learning about worship? About your own worship?

Is true worship something you do or something you are?

How can you get true worship?

Invitation:

• Prepare for sacrament weekly
• Consider how you need to improve your worship… DO IT!

August 14, 2014- Truth Reflects Upon Our Senses

Weekly Training Meeting

August 14, 2014

To Complete: Complete the Journaling/Reflections below and email Lisanne about what you learned.

Must have for this training:

• Journal
• Notes taken this summer
• Goals (past-summer, future-fall)
• Scriptures

Announcements:

• Schedule Exit interviews if you are leaving
• Sign up to watch Lisanne teach a district- you will get an email about it
• We are changing the afternoon time of training so look for the email of the new time
• First few weeks of fall semester make sure to sign up for a desk meeting with Lisanne
• Area Party- August 19th at 6:00pm at Rock Canyon Park (East Pavilion)

Reflect On What You Have Learned From The Summer

Study:

• Go to Journals and think of 2 questions to ask yourself to help you evaluate how you’ve used your time this summer. Write them at the top of your paper.

• Example: What roles has God played in my summer?

• Spend 20 minutes journaling about those questions. Anything you think about them and if you come up with more questions be sure to write them down. This is a free 20 minutes to journal about this, use your scriptures, goals, notes and anything else you would like.

Reflections on the Summer and what you learned about writing: 

(Class Insight)

• It was interesting how the spirit worked with me while I was writing. All of the good things I wrote down that I did, I felt as if I could have done better. The Spirit taught me so much I could have done as I wrote. It drove me to repent.
• This summer was tough for me. As I wrote God helped me to remember blessings that have come to be, good people, and the strength of the Spirit.
• I felt humbled. The thought came that my life is out of my control and I should let go and let God do his thing with it.
• I saw how God answers prayers.
• God remembers my goals. He used them and taught me by them. God gives according to desires.
• I failed at all my goals. But the Lord still did something with me. He helped me to form other goals and see things as they really are.
• This summer was about me needing being proactive. I had a lack of progress in this area.
• It made me ask myself, what do I care about? what don’t I care about? where do my actions need to be? I am able to be more honest with myself.
• Helped me to understand how kind God is. He showed me the things that I have grown on as opposed to only the things I haven’t. 
• God loves those who I love. He is aware of everyone. He does more for me than I am aware of.
• I saw the power of goals. 
• I learned the power of choice. I don’t need outside things to dictate my actions and how I feel. I can choose to feel happy no matter what is going on around me.

Does anyone see any patterns?

(Class Insight)

• It’s beneficial to reflect
• Planning- it’s important to plan even in our prayers
• Journaling helps us to see the hand of God
• We need to be agents
• Reflection and growth are correlated
• It helps us to be in touch with reality and what will be helping us with our Eternal Lives
• We receive what we are willing to receive
• Making a journal more of a reflection of the day as opposed to just writing down what I did can be very beneficial
• God’s Love
• I write the feelings of my heart in my journal and see how my feelings change
• If Nephi and Lehi were commanded to write their experiences down and then they were used as scriptures. They wrote as patriarchs writing in my journal as a “future patriarch” helped me to express things that I would want my future kids to know.- Generational writing

How much better would we understand the conversion process if we could actually see it in our lives- Journaling

Read:

Think of all that you have reflected on and what you just learned

9 Believe in God; believe that he is, and that he created all things, both in heaven and in earth; believe that he has all wisdom, and all power, both in heaven and in earth; believe that man doth not comprehend all the things which the Lord can comprehend.

10 And again, believe that ye must repent of your sins and forsake them, and humble yourselves before God; and ask in sincerity of heart that he would forgive you; and now, if you believe all these things see that ye do them.

11 And again I say unto you as I have said before, that as ye have come to the knowledge of the glory of God, or if ye have known of his goodness and have tasted of his love, and have received a remission of your sins, which causeth such exceedingly great joy in your souls, even so I would that ye should remember, and always retain in remembrance, the greatness of God, and your own nothingness, and his goodness and long-suffering towards you, unworthy creatures, and humble yourselves even in the depths of humility, calling on the name of the Lord daily, and standing steadfastly in the faith of that which is to come, which was spoken by the mouth of the angel.

