What if you had a tool that could help you prepare for and get excited about your mission? What if you could take a book along with you that would teach, inspire, and motivate you to work hard and love your mission every day? Former MTC president Ed J. Pinegar has helped motivate thousands of missionaries to go forth and serve faithfully, and now his wit and wisdom is available in one handy volume. The Ultimate Missionary Companion discusses: The Purpose and Joy of Missionary Work, Preparing for a Mission, Gospel Knowledge, Continually Being Motivated, Using the Book of Mormon as the Key to Conversion, Teaching by the Spirit, The Mission After Your Mission, and much, much more! Whether you're just thinking about a mission, or are already in the field, The Ultimate Missionary Companion should never leave your side!
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ADVICE FROM A SEASONED TRAINER OF LDS MISSIONARIES,
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This review is from: The Ultimate Missionary Companion (Paperback)
Ed J. Pinegar (born 1935) is a retired dentist and long-time teacher of early-morning seminary and religion classes at Brigham Young University. He currently teaches at the Joseph Smith Academy in Nauvoo and has served as a mission president in England and at the Missionary Training Center in Provo, Utah. He has been a bishop and a stake president and is a temple sealer. His other books include Preparing For Your Mission (Workbook), Raising the Bar: Missionaries to Match the Message, Called to Serve Him, Lengthen Your Shuffle: A Guidebook for Senior Missionaries, etc.
Here are some quotations from the book: "Everyone says... 'All they do is call me up and say what are your numbers? And I feel like I'm just a machine out here turning in numbers.' And the only reason missionaries feel that way is because they don't understand what a number means. In the field, when you think of a number, think of it this way: Six first discussions." (Pg. 52) "If you're rooted to Christ you can stay motivated. When another door slams, you'll say, 'Great, let the door slam. That will really give me a blessing you know. Throw water on me, anything. I need the blessings.' And if you have that kind of positive attitude, you'll be marvelous." (Pg. 60) "Remember to start with positive labeling so your contact feels more inclined to listen to what you have to say. State on the street: 'Would you be so kind and friendly as to answer a few questions that could bring you happiness?'" (Pg. 95) "I'm sure you've heard of converts who left the Church as soon as 'their' missionaries were transferred. This doesn't happen when converts have come unto Christ, because coming unto Christ goes much deeper than simple friendship." (Pg. 113) "It is imperative that when investigators feel the Spirit ... we can ask them to make a commitment. The words you will use to help them to make those commitments are 'will you.' For example, 'Will you read the Book of Mormon? Will you pray about the Church?...' ... (P)eople change and are converted no faster than they make and keep those commitments." (Pg. 133-134) "Remember, life goes on after a 'no.' It's not the end of the world. Just keep loving them, serving them, and keep building up the kingdom." (Pg. 169)
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The L.D.S. Mormon Missionaries Listen to This to Learn, the Christian Listens to It to Understand and to Refute Them!,
By C-P Parker "Jerry Parker" (région de l'Abitibi, QC) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Ultimate Missionary Companion (Audio Cassette)
There is an abundant literature in the specialised Mormon book trade, and even in the commerce of other media, about missions. Some of it is directly relevant to the needs of the missionaries themselves for formation and for guidance "in the field". Ed J. Pinegar, who has long headed the L.D.S. Mormon cult's Missionary Training Center (in Provo, Utah) alone has produced quite a clutch of works, in print and in other media, to train, advise, and to counsel Mormon missionaries. This very set of audiocassettes of a title claiming as cited to be the unabridged text or an abridgement) of "The Ultimate Missionary Companion", also exists in its original book form of the same title (American Fork, Utah: Covenant Communications, 2001, ISBN 1-57734-830-3). Another such audiocassette resource, among others by this popular figure in L.D.S. missiology, is Pinegar's "Being a Missionary: 10 Different Talks in One Collection" (Covenant Communications 51995, a boxed set of 6 sound cassettes, bearing, as indicated on the plastic box, the ISBN 1-57734-038-8 ); that set of tapes, however, consists of individual discourses about L.D.S. Mormon missionary work and preparation therefore, unlike "The Ultimate Missionary Companion" (whether in audio or book form), which takes a more continuously (albeit somewhat loosely) methodical approach to the subject. When this review compares "The Ultimate Missionary Companion" to other literature on the subject, it does so more with works in book form than in audiovisual formats; however, there are many DVD and audiocassette publications on L.D.S. Mormonism from which to choose.
