We hope that you find guidance, training, and inspiration as you seek to fulfil your callings and efforts to help Gather Israel on both sides of the veil. In addition to those items found at the church's website, we hope the information shared here will assist you as you seek for specific ways you have been called upon God to Minister to all of His Children.
Pathway Connect: PathwayConnect is a one-year, reduced-cost online program that prepares students to start or finish a degree. After Pathway Connect, students can apply their course credits toward a degree at BYU-Idaho Online. Contact Elder or Sister Fogelberg at 775.722.0508 or jim.fogelberg@mac.com or byupathway.lds.org
In addition to our prior efforts to find those members that Pathway may serve, we are seeking non-members as well. Particularly, those in Part-Member families. They can remain non-members and take advantage of the education opportunity to improve their lives spiritually and temporally. We are presenting information to the full-time missionaries throughout Northern Nevada regarding education opportunities for non-members and using it as a tool to spread the Gospel. Please consider in your Ward Councils, briefly, if there are any non-members in your Wards/Branches that would benefit from Pathway.
Come and See and Come and Help Look for ways you can invite your non member and less active to "Come and See" and "Come and Help" with service opportunities. Member and non member, active or inactive- all have the Spirit of Christ given into them to instill within each of us a natural desire to help in meaningful ways.
Self Reliance Classes
Come and See
Come and Help
Member Missionary Work
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We already know how... Choose each day how you will Share the Gospel in Normal & Natural</font color> Ways. The Lord already knows of your strengths and weaknesses and insecurities. He already knows how your friends will respond best to your example, your friendship and your invitations to Come and See. We invite you to pray daily to know how and with whom you will invite to learn more next. |
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We already know who... We are already surrounded by the specific people the Lord wants us to influence and invite to learn more about His gospel. We are surrounded by neighbors, ward members, co-workers, team mates, friends, and fellow classmates. As we continue to reach outside in the community we will draw others to us in the process. We need not look any farther than the people already around us. |
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We already know what to share - ourselves ... In many ways our talents and gifts have been given to us to place each of us in an opportunity to share the gospel. Our talents are natural ways we can share the light of the gospel with others thru music, athleticism, power in speaking, serving others in the community, and more. “There is a way for everyone ... to participate in this great work. We can each find a way to use our own particular talents and interests in support of the great work of filling the world with light and truth.” President Dieter F. Uchtdorf |
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“The greatest missionary work we will ever do will be in our homes. Our homes, quorums, and classes are part of the mission field. Our children and grandchildren are our most important investigators.” |
Especially for Youth
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The Book of Mormon: Keystone
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Elder Christofferson said members in wards and branches can be especially helpful to those that the missionaries are teaching who have difficulty reading for whatever reason. “Members can spend time reading with them or reading to them. This is a wonderful way to ‘minister to all,’ including those who are preparing for baptism.” |
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Boyd K. Packer declared, "True doctrine, understood, changes attitudes and behavior. The study of the doctrines of the gospel will improve behavior quicker than a study of behavior will improve behavior” |
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The aim of all gospel learning and teaching is to deepen our conversion and help us become more like Jesus Christ. For this reason, when we study the gospel, we’re not just looking for new information; we want to become a “new creature” |
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Just as print copies of the Book of Mormon are powerful tools in missionary work, the Book of Mormon app can also be effective for sharing the gospel. Church members are invited to consider how they might share the app with friends and family who might not be familiar with the Book of Mormon. Banners are available on the Church Facebook page, which members can use on their websites or blogs to let others know about the new app. |
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Ancient Prophets have risked their lives and prayed that this record may be preserved for our day — for me and for YOU! Read: Enos 1:15-18. |
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The Savior Jesus Christ also prayed and pronounced a blessing upon me and YOU — “...those who believe on the words of the prophets written in the Book of Mormon...” Read: 3 Nephi 19:28-29 |
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Pray to know the truth Read: Moroni 10:3-5 |
Staying on the Covenant Path
Convert Retention:
“There is absolutely no point in doing missionary work unless we hold on to the fruits of that effort. The two must be inseparable. ... Every convert is a great and serious responsibility” (“Find the Lambs, Feed the Sheep,” Ensign, May 1999, 108). Under the direction of the bishop, the ward council has first responsibility for strengthening new members and returning members. They make sure that new converts and returning members have friends, are nourished by the word of God, and receive callings and responsibilities. They may request that full-time missionaries help minister to and visit new members, returning members, and prospective elders. Preferably you will be paired with a member for such visits.” --President Gordon B. Hinckley
Every New Convert and Member of the Church Needs:
- A friend in the Church to whom he can constantly turn, who will walk beside him, who will answer his questions, who will understand his problems.
- An assignment. Activity is the genius of this Church. It is the process by which we grow. Faith and love for the Lord are like the muscle of my arm. If I use them, they grow stronger. If I put them in a sling, they become weaker. Every convert deserves a responsibility.
- Every convert must be ‘nourished by the good word of God’ (Moro. 6:4). It is imperative that he or she become affiliated with a priesthood quorum or the Relief Society, YW, YM or Primary.
Gathering on Both Sides of the Veil
“Temple and family history work is not a segmented, separate work, nor is missionary work. Rather, they both are integral to the all-inclusive work of salvation and the gathering of scattered Israel. Temple and family history work is a means of ministering to all of God’s children, including the “new and tender” Latter-day Saints—the youth and the newly baptized.” 
“Natural and Normal, Genuine and Authentic”
Elder Brent H. Nielson, a General Authority Seventy and executive director of the Missionary Department, underscored how missionary work is an integral part of ministering through temple and family history, with “natural and normal, genuine and authentic” conversations and questions being ways for members and missionaries to engage anyone.
Quoting President Nelson, he added: “People have an inborn desire to know something about their ancestors. ... Conversations flow easily when those who are drawn to speak with the missionaries are invited to talk about the people that they love.”
“All Means All”
Elder Kevin S. Hamilton, a General Authority Seventy and executive director of the Family History Department, introduced the meeting’s theme, “Ministering to All through Temple and Family History.”
“In this context,” he said, “all means all of Heavenly Father’s children—active and less-active members of the Church, children, youth, young single adults, and those not of our faith. All means literally all.”
He quoted President Russell M. Nelson’s teachings that the gathering of scattered Israel is “the greatest work on the earth” and that “anytime you do anything that helps anyone—on either side of the veil—take a step toward making covenants with God and receiving their essential baptismal and temple ordinances, you are helping to gather Israel. It is as simple as that.”
“The ordinances of the temple and the covenants you make there are key to strengthening your life, your marriage and family, and your ability to resist the attacks of the adversary. Your worship in the temple and your service there for your ancestors will bless you with increased personal revelation and peace and will fortify your commitment to stay on the covenant path,” said President Russell M. Nelson
Training
Tools & Resources
Stake Baptism Guidelines
Ward Mission Plan
Flood the Reno Stake with the Book of Mormon
Dear stake and ward leaders, In a recent training with Ward Missionary Correlation Committees, a stake initiative was introduced to flood the Reno Stake with the Book of Mormon. This is designed to be an opportunity to work in unity to bring others unto Christ. As part of this effort, we ask the following:
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| Promoting the Book of Mormon – Ideas: Please consider ways to help promote and personalize this effort in your wards. We invite all organizations in the ward, including the primary, to get involved in this effort. The ward missionary committee could consider the following: | |
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