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Teaching by the Spirit 19 Feb 2003
Excerpted from " Call for generation of greatest missionaries"
From LDS Church News
February 1, 2003

The call to more effective missionary service is a call to better teaching. Teaching by the Spirit is at the core of this effort and is the responsibility of the full-time missionaries.
"Our purpose is to teach the message of the restored gospel in such a way as to allow the Spirit to direct both the missionaries and those being taught," continued the "Statement on Missionary Work."
"It is essential to learn the concepts of the standard missionary discussions, but these should not be taught by rote presentation. The missionary should feel free to use his own words as prompted by the Spirit. He should not give a memorized recitation, but speak from the heart in his own terms. He may depart from the order of the lessons, giving that which he is inspired to do, according to the interest and needs of the investigator. Speaking out of his own conviction and in his own words he should bear testimony of the truth of his teachings."
Speaking to faculty members of the Provo Missionary Training Center Jan. 12, about teaching more spiritually, President Boyd K. Packer, Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve, said, "This is one simple idea that we are trying to impress you with. It is subtle and so powerfully important. . . . The Spirit will be working with all the 60,000 missionaries out in the field. It isn't going to be easy, but it is going to be thrilling. You are going to be experiencing revelation and inspiration different from and more exciting than before. We are changing the world."
Also speaking to the instructors and leaders was Elder Richard G. Scott of the Quorum of the Twelve. "In order to accomplish goals never before reached we must do things never before done. . . . I believe that the message you are receiving comes from the Lord through a prophet, through his presidency through the Quorum of the Twelve, and you are blessed to be part of it. Listen and pray to be guided on what to do."
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