Training / New Address

Elder Clinger and Elder Goodale August 26, 2010

Elder Goodale finally did send us his new address, as follows:

Elder Justin Goodale
900 NW A St.
Apt. A
Bentonville, AR 72712

And following is his e-mail from this past Monday (September 6, 2010).
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Dear Family,

     This has been an amazing week. We spent most of it in Tulsa, which has been incredible. They were training us on a new training system that the church is implementing. They are starting to teach this in the MTC in May of next year, so right now the leadership of all the missions in the world are getting trained on it so that when May comes all of the missions are caught up. All the Zone Leaders were in Tulsa last week getting the training, really it was like an extended Zone Leader Council, then all the District Leaders will be going down to Tulsa today and spending the week there. The whole thing is based on 8 new simplified lessons that the church will use to train missionaries from now on. They are designed to help us be better teachers, leave stronger commitments, and mainly to be more in tune with the Spirit. The 8 lessons that we are taught are:

 - The Doctrine of Christ - our missionary purpose
 - The Role of the Holy Ghost in Conversion
 - The Process of Receiving Revelation. (this one is divided into 3 lessons):
     - Revelation through Prayer
     - Revelation through the Book of Mormon
     - Revelation through Church Attendance
 - Teach People, Not Lessons
 - We Invite, They Commit, We Follow Up
 - How to Begin Teaching

It was amazing the principles we learned. It's all straight from Preach My Gospel, but presented in a way that makes us much more effective. Elder Bustamante and I only had a couple of days working in our area this week, but the few teaching opportunities we've had since being back we've put those things into practice with really amazing results. I'm so excited for this next week to really get all of this going! Unfortunately though, that's really all I have to report on because most of the week consisted of that training, but things are going great. I love you all!

Love,
Elder Goodale