Preach My Gospel - A Guide to Missionary Service

Preach My Gospel is a guide to missionary service that is published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for its full-time missionaries, Mission Presidents, Ward Missionaries and members. It replaces an old teaching format, which was called the Uniform System for Teaching the Gospel, and focuses more on teaching by the Spirit. Teaching by the Spirit means seeking guidance from the Holy Ghost to teach; the idea is that the teachings will be catered to each person who is seeking the truth through divine guidance. The belief is that God knows each of His children and can guide His servants to say and teach what is best for each individual.

However, the guide still contains material which should be actively taught. Chapter 3 of Preach My Gospel concisely describes all of the doctrine that the missionaries are to teach to those learning about the Church. The missionaries are responsible for knowing the doctrine and being continually preparing to teach it. They can choose the order that this material is taught to serve the needs of each individual. This is a change from the missionary discussions which were usually taught in order to each investigator."

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First Presidency Message
Introduction: How Can I Best Use Preach My Gospel?
Chapter 1: What Is My Purpose as a Missionary?
Chapter 2: How Do I Study Effectively and Prepare to Teach?
Chapter 3: What Do I Study and Teach?
Lesson 1: The Message of the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ
Lesson 2: The Plan of Salvation
Lesson 3: The Gospel of Jesus Christ
Lesson 4: The Commandments
Lesson 5: Laws and Ordinances
Chapter 4: How Do I Recognize and Understand the Spirit?
Chapter 5: What Is the Role of the Book of Mormon?
Chapter 6: How Do I Develop Christlike Attributes?
Chapter 7: How Can I Better Learn My Mission Language?
Chapter 8: How Do I Use Time Wisely?
Chapter 9: How Do I Find People to Teach?
Chapter 10: How Can I Improve My Teaching Skills?
Chapter 11: How Do I Help People Make and Keep Commitments?
Chapter 12: How Do I Prepare People for Baptism and Confirmation?
Chapter 13: How Do I Work with Stake and Ward Leaders?
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Missions — Proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ

. . . to every nation, kindred, tongue, and people.

An invitation to "come unto Christ" is the mission of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

"Therefore, go ye into all the world; and unto whatsoever place ye cannot go ye shall send, that the testimony may go from you into all the world unto every creature" (Doctrine and Covenants 84:62).

"The joys and blessings of serving a full-time mission are so personally sacred, they are hard to express adequately. Thirty-five years after I served my first mission, I received a letter from a family whom I had taught but did not baptize. The letter shared that their family of four little children whom I once knew now consisted of four temple marriages, three full-time missionaries, three bishops, a Relief Society president, and a dozen grandchildren maturing and developing in the gospel. You can well imagine the thrill and joy I received knowing that I had helped to find them and to teach them the gospel of Jesus Christ." — Elder Earl C. Tingey, April 1998 General Conference.

Shortly after the Church was organized in April 1830, the first formal missionary activity began. A brother of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Samuel H. Smith, traveled through neighboring towns in New York with copies of the newly published Book of Mormon.

Today there are over 52,000 missionaries serving in 348 missions (reported as of December 2007).

Each mission is an ecclesiastical unit of the Church in a designated geographic area and is presided over by a mission president who serves full-time for three years. Each missionary serves for up to two years. This service is voluntary with missionaries and their families generally pay the costs of serving.

Missionaries use the scriptures (Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, Pearl of Great Price) to teach persons interested in the Church. Missionaries also use a Church publication, "Preach my Gospel" to guide their efforts.

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Mormon missionary from Mesa lends aid in Chile

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The people of Talca, Chile, were literally tossed from their beds in the early hours of last Saturday as the 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck just 65 miles away.

Among those residents was a 19-year-old Mormon missionary from Mesa, Mark Roberts, who darted into the streets with his roommate in their pajamas and immediately began searching for survivors.

Roberts, a missionary from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, provided an interview to the church's news office, which in turn distributed it to the media.

In the interview, he described the streets of his neighborhood as flowing, as if someone was shaking a pot of water, with streetlight posts swinging back and forth.

"It was something that I can't really describe," Roberts told the interviewer. "There was so much power."

According to church interview, Roberts and his companion began knocking on the fragile doors of the adobe homes to check on neighbors, offering their help and prayers. In many of the homes, the quake had thrashed the furniture around, injuring residents and making it difficult to escape.

Roberts and his companion found a home where some furniture had fallen on a girl's head, he told the interviewer.

