- Make a prayer list with the missionaries
- Make a list of LDS scriptures to incorporate in every day conversations
- Pray with the missionaries to find roads to tract where people are prepared
- Pray for specific people, for specific things
- Pray every day for a month for a missionary experience
- Pray for a date to have someone meet the missionaries
- Carry a prayer card with you and add names often
- Prepare a spiritual thought or LDS scripture and share it with a nonmember
- Memorize a LDS scripture per week to share on demand
- Pray daily to give away a copy of the Book of Mormon
- Memorize the Book of Mormon principle in the Standard Discussions
- Read the Book of Mormon every day, looking for missionary experiences
- Learn a basic First Discussion
- Say a LDS prayer with a nonmember (meal time)
- Study and memorize the Articles of Faith, share one per week with nonmembers
- Keep a spiritual thought in an envelope everywhere you go
- Do a Book of Mormon marking activity
- "A walk through the Book of Mormon" - personalize it so people won't think it's just another good book
- Practice steps from Elder Jay E. Jensen: There is a God, We are mortal and fallen (we need help), no unclean thing can dwell with Him, we die, we will be resurrected, there will be a judgment, Jesus is our only hope, prophets point the way.
Invite / Activities
- Invite friends to dinner with the missionaries
- Invite friends to church activities
- Invite your friends over when the missionaries are there
- Offer to have missionaries teach investigators in you home
- Invite another family to come to family activities and Family Home Evening
- Call and invite a less active member to a Quorum, Primary, Mutual, or Relief Society Activity
- Offer to hold a cottage meeting at your home
- Call and fellowship one of the investigators that the missionaries are working with
- Offer to help one of your friends to their genealogy at the genealogy center in the chapel
- Invite a friend to attend a baptismal service
- Invite a friend to attend a wedding reception held in the chapel
- Bring a friend to English class
- Choose your favorite church video and invite your friend to come over and watch it with you
- Take a friend on a trip to the temple
- If the phone rings during Family Home Evening, invite them over!
- Ask a friend if they've ever seen missionaries before
- Invite a friend to share their talents with you
- Invite friends to a missionary Sunday
- Invite a less active member over for dinner at your home
- Call an old friend
- Invite an acquaintance to play basketball at the church with the missionaries
- Highlight your favorite scriptures in the Book of Mormon and ask a friend to read them
- Ask a "Will you" question to invite one of your friends to participate in the church
- Invite a friend to attend church or a fireside with you
- Shovel the walks or mow the lawn of neighbors and perform other charitable acts
- Become sincerely interested in neighbors (i.e. Go to Little League Games, recitals, etc.)
- Organize a service project and invite friends to participate
- Have your children (if applicable) make missionary name tags and wear them to school (or to a friend's house) and explain
- Get to know someone's interests and plan appropriate activities
- Get to know all of your neighbors
- Share your talents with the community
- Do holiday lessons
- Tailgate/BBQ parties
- Tract with the missionaries
- Take the missionaries to visit friends
- Potluck Dinner with members and investigators
- Go caroling with church hymns
- Hold a movie night with proselyting videos
- Go on splits with the missionaries
- Meet your neighbor with a gift
- Joint service with the missionaries
- Organize a block party
- Do service with a friend for someone else
- Organize an activity to unify the ward/branch
- Decorate a jar of candies, or a box with some scriptures in it
- Make a snow sculpture of the temple in the front yard
- Fence building (service projects)
- Make family T-shirts
- Hold a potluck dinner with a spiritual thought afterwards
- Take a picture of your family in front of the temple. Put one up in your home and another in your wallet/purse to show your friends
Be An Example / Items to Give
- Love others, even the grouchy and mean. Be nice. Be warm. See others as God sees them. Be like Christ.
- Put a picture of the temple up in your home
- Share your testimony with your friends
- Keep a copy of the Book of Mormon where friends can see it
- Keep a Book of Mormon and a Bible in the car, at work, and everywhere else you go
- Sit with a nonmember or less active member at church
- Share your conversion story
- "I like my church because..." (Tie it into a related topic)
- Talk about Jesus Christ and ask questions to find out their beliefs and feelings
- Put a copy of the Book of Mormon on the coffee table (in a strange language to spark attention!)
- Politely decline alcohol, coffee or tea and then explain why
- Play a song from the Mormon Tabernacle Choir for a friend
- "What did you do this weekend?" Talk about a subject/feeling you had at church
- Mention missionaries in conversations with friends and family
- Ask a friend to write down all of their blessings and compare lists
- Talk about their heritage and talk about genealogy, help them learn more (
- Be an example of hard work and excellency in all that you do
- Don't stop people in your home when they begin looking at church materials
- Use religious words (i.e. "church", "missionary", "Bible", "Book of Mormon", etc)
- Talk about eternal friendship with one of your friends
- Share a child's missionary stories
- Put yourself in situations to share the gospel (scriptures laying out, etc)
- Share the history of the church (Legacy)
- Have a proclamation where people can see it (The Living Christ, Family)
- Share a scripture you read in the morning like you would a movie line (just relate it to something that happened)
- Ask a friend about his/her beliefs
- Carry a picture of your family and the temple close together and show it often
- Ask to see pictures of a fellow worker's family
- Make a transition in a conversation from family to church
- Talk about your own mission (if applicable)
- Ask someone if they've seen the temple
- Read from the Book of Mormon during your lunch break. Listen to church music when others are around
- Talk to someone on the Metro/Bus
- Share an uplifting scripture to someone who's having a rainy day.
- Put your picture and your testimony in a Book of Mormon and give it to a friend
- Write your testimony in a card and have the missionaries deliver it to a friend
- Give a friend a picture of your family, a temple, and a Proclamation of the Family
- Give a friend a Lamb of God card
- Include Lamb of God cards in cards for special occasions
- Give a copy of the Book of Mormon or a church video to a friend for a special occasion
- Give those around you articles from church literature that apply to their lives (Church News, Ensign, etc)
- Give church materials as "Thank You's" for service rendered
- Buy a friend a church magazine subscription
- Use creativity in making a note with an image of the church and a spiritual thought for the missionaries to give to one of their investigators
- Leave church material in waiting rooms/public areas
- Give away one copy of the Book of Mormon every two months
- Give away a pamphlet
- Give an animated video of a Book of Mormon story along with the Book of Mormon and invite to watch and read
- Send a family newsletter to nonmembers with a spiritual thought on it
- Bake cookies during family home evening and give to a nonmember
- Check up on those people to whom you have already given pamphlets
- Give your friends Mormon Ads to put in their homes
- Mail a Book of Mormon to a friend
- Wrap a Book of Mormon in gold wrapping paper and give it to a friend
- Make a treat and give it to a friend with a spiritual thought
- Give the Church's Internet addresses to a friend ( and
- Make a Book of Mormon kit (pamphlets and videos)
- Give a framed "Proclamation to the Family" at a baby shower or wedding
- Give a potted flower and relate it to Alma 32
- Give a friend a balloon with a scripture inside
- Give away a framed religious picture
- Give someone a tie and invite them to church
- When going out to eat, leave a tract or pamphlet with the tip
- Take advantage of the season (give holiday gifts, etc)
- Make and give out a package of different pamphlets about families
- Offer the Book of Mormon as a way to sleep better