For ways to share your faith and experiences online and answer gospel questions asked by friends of other faiths, see “Ways to Share the Gospel” on the www.moregoodfoundation.org homepage. We’ve found that those around us who are curious about our faith want to know what we believe and how we live, but want to hear it from ordinary members of the Church first. Many are intimidated by the thought of going to the missionaries, or have perceptions of the “official” representatives of the Church that cause them to hesitate or hold back in asking what they might comfortably ask you or I. After a time or an introduction, they may be ready for the missionaries and to benefit even more from the official Church sites.

• If you’d like to post your own conversion story, please visit mormonbeliefs.org and follow the instructions there.
• If you’d like to add a scripture to your Facebook page, download the LDS Facebook application.

We need your voice!

There’s been a wave of prophetic feeling about the need to expedite the sharing of our story with the world. You may have heard Elder Ballard’s signature talks on using the New Media to enter the gospel conversation. (link). Even before that, President Hinckley opened the door to conversations with the media about our beliefs and history. And President Kimball spoke often about his vision of missionary work. I often think he saw our day. I’m impressed with these words of President Kimball:

What is the significance of the phrase “uttermost part of the earth”? Jesus had already covered the area known to the apostles. Was it the people in Judea? Or those in Samaria? Or the few millions in what is now America? Did he include the hundreds of thousands, or even millions, in Greece, Italy, around the Mediterranean, the inhabitants of central Europe? What did he mean? Or did he mean all the living people of all the world and those spirits assigned to this world to come in centuries ahead? Have we underestimated his language or its meaning? How can we be satisfied with 100,000 converts out of nearly four billion people in the world who need the gospel?

The way seems obvious now, but was it then? It’s the Internet. We’re a few keystrokes away from the rest of the world as we sit at our desks or text on our cell phones. Now is the time when our communities are literally without fences, and we can engage with others in real-time conversations. We just have to open the virtual doors. More Good Foundation provides a one-stop online tool for any faithful member of the Church: LDS.net. Join today. Please feel free to visit our other sites and to let us know if you’d like to join our team of bloggers or otherwise contribute to this amazing effort.

Help fulfill prophecy and our covenants to be a witness to all the world.

Posted on August 29th, 2008 by Candace Salima
Filed under: Blogging, Member Missionaries, Missionary Work, Online Missionary Work, The Words of Prophets & Apostles