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Becoming a Missionary: Embracing Spiritual Growth and Service

Explore the journey of becoming a missionary by aligning with missionary practices, avoiding worldly influences, and responding to spiritual promptings. Discover how to serve weekly, grow in confidence, and use God-given skills to share Christ's message. Engage with Book of Mormon evidences, historical references, and the transformative power of missionary work. Join the quest to find the Savior in the narrative of Alma 17.

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Becoming a Missionary: Embracing Spiritual Growth and Service

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  1. Alma 17

  2. Alma 17:1-3 “You can begin to think as missionaries think, to read what missionaries read, to pray as missionaries pray, and to feel what missionaries feel. You can avoid the worldly influences that cause the Holy Ghost to withdraw, and you can grow in confidence in recognizing and responding to spiritual promptings and gradually become the missionary you hope to be and the missionary the Savior expects. …” (Elder Bednar, October 2005 General Conference).

  3. There are two types of missionaries….

  4. Mormon Message: Inviting all to come unto Christ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynVgDWKWHtU

  5. Alma 17 • Which missionary rule most often results in teaching people? • Weekly service • Alma 17:20-25. • Alma 17:26-29 • Why is he so excited that the Lamanites have stolen the sheep? • What skills do you have that God can use??? • Did your siblings use any of their skills on their missions? Matt5:14-16.

  6. Book of Mormon Evidences Alma 17 Cutting off Arms

  7. Book of Mormon Evidences In Mexico's National Palace, artist Diego Rivera’s murals show what looks to be a tattooed prostitute tempting warriors who are displaying gifts in hopes of pleasing her.  One warrior is displaying the arm of a white man whom he likely defeated in battle. 

  8. Book of Mormon Evidences

  9. Book of Mormon Evidences Another painting (Popol Vuh ) reports a fight between hero twins, Hunahpu and Xbalanque, and the god Seven Macaw. Hidden in a tree, one of the twins, Hunahpu, shoots at Seven Macaw with his blowgun and misses. As the twin seeks to escape, Seven Macaw twists and tears an arm off Hunahpu's body and then returns home to hang up the arm of Hunahpu as a token of his victory.

  10. The Art of War in Mesoamerica Macuahuitl (maca wee tee) “There were two-handed swords set with flint blades that cut much better than our swords.” Morrison, Journals of Christopher Columbus, p. 327. Diaz, Conquest of New Spain, p. 142-3, 145, 158, 228.

  11. The Art of War in Mesoamerica Pedro de Morón, a famous horseman, charged with three other horsemen into the ranks of the Native Indians. They wounded him badly, and then they slashed at the mare, and cut her head off at the neck so that it hung by the skin, and she fell dead.” Bernal  Díaz del Castillo, ca.1568. In Genaro Garcia, The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico 1517-1521. Florentine Codex, IX

  12. Alma 17 Let’s look for the Savior in this story…

  13. Alma 17

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