She was the first of many that the young men carried into the streets to find medical attention.

When the people of Talca heard through the radios that Concepción, a city southwest of Talca, had been severely damaged as well, they knew this earthquake was more than a scare, but was actually very serious.

Roberts told the interviewer that he and a group of volunteers headed to the center of the city where there was extensive damage to the 100-year-old homes.

Roberts said the streets were destroyed, and people were crawling out from under the rubble. "There was so much to do, like who do you help?" Roberts told the interviewer.

His group stumbled upon the home of a woman whom they had contacted earlier as a potential convert. As her family was trying to dig her out from underneath, they told the missionaries to just find any firemen they could because she was already dead. "That was really hard," Roberts told the interviewer.

There are 10 mission groups stationed throughout Chile, each responsible for 150-200 missionaries, both national and international, Mesa LDS Mission President Len Greer said in a statement.

Within hours of the earthquake, each mission president was contacted to report on the status of his missionaries.

Roberts was able to send an e-mail to his family in Mesa the day after the earthquake.

It said, "I am fine. Don't worry. Pray for the people here in Chile. We have been very blessed and are working hard here helping with the damage."

In times of natural disaster or trauma, foreign and local church officials and their missionaries must adjust to the situation at hand.

"Typical missionary challenges suddenly paled in comparison to the devastation now facing the Chilean people," Greer said.

Roberts said, "that's the life of a missionary: service, service, service. We're representatives of Christ here in Chile and that's what he would want us to do . . . that's the first thing that we could think of to do. How could we not help?"

According to Greer, all missions worldwide have the task of first locating all of their missionaries and making sure they're safe.

Secondly, local LDS churches are expected to offer any humanitarian aid necessary through the local supplies. If more is needed, it is requested from the center of the LDS Church in Salt Lake City.

Roberts said that before the earthquake hit, the people he has met there had already become like a second family. Even now, after the earthquake, Roberts told the church interviewer they aren't having any trouble finding food or water because everyone is doing all they can to support one another.

Alejandro Sanchez, Roberts' local mission leader, fed the missionaries lunch twice a week in his home. Now, with his home destroyed by the quake, the missionaries are feeding him lunch every day.

Roberts has been stationed in Chile since November.

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Hellow everybody! I'm back again!

Ooh, Hello my dears! Yeah, I'm back again, as you may know, in the previous post I wrote a short text confusing, sad, embarrassed, and so many other qualities that, bad, you know...

I'm love with yours aid of all my friends on this network. So Own site, Twitter, Orkut, how Ning, etc. I'm so gratefull for that support. Now I'm happy. I'm back to my real happiness, the same happiness when I was baptized in the true church of Christ, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I am so happy and glad that I write this text as a witness and that based on some scriptures that I quote and then over the words described here and that you know me, because I'm the guy in the photo above (scrawled a montage made by me). As you can see has a verse and chapter of the Book of Mormon, which particularly the text describes me and a song that I like (that I'll write the 3 Nephi 12.3-6 and put the song that if you wants hear it, you can!). So I'll start my big text, my better testimony:

I don't know how to start it, but, everything started when a few weeks ago, by reasons mandatory of citizen, I had to enlist in the military, far so good, but was confused, and decided to say I wanted to stay there, thinking that could help many people with this (one of my main purpose). As we know, the armies, help many people in humanitarian missions, as we saw in Haiti, and recently in Chile, today, I think otherwise (before, I had no choice)

And these few weeks have been very busy, so I couldn't write on the site, I had to away from some things that came to be almost a month without going to church (it hurt me a lot) were to "interview" for some reasons, them wanted me to stay in the armies, I published this on site, very sad.

On a Sunday before boarding the quarter, I thought a lot about going to church, as I repeatedly confused than I was going to do and knew it was necessary that I was there (the church), in the morning, two missionaries came (Master family) to my house to leave a message and say that was missing me and my family in the meetings, because a month ago, we were not going to church. This was a blessing to me, that was what led me to church that Sunday and that gave me strength to try to overcome my fears in the armies. Going through a day of training, I realized that there was not my turn to be sure. I started to pray to our Heavenly Father, asking him to get me out of there, thinking it was going was no longer possible, I lost my faith? Little, I guess. Even this, I keep praying all the time, trying to keep my faith. And in the second day of training (the worst to be honest), because it was a day that we have to learn about guns, I don't like guns.

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