WEEK # 46

MISSIONARY  WORK

"Perhaps the greatest reason for missionary work is to give the world its chance to hear and accept the gospel.  The scriptures are replete with commands and promises and calls and rewards for teaching the gospel.  I use the word command deliberately for it seems to be an insistent directive from which we, singly and collectively, cannot escape. .

"I wonder if we are doing all we can.  Are we complacent in our approach to teaching all the world?  We have been proselyting now for 144 years.  Are we prepared to lengthen our stride?  To enlarge our vision?"  (Spencer W. Kimball,  Ensign, Oct. 1974, pp. 4-5).

Questions and Activities

• What  is the role of missionary work in accomplishing God's purposes?
• Why has God commanded his Saints to spread the gospel?
• What special help and protection have been promised to missionaries?
• What blessings have been promised to those who faithfully share the gospel?
• Study some missionary experiences found in the scriptures (for example, Ammon, Aaron, Alma, Nephi).
• Record in your journal your feelings about missionary work.
• Share with your family the experiences you have had that have strengthened your testimony of missionary work.
• Set some specific goals that will help you be a more effective instrument in the Lord's hands.

Topical Guide

Conversion, Convert

Fellowshipping 

Gentiles

Israel, Mission of

Jesus Christ, Teaching Mode of

Mission of Early Saints

Mission of Latter-Day Saints

Missionary Work

Preaching, Preach

Warn, Warnings

Worth of Souls

Scriptures

Alma 17-23

Helaman 5, 10

D&C 11-12, 18, 33

Jonah 1-3

Luke 10:1-20

Acts 13

Articles of Faith 1:11

Bible Dictionary 

Conversion

Gentile

Jew

Other Sources

Gospel Principles, chapter 33

A Marvelous Work and a Wonder,  chapter 18

Jesus the Christ, chapter 21, pp. 328-33

Truth Restored, chapter 4