Guidelines on how to help members get involved within 48 hours with those the missionaries are teaching

 

The following are guidelines that full-time missionaries are to follow when communicating to the ward or branch mission leader within hours of identifying a sincerely interested person to teach.

MISSIONARIES TO REPORT

Name and Contact Information of Those Being Taught: 

Background:

1. How found:  Member referral?   Media referral? Personal contact?   Contacted Us?
2. Family:   Single? Spouse’s name? Children’s ages? 
3. Occupation or other Interests: 
4. Needs:   Employment?    Self-Reliance?   Professional counselling?   Temporal assistance?
5. Member friends: Who in the ward do they already know and how?
6. Gospel truths of most interest: Restoration? Book of Mormon? Revelation? Prophets? Other?

MEMBERS TO RESPOND

Ward or branch mission leader is to take the above information and as soon as possible assign individuals or families in his ward or branch (“members”) to assist in the fellowshipping of the new person being taught (“new friend”) in one or several of the following ways:

Members Respond within the first 48 hours:

1. Member(s) to attend next lesson with missionaries; Who assigned:
2. Member(s) to invite new friends to their home for a social; Who assigned:
3. Member(s) to introduce new friends to Family History or tour Visitors Center; Who assigned:
4. Member(s) to invite new friends to attend Church with them; Who assigned:
5. Member(s) or Leader(s) to help new friends with needs #4 listed above; Who assigned:
6. Member(s) to pray for new friends; Who assigned: