Initiative Brain Storming

For the Missionaries in Frankfurt Germany Mission:

MLC Brainstorming regarding the initiatives-

• Book of Mormon
• Creative Finding – Find those that will actually read
• Prep the Book – Highlight key Scriptures and passages
• Don’t Give out Blank Copies
• Include testimonies as well
• Member Testimonies – Member appointment commitment
• Find out the Ward Goal and make it visual
• Put that many Books of Mormon in the Lobby
• Acts as a happy reminder to the members
• Combine Books of Mormon with quotes and QR Codes
• Use the Free Book Shelves in the city (But only if it’s legal)
• Reading Flash Mob with the members (JAE’s perchance?)
• Inspired language study activities – Study in a Public place (park, library, etc.)
• Street Displays
• Always keep a Book of Mormon in the hand
• Contact a Sunday School teacher and have a Sunday school Class on the Book of Mormon. Have the teacher commit the class to take a Book of Mormon and pass it out (Link up with the ward)
• Street Displays and Firesides
• Career Night
• Highlight talents or abilities in the District or ward
• Include nonmembers in Firesides. Find talents or life experiences in the community
• Use Street Displays to advertise firesides
• Make street displays consistent, if small
• Always invite the members
• Family History
• Learn how to use it yourself first!
• Visit the module on missionary.lds.org
• Visit your local genealogy center to get an introductory lesson
• Take time to get to know it even more
• Print your fan chart or old pictures of your relatives to show in Finding situations or appointments
• Set up a Family home Evening with family history. (Get the opinion leader JAE on board)
• Involve QR Codes
• Come together with people who already know how to do it (Genealogy or family history societies in the cities where you live)
• Indexing service project or Indexing party with the youth
• Plan ahead for an upcoming youth temple trip and talk to leaders beforehand to have a mutual activity on indexing and finding your own names to go to the temple with
• Mormon Messages
• QR Codes – Packet to carry around (forthcoming from Sis. Chard)
• Personal Advertising
• Patches, stickers, Buttons, etc.
• Member Appointments (Investigator and less-Active as well)
• Commitments – Share on Facebook
• Chain Emails
• Ward Activities
• Quotes and QR Codes
• Service Projects
• 48% of Street contacts consent to giving out personal information when asked to join in a service project
• Group up with other organizations
• Do a Street Display to advertise
• Go to the Stadthaus (Bürgeramt)
• Senior Home
• Animal Shelter
• Get as many people together as possible
• Talk to Business people (they’re oftentimes required by their companies to render service)
• Random acts of service
• Just do. Don’t ask.