Master Teaching and Pictures from MLC

Missionaries of the Great Texas Houston Mission,

We had some wonderful experiences this week in MLC as well as our Zone Meetings. We love your energy and your commitment to do the Lord's work in the Lord's way. We introduced a concept of the Master Teacher last week. We hope this approach will cause you to reflect upon the way you have been teaching to better align your teaching approach with the principles taught in PMG Ch 10 (specifically the suggestions beginning on p183 related to "Asking Questions"). 

We hope you will practice Master Teaching with member families more diligently during member meals to help them commit to goals that they feel comfortable with so that they can find joy in the work. Remember to follow up!

We invite you each to practice teaching all of the lessons in a more Master Teacher-like approach as well and watch how much more powerful the Spirit is in the lessons. With this in mind, we will begin spending more time at Zone Conference roll playing to practice this approach. In the upcoming Zone Conference we will focus on teaching the Restoration (Lesson 1). We will invite one companionship at each conference (randomly selected) to demonstrate Master Teaching a few of the principles in Lesson 1 and then we will break out into groups to practice, evaluate and re-practice. Please come prepared! 

Teaching in the Lord's way requires much more preparation. With this in mind, we would also like each companionship to prepare two five-minute talks (one each) before Zone Conference. For those of you in threesomes, two of you pick the same one. The topics to choose from will be "God is our Loving Heavenly Father" and "The Great Apostasy". Two of you will be selected to give these talks (not teach the lesson) during Zone Conference. Please practice them and keep them to 5 minutes. 

Because of your great faith (manifest through your increased collective obedience) as well as your commitment to 25 ITLs each day, baptisms are on the rise in our mission! In the words of Ammon, "Blessed be the name of our God; let us sing to his praise, yea, let us give thanks to his holy name, for he doth work righteousness forever." (Alma 26:8)

We love you!

President and Sister Mortensen

Role playing

Zone Meeting with the Spring Zone