Mission President's seminar

Today I attended the Mission President's seminar with Daniel as the DTA wife and  this are the notes I took:   

Mission president Seminar:

As we started our meeting we went over the basic ordinances of the gospel: faith, repentance, baptism, receiving the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end. As families come to Church they need to have a better understanding of keeping the Sabbath day. Attend Church for starters. If members do come to Church, their testimonies will grow. Attending Church is the key.


Every member needs to take responsibility for their neighbor. Find out the second you see a person missing and find out why? Be proactive. We are the "Church" therefore we are not perfect. Talk to new people who you meet in Church and be a friend.


Teaching truly begins in the home. Family Home evenings, Prayer, and scripture study is a must! It will help keep families intact. D & C 20:37 think of what it means to have a broken heart and a contrite spirit?

Missionaries need all to be bilingual. There is a method for teaching that will help them learn English and that will open doors in the future.  Missionaries are the future of our Church. They all need to become self-reliant and dependent on the Lord.

Missionaries have one goal:  Helping people come to know Christ or hope in Christ. Understanding their purpose in life. The Robles family is a great example of what missionary work can do for people. Have people understand that they are loved. Missionaries bring peace to a soul. You are loved even when you don’t think you deserve to be loved. Believe in you when you didn’t believe in yourself. Missionary work is all about love.

Teaching and finding out those spiritual gifs. How do we know we are enduring to the end? One good indication is our Sunday attendance. By our fast offerings and our tithing and our temple attendance. Have a seat at the table. That is what it means to take the sacrament. We become part of His family. We take upon us His name. (Mosiah 4:3)  Our sins are forgiven.

Preparation begins at home: (Family, a proclamation to the world.) It is limitless all of what we can learn each time we read the book of Mormon. Elder Holland and Elder Bednar have read it more than 100 times and each time they capture something new. Elder Holland gives his marked copy away every 100 days but Elder Bednar keeps all his own copies. Each with a theme in mind. Each start with a brand new Book of Mormon as if they were reading it for the first time.