The Miracle of Mending: Reaching Out to Less Actives
A broken and mended lamp illustrates how church members can be brought back into the fold.
By Lynn Harbertson
The
Littlest Missionaries
Does the member
missionary program really work?
By David Birley
Letters from our Missionaries
Boost the missionary spirit
in your ward with a newsletter sent to your full-time missionaries.
By
Peggy Proctor
Timing:
Why Now and Not 20-30-or 40 Years Ago?
There
is no miracle quite like that of conversion, no matter how long
or delayed the process.
By
Jilleen Mitchell
As
told to Peggy H. Proctor
Having
the Spirit as a Guide:Our Greatest Duty --- to Preach the Gospel
Throughout the ages the members of God's church
have been charged to do good, promote righteousness and teach the
principles of truth that they, as well as others, may obtain eternal
life.
By Peggy Proctor
Sergei's
Conversion
At first when the missionaries
in Russia saw him, they thought he was a vagrant, possibly drunk,
yet his story was an amazing, poignant one.
By Peggy Proctor
With
Just the Clothes on Our Backs
Few
people in this country have experienced the horror of Castro's Cuba.
For those who have, freedom is a blessing for which they will always
be grateful. Read of this brave family's quest for freedom and discovery
of the gospel.
By Peggy Proctor
My
Journey: Bientens for Maria Garrat
It
happened in 1956 when he was a missionary, but the experience
has the power to haunt him still.
by Larry
Day Ice-cream
Missionaries
At the age of 21, Helen owned a bakery in Oxford, Michigan, the
state of her birth, where she learned culinary arts from a Viennese
baker of some renown. When getting up in the middle of the night
to create loaves of bread became tiresome, she sold the business
and bought a millinery shop.
by
Anne Bradshaw
Having
a Great Day on Your Mission (Part
3)
If you want to have a great day,
be with your companion and build a relationship so strong that you
are one. “A new commandment I give unto you that ye love one
another . . . By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples”
(John 13:34–35). If you want to have a bad day, don’t
stay with your companion—every major problem happens when
missionaries are separated.
by Ed J. Pinegar
Planning
a Party, Planning a Baptism: All in a Day's Work for Missionaries
Missionaries
in the Czech Republic must do everything from speak at a moment’s
notice, help run a branch, organize a regional activity complete
with information about public transportation and more. Where do
19-year olds learn how to do this? There isn’t time in the
Missionary Training Center, that’s for sure.
By Cynthia
J. Rieben
What
If I Hadn't Said, "Please Come In..."
The story of Laura Garaycochea
As
told to Peggy Proctor
To
Better Serve In The Kingdom... Attain Gospel Knowledge
It’s
important to understand many doctrines, concepts, and teachings
that will help you be a better representative of our Savior, Jesus
Christ. If you study before you teach, your own testimony will grow,
and you will be a better instrument in the Lord’s hands to
help his
children understand, appreciate, and accept the gospel in their
lives.
by
Ed J. Pinegar
Being
Positive In All Things
On
missions or in everyday life it is a key to enjoying life.
by
Ed J. Pinegar
Having
a Great Day on Your Mission
Every
day can be a great day on your mission. You can choose to have a
great day on your mission because Heavenly Father and our Savior
will help you. You are responsible and accountable for your life.
The consequences and rewards are yours. And the Spirit will direct
you so you can have a great day today. So let’s get started
with how to do that.
by Ed J. Pinegar
Being
Continually Motivated As a Missionary...and as a Member of the Church
One of the most difficult things we
face as missionaries is staying motivated. This seems to be the
challenge throughout every mission in all the world.
by
Ed J. Pinegar
An
Attitude of Enthusiasm... The Spirit of God Within Us
Maintaining
a positive attitude is the magic key to missionary work. You can
be no better than your attitude, because attitude is part of your
perception.
by
Ed J. Pinegar
Communication
for Missionaries
Communication
is the key to relationships in life and especially as we serve the
Lord as missionaries. Until we learn to communicate, no one will
know our hearts, no one will know the love we have for them, and
no one will know us.
by
Ed J. Pinegar
We
Are All Missionaries
We are all missionaries...for good or ill. We are duty bound to
stand as a witnesses for our Savior.
by
Ed J. Pinegar
The
Lord's Disciples...Worthy to be instruments in the Lords hands
When conversion happens, it happens because the people’s hearts
are softened, and then they feel the Spirit, and then they’re
invited to make and keep commitments and they change.
