When someone says, “Tell me about the Mormon Church,” as a general rule, we ought not to tell them what we like about our own church. We often give a doctrinal response—eternal families, modern prophets or scriptures. This makes sense to us because doctrine is the reason why we are in our church instead of in another. Doctrine over time becomes very important to converts, too. But it often i ...

When we meet people, we often find excuses to categorize them as “not interested” in religion and therefore not worth our effort to invite them to learn about the gospel. However, we’ve found many of these people are interested in religion and in fact have deep questions about it. Rather than trying to convince these people that they need our church or any church, we suggest asking them ques ...

In Preach My Gospel, missionaries are taught to start scripture study with questions so they can “liken all scriptures unto ” (1 Nephi 19:23-24). If it is good for missionaries to study this way, it is good for people learning the gospel to study this way.Start by asking your friends to come to lessons with a list of questions about religion to which they’ve not been able to find satisfactor ...

When we invite people to come to church with us, consider church attendance is one part of what we are really asking them to do.God’s commandment is to keep the Sabbath day holy.If we only invite people to church, they may not know how to keep the rest of the day holy. Before and after church services, they may engage in activities that are unholy, stunting their progress toward conversion.Long ...

A young woman named Susan Fulcher said to herself, “missionary work is just loving people, and it's easy to love!”Meet new people, and be curious. When she moved into a new ward in Cambridge, she made loving the members of that ward a top priority. She arrived early at church to meet new people. She asked these new friends many curious questions to discover what they do and wh ...