5 ways to share the gospel online at Christmas time.

5. Send an E-card

 The following E-cards are available to be sent to friends (for Free) from Mormon.org/Christmas. Or you could pin them on Pinterest!

4. Share the Mormon messages video on the true meaning of Christmas. Place it on your facebook, google+ or tweet it out. In my opinion, this is one of the best Mormon message videos they have produced yet so SHARE IT. When you do please add short message of why you like the video... that will help more people watch it.

 

There are also other Christmas videos to be shared.

3. Change your cover image on facebook to this:

or post the following pictures

 

Visit the LDS app on facebook for additional images.

 

2. Invite a friend to watch the Christmas devotional.

Watch Here

 

1. Simply write your personal testimony of the Savior on facebook or google+ wall.







 

 

Share your faith on your Christmas Card

As we are in the Christmas season and people are making Christmas Cards to share online or via the mail. I thought I would share our postcard from last year. You can see below what we did but the missionary tool in it was that we put a QR Code on it and the address to our blog where we put together a video of our family acting out the Nativity. Also the front of the card was inspired by the church's theme on lds.org during that season. Put your mind to it and I am sure you will find a creative way to make your Christmas card into a missionary activity.

WHY I created this blog

I have a strong belief in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In fact, I love everything about the church. It really has led and guided my whole life. It has taught me how to stay out of trouble. It has taught me of the love of the Savior and the power of His atonement if I repent. Each day I try to live by the teachings of the Savior, Jesus Christ, and of the prophets in the scriptures. The love I have for the Savior and the belief that I have that this church will improve the life of anyone who is willing to learn about it, has led me to this overwhelming desire to share the gospel with others. Missionary work is very dear to my heart.

From March 2004-2006 I served as a full time missionary for the Church in Spain. I was assigned to multiple small towns that only had population of 20,000-30,000 people. I knocked on every door in all of those towns within 3 months. Most towns only had 2-10 active members and missionaries had been in those towns for 12 years already. I felt like no one was going to listen to us because they already had had missionaries knocking on there door 40 times before. Every door I knocked on caused my mind to reflect on ideas for another way- another effective way to do missionary work. After much pondering, I figured that our message must be taken to newspapers and media.

After I got home from my mission, I married my best friend and graduated with a doctorate in Audiology. 5 days ago we welcomed our fourth child into our home. Life has become busy with four small children, a full time job and other church callings, but my mind and heart are always reflecting on ways I can do effective missionary work. The Hastening The Work Broadcast was thrilling to me. I remember cheering inside of my heart when Elder Perry said the era of knocking on doors and contacting in the street were over and that full time missionaries were now allowed to use the internet.

I believe that the internet is a huge way that the church will fulfill prophecies on missionary work. But in order for those prophecies to be fulfilled, members need to be trained on how to use the internet in missionary work. Therefore, I felt inspired to share all the ideas that I have found to share the gospel online. As always, I welcome any comments and your ideas on online missionary work.

Donate to the church by using Smile.Amazon.com

Amazon.com has put out a new thing called smile.amazon.com. It's the EXACT same website, but with one small difference: instead of Amazon giving google (or whatever site you came to Amazon from) giving a kickback- at smile.amazon.com, they give that 0.5% kickback to a charity of your choice and I am giving to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. (They were on the list of charities to choose from). So, if you can change your shopping from amazon.com to smile.amazon.com, you can give that kickback to a charity instead of google or whomever. Anyway, spread the word about smile.amazon.com!!!!

New inforgraphic to encourage online missionary work

Please Pin to pinterest or share with your friends to encourage more online member missionary work!

New articles related to online missionary work and blogging

Here is a list of recent articles in the news about missionary work and how blogging is a missionary tool. Enjoy

Tips for LDS bloggers from the 'ultimate blog' — the Book of Mormon
Open, honest and vulnerable: one blogger's journey
Entering the world of LDS blogging
LDS Boston blogs used as a missionary tool
Blogging bishops: 2 Mormon men talk about sharing the gospel online

Share the Gospel Online infograph



 

I created this poster (and this blog) in hopes that it could be spread around pinterest or facebook to help people understand some ideas on how to share the gospel online. I was inspired by the infographics that the church has done (see here).  Obviously, I am not a professional and never took an advertising class, I would love to see if anyone else could create something better.

 

I feel that so often people do not understand what is effective and what is not effective in online missionary work. Someday, I intend to write a blog on all I know but as of now I don't know a lot so I am doing what I can to teach other members what I do know about sharing the gospel online.

 

The way I see missionary work is broken into two categories:

First, by going to other people and preaching to them. This would be traditionally knocking on doors or contacting in the street. If we convert this into an online setting this would be sending facebook friends invites to Mormon.org or repeatedly sharing Mormon messages or other gospel related things without a personal note. Success from this is probably very limited.

 

On the other hand the second category that I believe is more successful is when people search us out to learn the gospel and we teach from what they are interested in. Traditionally, this would be when friends ask members questions or when someone randomly shows up at church. I think this happens online when people search in google and they find a site in what they are interested in and then read about it.  That is why I think Elder Ballard has spoken often about blogging because then readers would be coming to you instead of you going to them.

 

However, we need people to spread links online for the church websites and other church oriented sites because it will optimize those links for google searches. So even if you just sharea  facebook post or pin things on pinterest it will help others find the church on google searches more often.

 

But there are many ways to share the gospel and so I tried to create this poster and this blog to teach some of the other ways.



Giving the free gift of an app for this Christmas Season

      

For this wonderful Christmas Season. A wonderful easy gift to give someone is an app for the church.
This can be simply done through itunes, Google apps store and probably many other apps stores that you use.

The bible video app would be awesome Christmas gift as it is all about Christ. Any church app would be a great gift for co-workers, past friends, or even your dentist. I hope that you will find joy in giving apps as it is so easy to do.