By
Cindie Meincke and Peggy Proctor
The
Sunshine Club
A
story you won't soon forget.
By
Cindie Meincke and Peggy Proctor
The
Worth of a Soul
Never
has there been a time when the Lord has needed more disciples to
do His work.
by
Ed J. Pinegar
Defining
Spirit and Soul
Meridian
shares a mother's journey to conversion.
by Diane Tuck and Peggy Proctor
Award
Winning British LDS Photographer, Reg Wilkins: His Conversion Story
by
Anne Bradshaw
You
Are There: Friday Night in Rio De Janeiro, Looking for Inactive
Members
by
Geoffrey Biddulph
The
Vision, Purpose and Joy of Missionary Work
“We
must raise our sights, and get a vision of the magnitude and urgency
of this great missionary work.” —President Ezra Taft Benson
by Ed
J. Pinegar
The
Urgent Need for Senior Missionaries
There
are things that senior missionaries do that no one else is as qualified
to do.
by Ed J. Pinegar
How
Do You Explain a Conversion?
How do you explain how a person can
hold a long set of beliefs all of his life and then over a relatively
short period of time come to hold the exact opposite beliefs?
by Geoffrey Biddulph
How
a Virginia Stake Awakened its Member-Missionary Work
To
the surprise of some, 24 established leaders from the McLean II
Ward high priests group have cast aside any fears, stepped out of
their comfort zone and gone door to door to share the gospel in
the past year. Six more have committed to go. They've taken some
bold steps in that sometimes challenging assignment to be member-missionaries.
Meridian shares their experiences here in "thinking out of the box"
for any ideas it might yield for your own ward or stake.
by
Mark W. Cannon
Miracles
in Malaysia
The
year was 1994. My husband, Michael, and I were leading a worldly
lifestyle. After our visiting the church with my sister, two elders
were sent by the mission to our little historical town of Melaka
in Malaysia. We were wearied by the elders at first and even hid
from them, however, in no time, we became fast friends.
by Susan Seet
Are
Mormons Christians?
How
would you like to have a fireside in your stake where a 1,000 attended
and most of them are neighbors not of our faith? Here's some ideas
that worked with great success in Southern California.
by J. Cooper Johnson
We
Made a Prophecy Come True
After
losing her son and her marriage, the Gospel comes to an Australian
sister. She shares her conversion.
by Jenny Gabehart with Peggy Proctor
Whistling
in the Dark
As
the Nazi's were shutting down World War II Germany, Elder Normon
Seibold had the nearly impossible task of gathering up stranded
missionaries and getting them out of the country. How was he to
find them in the train stations?
by
Terry Bohle Montague
Conversion
Downunder—Thank
you Elder Park
I
was weeding the garden with the family, when our next door neighbor
called over the fence that her friend down the road just phoned
to warn that "the Mormons" were coming up the hill towards us!
by Richard Rothery
Led
by God
A
news anchor from China looked up the name of the Church in the yellow
pages asking if someone would bring her the Mormon bible.
by
Xin Yuan
Edited by Peggy Proctor
Three
Letters from a Missionary
The
following are excerpts from letters written during my mission, one
near the beginning, one at the middle, and one towards the end.
To me they are a portrait of change which I owe to our Father in
Heaven and the sacrifice of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
by Richard Gavin Bentley
Open
Doors, Open Hearts, Open Minds
Is
the worldwide growth of mandarin-speaking Chinese converts a coincidence,
or a gathering? In many cities like Melbourne, Australia, it is
as though the Lord’s hand is firmly being manifest in preparing
both a nation and its former inhabitants for a work, the magnitude
of which will astound us all.
by Brett Stringer
"I
Eat Missionaries for Lunch": Frank "Bunk" Robinson's Conversion
Missionaries
don't usually take so much time with one person nor are they in
one area very long, but the Lord knew the heart of this man and
sent a special missionary who chipped away with her chisel of light
at the dark misconceptions which surrounded him. As read Frank's
story, you can see how the hand of the Lord moved in his life to
bring him to the waters of baptism.
by Peggy Proctor
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