Richard T. Martin's "Dynamic Door Approaches: Fifty Successful Tracting and Telephone Dialogues for Missionaries" Bountiful, Utah: Horizon Publishers, 1998, ISBN 0-8829-0619-4) gives advice to L.D.S. Mormon missionaries on how to make their initial contacts with potential clients in door-to-door, telephone, and street proselytism. (There is an Amazon user's review, by the writer of these words, of Martin's book.) There is, of course, much more written and published by others of Pinegar's and Martin's heathen co-religionists to suit the needs of the L.D.S. cult's extensive and international mission outreach. The initial contact that many people all over the world have with members of the "Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" (or the first interaction with these folks when they happen to be in their "Mormon mode" of action and concerns) occurs through the door-to-door or "street proselytism" of a pair of such L.D.S. Mormon missionaries, such as those whom Pinegar himself trains; the ones who are likely to be at your door usually are two attractively earnest young men in their late teens or early twenties on periods of eighteen months or two years of mission which they undertake for their religious cult. Few Christians or others have a prior understanding of what the L.D.S. Mormon religion teaches and constitutes in the minds of these emissaries of the decidedly non-Christian (indeed, polytheistic) Mormon faith. Although this may seem like a peculiar observation, the highly acclaimed and popular film, "Latter Days" (available on DVD) and the printed novel of the same title, which T. Fabris adapted from C. Jay Cox' screenplay for that movie, portray L.D.S. Mormon missionaries and Mormonism itself quite realistically; the tension between the ideals of the young men, causing the need to live up to the L.D.S. cult's shiningly saintly image of itself, and their natural human foibles and ordinary interests and aspirations on a less exalted plain, correspond faithfully to what L.D.S. missionaries experience during their missionary endeavours and in more mundane, "off-duty" aspects of their lives. True to life, too, is the cult's relentlessly unforgiving, rigid refusal to help any young man who falls short in his personal morality to live up to the L.D.S. model of perfection, which is strong on scrupulosity but weak on compassion, that pushes many young L.D.S. members of particularly sensitive disposition to secrecy, despair, and/or revolt. Whether "Latter Days" is primarily a "gay film" or, rather, a motion picture treatment of L.D.S. Mormonism, is a matter that one could argue as much one way as the other. Something that soon impresses itself on a reader of books such those by Pinegar and Martin, or by other writers who undertake the spiritual and learning aspects of the training and guidance of L.D.S. missionaries, is to what a far extent the L.D.S. missionaries play upon feelings and emotions, their own and those of their clients, in conveying their Mormon religious opinions and views. Subjectivity on every level carries much more weight among L.D.S. Mormons than among Christians, whose beliefs, by contrast, are bolstered by the Bible's own historical and other documentary value, which has a wealth of objective evidence to justify and factually to authenticate the claims of Christianity. There is little such objective evidence to support L.D.S. Mormonism's claims for its own teachings and to vindicate the supposedly ancient origins of much of the ersatz "scriptures" (in the "Book of Mormon" and in the "Pearl of Great Price") from which such claims derive, hence the dependence on subjectivity as a means of impressing upon converts to Mormonism a conviction of whatever rightness they come to perceive in the cult's premises. Books like those of Pinegar and Martin, geared towards L.D.S. Mormons setting out on their missions, reveal how lush this resort to subjectivity is. Reading them critically helps a Christian reader to understand the mentality and ethos that pervade Mormonism from top to bottom. Since, along the way (although explicit tactics are not quite the overridingly primary concern in Pinegar's book that they are in Martin's), such books provide many of such missionary trainers' tips to L.D.S. proselytism for Mormon missionaries from which a Christian can benefit to detect, informed in advance, the Mormon missionaries' mindset and pagan piety, as well as their motivations and tactics. Mormon missionaries (indeed any L.D.S. Mormon who finds himself in situations in his daily life wherein he can find occasions to explain and propagate his beliefs) often use topics of current popular interest to launch into what they claim that their cult has to offer and what it believes, at least on a superficial level. (In dealing with clients for conversion, the L.D.S. missionary is unlikely to probe too soon the more bizarre depths of L.D.S. Mormonism's teachings, which can repel a client if he encounter such ideas head-on before the missionaries have readied him, along a gradual process, to consider them sympathetically, by which time they have desensitised the client to just how blatantly unchristian and unbiblical so much of L.D.S. Mormon teaching really is.) The missionaries also make resort to "polling" on topics to engage a potential client in conversation. (They resort to so many such "polls" that one only can wonder how real much of such polling is, apart from role-playing.) Martin's book is especially explicit in supplying L.D.S. missionaries with "prompts" for topical discussions and "polls". This emphasis on Mormonism's subjectivist leanings and agenda is not to deny that attempts to ground L.D.S. Mormonism in fact or precedent (archaeological, historical, etc.) exist. They do, and the literature of L.D.S. apologetics, exegesis, and presentation of whatever "intellectual and philosophical ramparts" that supposedly inhere in Mormonism, has become ever more increasingly sophisticated in recent decades. If a Christian who finds himself to be (from the Mormon missionary's standpoint) a "client" for conversion to the L.D.S. faith, has to deal with a L.D.S. Mormon who is well steeped in L.D.S. apologetics on such a sophisticated level, he would find a good guide to such L.D.S. intellectualism in a collection of essays titled "The New Mormon Challenge: Responding to the Latest Defenses of a Fast-Growing Movement", edited by Francis J. Beckwith, Carl Mosser, and Paul Owen (Zondervan, 2002). An older book from a L.D.S. point of view conveying more of what Christians might encounter in engaging in debate with L.D.S. Mormons on matters of doctrine, exegesis, and various controversies, simulates a clear-cut situation in which several Christians confront an unusually well-informed and quick-thinking pair of Mormons on their joint mission. This is A. Melvin McDonald's 1963 classic, "The Day of Defense" (Rev. Ed., Sounds of Zion, 1994, ISBN 1-886472-53-2). Reading this classic of L.D.S. Mormon apologetics, the Christian would have a clear idea of just how formidable the task of confronting Mormon claims can be; indeed, it is only a Christian who is exceptionally well grounded in his own faith and is very knowledgeable therein, with a keenly analytical mind, who should choose even to read a book like this one, whether or not he then proceeds to undertake debates on such a level as that which this book depicts, Mormons and Christians making stout arguments respectively in favour of and against Mormonism as they hotly and keenly contest one another. (Of course, McDonald presents Mormons, in the persons of two missionaries defending themselves, as the ultimate victors, against an array mostly of Christian clergymen of varying denominational allegiances.) As well as preparing oneself, by awareness of L.D.S. Mormon mission tactics and mindset ahead of the arrival of the cult's missionaries, one, of course, should proceed further to avail oneself of the wealth of printed and electronic resources, Mormon and counter-Mormon alike, that exist so abundantly to detail and to defend L.D.S. Mormon beliefs and claims, on the one hand, and to refute them, on the other. The classic resources to repugn Mormonism are the... Read more ›
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