Monday Morning

Every Monday morning my alarm rings at 5:50AM. I jump out of bed with a smile on my face and get ready for my 7AM meeting with my Assistants at the Mission Office.

In this meeting we review the weekly results of the mission. Our goal as a mission is to invite many to come unto Christ and to adopt a new way of living that will provide purpose, clarity and deep joy in their lives. We invite people to have faith in Jesus Christ and to come into complete alignment with Christ's teachings. As missionaries, we are teachers. Most 19 and 20 year olds don't have much experience in teaching -- especially about the deep and important things of life. One of our greatest responsibilities as mission leaders is that of helping our missionaries become better teachers. This is how we always approach our Monday morning meeting.

Elders Staheli and Steele, Assistants to the President

Last year we created a powerful internal website that allows us to review the progress of the mission. We are able to analyze numbers "six ways from Sunday". Our Office Elders (Elders Hymas and Nelson) come into the office at 6AM to get the reports ready. At 7AM the Assistants (Elders Staheli and Steele), Elder Hymas and I have a prayer and then review the weekly results. We study the progress of every companionship in the mission (about 70 companionships). We review last week's results and compare them to the prior 4-5 weeks. We look for opportunities to strengthen our missionaries through customized training at District Meetings, Zone Conferences and exchanges.

Elder Hymas (left) and Elder Nelson, Office Elders

Around 7:40AM I make phone calls to each of our sets of Zone Leaders. We have 6 sets of Zone Leaders. They are each responsible for 20-30 missionaries. In these calls we discuss their view of how the past week went. I provide encouragement and ideas for improvement. Each call lasts 10-15 minutes.

We typically get done with our Monday morning meeting around 8:45AM. We all have a great view of how the work is going, we've talk to the entire leadership team of the mission and we're ready to have another great week.

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