Week 72- Pre-flight Checklist 

Scriptures:

Matthew 22: 36-40, 25: 31-46

Alma 31:5

2 Ne 33:1

D&C 50: 17-22

General Conference Address:  

“Teaching after the Manner of the Spirit” Elder Matthew O Richardson CR 10/2011

Teaching By the Spirit Video Presentation

Thought:

“When I was an airline pilot, each time I settled into the captain’s seat, I had one major goal—getting myself, my crew, and my passengers safely to our destination. This aim required focus and vigilance.

To maintain this focus, pilots perform a series of preflight checks, rehearsing safety procedures and examining instrument functionality and mechanical reliability. Each item on the checklist is something the pilot has done hundreds (if not thousands) of times.

An expert pilot never assumes that since he or she has flown hundreds of times, there is no need to bother with the preflight check or skim over it casually.

The preflight check disciplines pilots to keep their focus on the essential things that make a successful flight.

Just as a pilot has a specific guiding purpose, so do we as teachers of the Word: to bring souls closer to Christ. Whenever we approach a teaching opportunity, that goal should be foremost in our mind.

As teachers, do we have a checklist to help us focus on our sacred objective? Yes!” (Elder Uchtdorf ibid)

Misc:

‘I try to remind myself often that in all my efforts to teach the gospel and bring people to Jesus Christ, I cannot convert anyone…Only the Holy Ghost can do that…As then Elder Dallin H. Oaks taught, ‘Study and reason can find the truth, … but only revelation can confirm it.’’’(ibid)

Invitation: 

Complete the following exercise: