What is the life of a real online missionary like?

I found this post as I were searching in Google about online missionary work. I really did enjoy the article and gave me a new perspective on online missionary work. I think that if I were 19 again I would hope to serve in an online only mission. I really do think they do very effective work and I think you would really learn so much.

Here is the article
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/09/mormon-church-online_n_5024251.html

Warning: The author uses a few curse words.

The Power of Wikipedia in Online Missionary Work

The power of Wikipedia in Online Missionary Work

If you are looking to make a large impact in your time spent in online missionary work. May I suggest Wikipedia as one of the places where you will make a big splash. Wikipedia is powerful because people are already coming there for information. They are interested to learn and they are coming by the thousands each and every day. This weekend I edit two post on Wikipedia ‘Miracles of Jesus’ and ‘Noah’. Miracles of Christ previously had no reference to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or miracles in the Book of Mormon and Noah only had one sentence in reference to church doctine.

How can I tell that it is powerful.

Wikipedia publishes statistics of how often each page is viewed. If you are curious to see how many people will see your Wikipedia edit. This is what to do. On the left bar of the page, click on page information.

Then scroll to the very bottom of that page information and you will find page view statistics

This is what you will see.

So in the last 30 days, this article has been displayed an average of over 2000 times per day.

That is a lot of people coming into contact with the doctrine of the church. Find a page where you can insert a link back to the church. I believe this will greatly help people be able to learn more about they church in a non-pushy informative way.

Infographic Resume of Jesus Christ

Infographic Resume of Jesus Christ

As infographic resumes have increase in popularity, I decided to create one for Jesus Christ. I hope this can be shared and help people to remember and learn more about the savior.

Family video turned missionary work.

I made a video during Sunday general conference morning. It will be great for my kids to look back on plus I post it to my Facebook wall to share the goodness with the world.

list of 101 ways to share the gospel

Ok, So i have not kept up this site well but I did find this amazing list of 101 ways to share the gospel and be an online missionary. He has some great ideas. Please read and act on them.

A shout out to a local company.

My ward recently had an activity in which they had  a Soft Serve Ice Cream Machine Rental. It tasted awesome and the youth all loved it making huge ice cream cones. I was more suprised when I found out that the company call DooDillys rented out the ice cream machine in Utah for free to all church groups. I was the one who returned the machine and so I asked them why they did it and they just said that they were LDS members who wanted to help build the kingdom of God anyway they could, but noted that even non-LDS church groups could get the machine for free. I thought it was awesome so I figured I would give a shout out to them.

Another article published about apps and social media tools to help spread the gospel

A BYU newspaper outlined ways that are used to share the gospel online.
http://universe.byu.edu/2014/06/09/byu-students-have-been-called-to-serve-online/

How to use Pinterest to Share the Gospel

Pinterest is a great way to share the gospel and is quickly becoming a huge player is the business world to get marketing and messaging out there. Stats show that more people spend more time on pinterest than they do on facebook or other social media. It is also a very non-threating way to share the gospel.
Step 1
Create a board.

You can title it anything you want. Many example would be
*Things I Believe
*Lds Church
*Mormon Quotes
*Why I am Happy
*Follow the Prophet
*Pinning the Gospel

Step 2.
REPIN church posts
One of the things that I have gotten in the habit of doing is checking what other people have pinned from the church sites. To do that click on these links

http://www.pinterest.com/source/lds.org/

http://www.pinterest.com/source/mormon.org/

Those links will give you live feeds of what other people are linking back to the church so you can be sure that you are not missing anything you link. Another option would be to repin things off of someone elses church related boards.

Another option would be to create a church related like an infographic or picture. If you are creative or artistic please use your talent and create you own pins to share the gospel.