Hey, welcome to the Scripture Study Project, our podcast that gives you a fresh and faithful study of the scriptures that will renew your excitement for your own personal study

and help you passionately teach what you're learning to others. I'm Krista and I am here with

Zach. Zach. Sounds like E.R. tonight. Not really though. Thanks a lot. Thanks for having me um we are excited to dig in today we are starting

into a new book we're going to be studying in ether chapters one through five today it's episode

46 and here we go with our study tip so So we had a discussion today in a meeting that I was in about mission prep in our ward.

And in this particular meeting, there was a really inspired discussion led by the spirit.

And one of the things that we decided was at the beginning of the

meeting, there was an idea that we have a mission prep class in our ward. At the end of the meeting,

we ended at this really exciting idea that instead of a mission prep class, let's have the young

men and young women that are considering missions and even those

that aren't be involved in some kind of active preparation for missionary service, whether that means

going out with their ministering companions and teaching, preach my gospel lessons in homes,

to their ministering families, or serving in other ways, preparing themselves financially,

learning how to do the skills that they'll need to do on a mission.

It was this very hands-on mission prep idea.

And it's an awesome idea, and I'm excited to see how it materializes in our ward.

And as I thought of that, I thought of a kind of a teaching mantra I heard years ago that was, instead of focusing on what you're going to teach, focus on what your students or what your children are going to do.

Instead of asking yourself the question, what am I going to do today in my lesson?

Or what am I going to do to teach my family? You ask, what are they going to do that's going to help them learn, not just in their minds,

but in their hearts and even in their hands and their soul, the Gospel of Jesus Christ?

And what I like about this is it shifts from focusing so much on what we're going to say

and on the information or the details, and it shifts to focusing on what we're going to do

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