Raising The Bar Even More?
#1
Posted 20 June 2012 - 04:40 PM
President George Q. Cannon
(Oct. 6, 1896, DW 53:610)
#2
Posted 20 June 2012 - 04:54 PM
When I was in America last year, however, a bishopric member in the ward I attended had just returned from a week away with the YM General Presidency, and he spoke about what had been discussed there missionary-wise. He had been told that the single greatest weakness with our current missionaries is that they lack personal experience. They know all about the gospel and have kept themselves clean, but, beyond that, they haven't really lived it. The new Duty to God is specifically meant to be helping us address this deficiency. Heaps of churches/religions teach their youth to avoid things which damage them. The genius of the Restored Gospel, however, goes far, far beyond avoiding sin. What we have works--reliably, consistently, and predictably.
#3
Posted 20 June 2012 - 05:04 PM
Edited by cinepro, 20 June 2012 - 05:06 PM.
In spite of the world's arguments against the historicity of the Flood, and despite the supposed lack of geologic evidence, we Latter-day Saints believe that Noah was an actual man, a prophet of God, who preached repentance and raised a voice of warning, built an ark, gathered his family and a host of animals onto the ark, and floated safely away as waters covered the entire earth. We are assured that these events actually occurred by the multiple testimonies of God's prophets.
The Flood and the Tower of Babel, by Donald W. Parry, assistant professor of Hebrew at BYU, Ensign, Jan 1998, 35
#4
Posted 20 June 2012 - 05:12 PM
cinepro, on 20 June 2012 - 05:04 PM, said:
oi, sorry to hear that
President George Q. Cannon
(Oct. 6, 1896, DW 53:610)
#5
Posted 20 June 2012 - 05:16 PM
Oscar Wilde
#6
Posted 20 June 2012 - 06:25 PM
Hamba Tuhan, on 20 June 2012 - 04:54 PM, said:
As is the changes in the MTC which is focusing on conversion. The means of study and application focuses on the basics to 1st convert the missionary. Meet the bar does not mean mean meeting personal spiritual understanding. That's a whole lot harder to measure.
With luv,
BD
UMW is a way of life.
#7
Posted 20 June 2012 - 06:55 PM
The church really needs better screening methods in my opinion.
#8
Posted 20 June 2012 - 07:51 PM
Edited by rpn, 21 June 2012 - 04:16 PM.
#9
Posted 20 June 2012 - 08:07 PM
rpn, on 20 June 2012 - 07:51 PM, said:
there are a couple of elders out here that I am a little concerned about, just interacting with them and reading their profiles on mormon.org, I hope that things turn out for them!
President George Q. Cannon
(Oct. 6, 1896, DW 53:610)
#10
Posted 20 June 2012 - 09:31 PM
#11
Posted 20 June 2012 - 09:42 PM
Second, we do need to teach our young boys and girls how to act in social situations; how to prepare to deal with a companion and their future mates. Some of the young men I have seen need remedial work on just simple social norms. Parents need to far more objective in evaluating their children and identifying how they can help them to turn their weaknesses into strengths and how to accept their own shortcomings. This is not easy and it does not happen with the efforts of one week.
Third, a young man that goes out with an improper mindset will quickly be overwhelmed by how difficult a mission really is. The reality is much worse than they could have imagined. Conversely, with a proper mindset a mission becomes only an experience and is not difficult, but is something taken one day at a time. Some of our young people seemed to miss learning the necessary qualities necessary to continue to act when the going is hard. They melt under the pressure of new experiences. Parents know when their children are having problems in this area and they should identify these types of issues and work with the child to learn to adapt and move forward even when it is tough.
Give me the young man with a testimony and yet remains a very rough stone and that boy will become a lion for the Lord. Much better he than the pampered pretty boy that has had an easy go of it his whole life and is not sure why he is going on a mission.
“When from Thy stern tutoring, I would quickly flee, turn me from my Tarshish to where is best for me. Help me in my Nineveh to serve with love and truth; not on a hillside posted, mid shade of gourd or booth. When my modest suffering seems so vexing, wrong, and sore, may I recall what freely flowed from each and every pore. Dear Lord of the Abba Cry, Help me in my duress to endure it well enough and to say, . . . 'Nevertheless.'” - Neal A. Maxwell
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