12 And behold, I say unto you that if ye do this ye shall always rejoice, and be filled with the love of God, and always retain a remission of your sins; and ye shall grow in the knowledge of the glory of him that created you, or in the knowledge of that which is just and true.

-Mosiah 4:9-10

Wherefore What:

10 minutes to reflect in your journal again

Examples of things to reflect on:

• setting goals
• how can I have this experience on a daily basis?
• how can I make these verses a reality in my life?

What are you receiving?

(Class Insight)

• Journaling keeps me from going to bed mad. You feel more at peace with God.
• Through the process of reflection I have received answers. God is personal with me and willing to answer questions.
• Vulnerability
• Reflecting on my past helps me to see how I can move forward.
• Reflecting helps give me clarity of where I am and questions/things I need to study later
• It has helped me to receive motivation. God helps answer my prayers. Truth reflects upon our senses.. as we reflect.
• Writing is a commandment.
• God helps us change and know what to write… even if we think we are bad at it.
• Writing in my journal gives me hope, strength, and remembrance. 

Review the things you have written down today. Work on being an agent. Be open and ready for next semester. 

August 7, 2014- Book of Mormon Practice Review

Weekly Training Meeting

August 7, 2014

To Complete Assignment: Practice with another teacher or zone coordinator for at least an hour and write me an email about what was learned, what will change in your personal study, what will be implemented into the classroom.

Practice with the Book of Mormon 

Announcements:

- stop complaining about chairs 

- culture - remember why we are here...It's great that we are close, but remember to focus on missionaries 

- If you are leaving - get subs until Sept. 2 

-if you haven't told me when you are leaving, tell me, have an exit interview. 

- Next week will be last training - focus on journal writing and remembering this semester and preparing for future. 

- schedule 5 morning afternoon schedule

- picking up district 

- area party

HOW SHOULD WE USE THE BOM?

PRACTICE: 

- select 3 curriculum items you teach 

    - discover a way you can teach that item - leading the missionaries to their purpose through the Book of Mormon

- practice doing it with that partner

- goal: was the purpose fulfilled?

HOW SHOULD WE INTRODUCE THE BOM TO INVESTIGATORS? 

PRACTICE: 

- introduce BoM to investigator as last principle in lesson 1...

    - 5 min, 4 min, 3 min - cut the crap more each time

- 2 min - Eval using same questions in book from pg. 28

BIG PICTURE FOR THE CLASSROOM - Missionaries and investigators (10-15 min) 

PRACTICE: (5-7 min)

- introduce someone to the concepts of what needs to occur in the Book of Mormon reads at the MTC

- Plan out progression of activities

- Practice introducing one of the activities - demonstrate 

- goal: pg.103 first paragraph

WHAT EXPERIENCES SHOULD MISSIONARIES AND INVESTIGATORS HAVE IN THE BOM? 

PRACTICE:

- Facilitate insights and revelation for your partner (do not tell of concerns beforehand) LDS

1. Passages below or 6 min each...whichever comes first 

- 1 Nephi 1:10

- 1 Nephi 1:11-20 

- Switch Partners 

2. Passages below or 6 min each....whichever comes first 

- Helaman 15:1-8

- Helaman 15:9-17

- Facilitate insights and revelation for your partner (brief background of investigator shared) NM

3. Introduction to the BoM AND Passages below or 10 min each...whichever comes first

- 1 Nephi 1:1-10

- 1 Nephi 1:11-20 

4. Following up on a reading that wasn't done and reading it with them...wherever they are in the BoM 

- Mosiah 16

- Ether 3

EVALUATION:

- What doctrines were taught? What doctrines were understood?

- How did the BoM speak to you (through the spirit)? How did you speak to it? What changes need to be made here?

- What are you learning about HOW the Book of Mormon combined with the spirit is your most powerful resource in conversion? 

January 31, 2014- Facilitation Insights and Revelation Through the Book of Mormon for Others

Weekly Training Meeting

January 31, 2014

Upon completion of the assignment: Send Lisanne an email detailing what was learned in regards to the evaluation questions. Practices must be done with your zone coordinator.

Announcements:
- Area party success!!
- Send Lisanne reports from last training if you haven't already 
- No mock district, yes workshops in FALL 
- Be aware of all missionaries in area and help them with a culture of righteousness 

ACCOUNTABILITY:
- Journal writing...what does it have to do with the other 3 invitations?

