Energize Your Ward Missionary Work (Without Baptizing Anyone) By Zoë Holyoak - Oct 27, 2020 Image via churchofjesuschrist.org Missionary work can be intimidating and difficult, especially during COVID-19 restrictions. Often times, it is hard to see any success, and that has a tendency to dampen the mood and energy around ward missionary work. Because it is so easy to get discouraged, here are 8 ways to revamp and energize your ward missionary work without baptizing anyone. Create (and execute) a ward mission plan. A ward council meeting. If you haven’t been to a ward council then you probably didn’t even know that this was a thing. Believe it or not, every ward has a ward mission plan that the whole ward is supposed to know about and participate in. Ask your ward mission leader or a ward missionary about what the mission plan is and what you can do to help. Just because we are in a pandemic doesn’t mean that we can’t have and follow a ward mission plan. I have person...
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