Good Bye to E/S Gibson

We love and we will miss you!

Elder/Sister Gibson - we'll see each other again!!

Welcome home for family Gibsons

Mission Impressions from Interviews

One kind of marking system in the scriptures.


How to use Preach My Gospel...

Mission Leadership Council, August 2, 2013

Long ago the great teachers found that people learn best when they are asked instead of simply told. Elder Bednar repeated it in "Truths are better caught, than taught!" Questions are a summons to learning. A question is a challenge, the beginning of a quest - positive "green" stress! In the words of Aristotle, "All men by nature desire to know."
In D&C 50:13 the Lord says, "I the Lord ask you this question..." Dennis Rasmussen, a former BYU Professor, once said, "To most questions man wants to have an answer. But to the Lord's question man must BE an answer." ["Where art Thou?" & "Where goest Thou?"]
Only by responding do I learn to be responsible; only by responding do I learn to care about something beyond myself.
With that in mind, having learned for myself first, I'll be able to ask questions in the fulfillment of my calling as a missionary.

It is worth great effort to carefully craft questions during lesson preparation that will lead to understanding and engage the minds and hearts of investigators as they learn.
Teachers should strive to prepare and ask questions that stimulate thinking and feeling; open questions that cannot be answered with a simple “Yes” or “No”.
Teachers should also avoid questions that could spark controversy as this may frustrate both, the teacher and the learner [3 Nephi 11:29].
When asking, it is important for teachers to give tie to think about responses. Sometimes we ask a question, pause for a second of two, and the when no one immediately responds, panic and give the answer themselves. Give time and repeat if necessary!
Some questions encouraged the Lord’s listeners to think and to refer to the scriptures for answers [always to the standards or source or roots], such as when He asked, “What is written in the law? How readest thou?” [Luke 10:26]. Others were intended to invite commitment, as when He asked, “What manner of men ought ye to be?” [3 Nephi 27:27].
There are four general types of questions in gospel learning and teaching:
1.    Questions that invite to search for information.
2.    Questions that lead to analyze for understanding.
3.    Questions that invite feelings and testimony.
4.    Questions that encourage application.

MLC Berlin 08-13

III. Quarter Interviews in August - Visit of 34 District Meetings in total [first week - six districts]

We reemphasize in the interviews the necessity of writing in a personal Study Journal. As Nephi said, "I write the things of my soul," [2 Nephi 4:15], we take care and recognize and write down the insights, ideas, new questions, and, especially, the promptings we receive. 

Also Sister Kosak teaches the doctrine of Repentance. 

In our Summer Teaching Initiative we want to become better teachers, the question is asked,

"What can and should I do as a teacher to more effectively represent and serve the Lord?"

DM Frankfurt/Oder

DM Marzahn

DM Chemnitz

DM Zwickau

DM Leipzig

DM Groitzsch

Missionary Couple teaches Summer Institute in Oldenburg July 2013

Summer Teaching Initiative

Elder Wolfgang Paul, former member of the Second Quorum of the Seventy, now with his wife Helga missionary couple in the district Oldenburg teaches Summer Institute outside of the branch building.

Welcome New Missionaries July 2013

Safely Arrived July 24, 2013 - Pioneer Day

Elder/Sister Mickelsen [former President Russia Novosibirsk Mission]

Elders Bendixen and Thorley

Elders Cannon and Lloyd

Elders Dryden and Carpenter

Elders Roberts and Carpowitz

Elders Smith and Peterson

Sisters Cluff and Stuart

Sisters Darrington and Rasmussen

Sisters Diederich and Tolman

Sisters Jardine and Stringham

Sisters Lartey and Turner

Sisters Nilson and Shelley

Sisters Veselka and Rimmasch

Sisters Wallin and Knecht

Sisters Woodward and Schwantes

July 2013 Missionaries finish their Mission

 First Row: Sisters Gibson, Thornton, Kosak, Holbrook

Second Row: Elders Gibson, M. Duncan, Tolbert, Kosak

Third Row: Elders Reeve, Frenkel, Hadfield

Good Bye - we love you.

Sisters Noyes visit former mission field

Mission Pictures July 2013

District Goerlitz

District Lauenburg

Apartment Visits with Lueneburg Sisters

Sudden evening apartment visit Osnabrueck Elders - WONDERFUL!

Visit of Osnabrueck Sisters - WONDERFUL apartment!

SUMMER TEACHING INITIATIVE Zone Training Meetings July 2013

ZTM Dresden

Dresden - Assitants are teaching

ZTM Leipzig

Role Plays in Leipzig

Training to Teach Simply and Effectively

Summer Leadership Training in Hamburg and Berlin - July 2013 [Teaching & Leadership Skills]

With Permission by Painter Clark Kelley Price, "It's True Sir-All Present and Accounted For"

http://www.clarkkelleyprice.com/gallery.php?s=account+for

Assistants teaching Zone and District Leaders and Sister Training Leaders in Hamburg

Leadership in Hamburg

Assistants teaching Zone and District Leaders and Sister Training Leaders in Berlin

Leadership in Berlin