INTRODUCTION AND FOCUS FOR THE TRAINING: 
- "We must sit back and let the Book of Mormon speak to us, instead of us to it." 
- "A man would get nearer to God by abiding by it's precepts, than by any other book" 
  - precept: a general rule intended to regulate behavior or thought
         - pg.19 PMG - True Doctrine Understood...

PRACTICE:
- Facilitate insights and revelation for your partner (do not tell of concerns beforehand) 
1. Passages below or 6 min each...whichever comes first 
- 1 Nephi 1:10- person A
- 1 Nephi 1:11-20- person B

1. Facilitate insights and revelation for your partner (brief background of investigator shared) - missionary/investigator
2. Following up on a reading that wasn't done and reading it with them...wherever they are in the Book of Mormon 
- Mosiah 16 - missionary A facilitates
- Ether 3 - missionary B facilitates 

EVALUATION:
- What doctrines were taught? What doctrines were understood?
- How did the Book of Mormon speak to you (through the spirit)? How did you speak to it? What changes need to be made here?
- What are you learning about HOW the Book of Mormon combined with the spirit is your most powerful resource in conversion? 

CONCLUSION:

- What was learned?

January 24, 2014- Pioneer Day!

Teachers of the Most Celestial Realm,

As you remember from weekly training last week, there will be weekly training but NOT during the normal times on Thursday as it is Pioneer Day!  Make sure you go see a parade or something to celebrate our heritage!

Announcements you need to be aware of:

·         Remember when you request a sub and sign the sub log, it is NOT valid until it has been approved by me.

·         AREA PARTY – Tuesday July 29^th  at 6:30pm (a flier will come out shortly)

WEEKLY TRAINING ASSIGNMENT:

Title:

·         Lessons in Ch. 3 across the Classroom and Zone Resource Shifts

Objective:

·         Understand the role the Zone Resource Shift and Classroom shifts play in helping missionaries understand the Lessons in ch. 3 of PMG.

Requirement:

·         Observe at least 90 min of the Lessons in Ch. 3 outline that you DO NOT TEACH

o   Classroom teachers – You should observe an evening Zone Resource shift of Doctrinal study and Daily Planning (if possible)

o   Zone Resource Teachers – You will observe a morning or afternoon classroom shift of Lessons in Ch. 3

·         You must have this completed by July 31 (The following Thursday when weekly training resumes)

·         To complete this assignment you must send me a 2-4 paragraph email with what was learned in regards to the suggested questions

Questions to Ponder:

·         What role does the Zone Resource teacher have in introducing the missionaries to each Lesson and beginning an understanding of the objective in the Lessons in Ch. 3 outline?

o   Hint: the first half of the objective is completed by the ZRT “Help Missionaries learn the lessons in Ch. 3…”

·         What role does the Classroom Teacher have in deepening the missionaries understanding of each lesson and completing the objective in the lessons in Ch. 3 outline?

o   Hint: “…and that teaching the doctrine by the Spirit will help meet the needs of investigators.”

o   Hint: This doesn’t mean the classroom teacher only teaches half the outline, the classroom teacher still teaches the whole outline.

·         How can you better prepare missionaries for the next shift when doctrine will be learned?

·         How can you better follow up with missionaries about what doctrine was learned in the last shift?

·         How do we help missionaries have more spiritual experiences with the doctrine in both the classroom and ZRT shifts?

·         What role does the Plan, Study, Teach Cycle play in learning doctrine for the missionaries?

·         What needs to be improved for missionaries to have a more productive Daily Planning Session?

·         How do your teacher log entries need to improve to better communicate between classroom teacher and ZRT to help missionaries have a more fluid experience at the MTC?

·         Anything else that you feel would be great to understand or learn about how we can more effectively help missionaries learn the lessons in Ch. 3?

Teachers! I am so excited for you to do this! Please let me know if you have any questions about this!  I will miss seeing you all this week!  Have a great week I am looking forward to seeing you! Remember weekly training resumes July 31.

Thank you for all that you do!  You are most wonderful!

July 17th, 2014- Salvation and Revelation in the Book of Mormon

Weekly Training Meeting

July 17th, 2014

To Complete Assignment: Send an email to Lisanne of your plan for the #2 practice.

