Polish Missionary
Recently, I had a BYU student reach out to me to serve as a mentor for him. He served his mission in Poland about a year and a half ago and wants to work for the church in self-reliance. As that is my job, he thought I might give him some great advice. Actually, I believe I received better advice from him then I gave him. Here’s what I learned from him:
During his mission in Poland, he helped set up and run self-reliance groups. He said they were very beneficial in bringing people into the church. After I shared some things about self-reliance, I asked him more about his experience as a missionary in Poland. Poland is next to Slovakia, and because Myranda will be serving there, I thought I might get some ideas of what he found beneficial as a missionary.
He stated that Elder Neil Anderson spoke to his mission while he was there and encouraged the missionaries to focus on the younger generation. He said some tools that they accessed to bring people in for gospel discussions were: self-reliance groups, English classes, ancestry, visiting high schools and colleges, as well as participating in Toastmasters groups.
With the schools, they would contact the administrators and see if the administrators would allow them to visit English classes to speak in English about America, the English language, and the church.
They would sometimes attend Toastmasters groups because the speeches at Toastmasters were in English. They could then help critique the speeches in English.
They would offer Toastmasters groups and school classes the opportunity to attend their English classes. They sometimes offered
to tutor people one on one for 30 minutes, and invite them to take an additional 15 minutes to hear a little about our beliefs regarding the church.
I’ve known that serving in Slovakia would be a completely different mission than serving in Brazil, 30 years ago. Meeting with him was so awesome! It was so fun to learn from him and think of how a missionary might approach people in a country that was recently communist and also somewhat distant from the church. Slovakia has only 280 members of the Church of Jesus Christ there at this point.
Another exciting event happened this week. Clark and his family took cookies to the homes of Mom, Greg, Becky, and Clint. As Clark arrived at Clint and Kim’s house after visiting us, he sent some photos and told us of the great things they have done. Clint and Kim spent hours recently cleaning their home. They also worked to keep the home clean. They said the children are finally starting to participate willingly and things are starting to feel much better there. I was so excited for them and wanted to share this with you. Here are some photos.
During his mission in Poland, he helped set up and run self-reliance groups. He said they were very beneficial in bringing people into the church. After I shared some things about self-reliance, I asked him more about his experience as a missionary in Poland. Poland is next to Slovakia, and because Myranda will be serving there, I thought I might get some ideas of what he found beneficial as a missionary.He stated that Elder Neil Anderson spoke to his mission while he was there and encouraged the missionaries to focus on the younger generation. He said some tools that they accessed to bring people in for gospel discussions were: self-reliance groups, English classes, ancestry, visiting high schools and colleges, as well as participating in Toastmasters groups.
With the schools, they would contact the administrators and see if the administrators would allow them to visit English classes to speak in English about America, the English language, and the church.
They would sometimes attend Toastmasters groups because the speeches at Toastmasters were in English. They could then help critique the speeches in English.
They would offer Toastmasters groups and school classes the opportunity to attend their English classes. They sometimes offered
to tutor people one on one for 30 minutes, and invite them to take an additional 15 minutes to hear a little about our beliefs regarding the church.
I’ve known that serving in Slovakia would be a completely different mission than serving in Brazil, 30 years ago. Meeting with him was so awesome! It was so fun to learn from him and think of how a missionary might approach people in a country that was recently communist and also somewhat distant from the church. Slovakia has only 280 members of the Church of Jesus Christ there at this point.
Another exciting event happened this week. Clark and his family took cookies to the homes of Mom, Greg, Becky, and Clint. As Clark arrived at Clint and Kim’s house after visiting us, he sent some photos and told us of the great things they have done. Clint and Kim spent hours recently cleaning their home. They also worked to keep the home clean. They said the children are finally starting to participate willingly and things are starting to feel much better there. I was so excited for them and wanted to share this with you. Here are some photos.
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