Attending
- Elder Clark G. Gilbert of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
- Elder Jorge T. Becerra of the Seventy
- Elder Judd - Utah Area Seventy
Experience
Elder Judd, Becerra and Gilbert shook everyone’s hands at the beginning of the training. It made me think about how the Savior reaches “the one”.
My takeaways
- I was excited to see all the people who would be attending from the ward council. No one else I’d rather serve with.
- We don’t need assignments to visit people, neighbors; Joseph Smith quote about a man or woman with the spirit wants to bless the whole human race:
“A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race.” – Joseph Smith
Some thoughts I’d like to implement for myself
- daily meditation about lessons learned during the day - journaling at night
- keep area leadership card with my scriptures, study material
Elder Becerra taught about discipleship study, ordinances
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lifelong discipleship is our goal
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weird thought I had - what if God was an investor in us - each of us is a “stock”
Elder Gilbert
Do you teach truth with love?
- Avoid overly contentious settings
- Love others - find common ground first
- Be a light - stand for truth yourself; minister; point them back to Jesus Christ
- Hold to truth
- Stay anchored to Jesus Christ; stay where you are - at the tree (Sister Runia); live in your covenants
Second meeting with ward councils
Discipleship
- increased belonging - welcome, followup with everyone
- increase on focus on the sacrament - “We will now prepare to participate in the ordinance of the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper”.
- Increased joy - music (sing), smile
- Meetings Christ Centered - 2 Nephi 25:26
- Youth and Children - FSY counseling with them, come folow me daily @ home
Faith - perhaps before we worry about if we will have a sacrament meeting with Hallelujahs and Amens, maybe we can start with everyone singing the songs of the gospel
Elder Becerra - “For the LDS, every week is Holy Week”
As a presiding leader, always ensure the meeting has a witness of Christ
Involve youth to teach each other - youth will always get more out of it
D&C 58: 26-28, 107:
When God Looks down we all look about as capable
Get the youth to work?
None of us are good enough without Chrit’s grace
Elder Uchtdorf - “The what informs, the why transforms”
Apostolic blessing
- Greater conduit of Christ
- See him work through me
How do we keep this training in our meetings, councils?