Skills Missionaries need to use the BoM effectively:

(Class Insight)

• Receive Personal Insights
• Receive Personal Revelation
• Facilitate insights for others- members and non-members
• Facilitate revelation for others- members and non-members 
• 180 PMG- Introduce, Read and Apply passages
• Teach doctrine from the Book of Mormon (long and short passages)
• Introduce the Book of Mormon powerfully—Revelation through the Book of Mormon
• Teach People Not Lessons- Adjust, Inspired Questions, Discern- BoM
• Faith/Confidence in the power of the Book of Mormon
• Personal Study with others in mind
• Respond to objections 
• Keystone of Faith
• Book of Mormon and the Bible- supporting each other

Use the consider this bullet points on page 103 of PMG… consolidate the skills missionaries need, how can they fit into those bullet points?

Can you fit them all in? If you couldn’t fit it in then you shouldn’t teach it.

What did you learn from this?

(Class Insight)

• Instead of going straight to the doctrine, we go into to much detail. We should focus more on these 5 things and use the Book of Mormon to simplify things
• When using these they can understand the ‘why’ while they are working on the ‘how’
• Revelation is the thread between the 5 in green
• Focus lessons on Christ and you will see how much the Book of Mormon is focused on Christ

 

PMG page 89

Joseph Smith said, “Salvation cannot come without revelation”

BD-Revelation:

The English word revelation is translated from a Greek word apocalypse, meaning to make known or uncover. This is in contrast to apocrypha, which connotes covered or concealed. Divine revelation is one of the grandest concepts and principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ, for without it, man could not know of the things of God and could not be saved with any degree of salvation in the eternities. Continuous revelation from God to His Saints, through the Holy Ghost or by other means, such as visions, dreams, or visitations, makes possible daily guidance along true paths and leads the faithful soul to complete and eternal salvation in the celestial kingdom. The principle of gaining knowledge by revelation is the principle of salvation. It is the making known of divine truth by communication with the heavens and consists not only of revelation of the plan of salvation to the Lord’s prophets but also a confirmation in the hearts of the believers that the revelation to the prophets is true. It also consists of individual guidance for every person who seeks for it and follows the prescribed course of faith, repentance, and obedience to the gospel of Jesus Christ. “The Holy Ghost is a revelator,” said Joseph Smith, and “no man can receive the Holy Ghost without receiving revelations” (HC 6:58). Without revelation, all would be guesswork, darkness, and confusion.

Help missionaries receive revelation for themselves and others that will focus them on SALVATION and the salvation of their investigators through the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 

The things in green are progressional. You must be able to receive personal revelation before you can facilitate it for someone else. 

Practice: 

Big Picture Book of Mormon Reads

1. Introduce missionaries to the concept and progression of the Book of Mormon reads
2. Plan out progression of Book of Mormon with a companion for district

plan objective- 5 bullet points on page 103 PMG

skill that they need

1. Introduce one of the activities in the progression you planned

Evaluation:

Use these paragraphs as a guide for practices-

1st paragraph pg. 103 PMG

The Book of Mormon is powerful evidence of the divinity of Christ. It is also proof of the Restoration through the Prophet Joseph Smith. An essential part of conversion is receiving a witness front he Holy Ghost that the Book of Mormon is true. This testimony can lead to a deep and abiding faith in the power of the Book of Mormon during the conversion process. Have confidence that the Holy Ghost will testify to anyone who reads and ponders the Book of Mormon and asks God if it is true with a sincere heart, real intent, and faith in Christ. this witness of the Holy Ghost should be a central focus of your teaching. 

1st paragraph pg. 89 PMG

Joseph Smith said, “Salvation cannot come without revelation; it is in vain for anyone to minister without it.” You will succeed in your work as you learn to receive and follow personal revelation. Joseph Smith also taught that revelation is vital for your daily work: “This is the principle on which the government of heaven is conducted—by relation adapted to the circumstances in which the children of the kingdom are placed.”

Invitation:

• Write in your journal how you are seeing the mercies of the Lord through the Book of Mormon
• Use the Book of Mormon as a proper tool in the classroom
• Help missionaries use the Book of Mormon properly