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This week is part 2 where Taylor offers an approach he calls, “Talking is not Teaching.” It is a complete re-framing of the approach to teaching the gospel that mirrors much of what is being rolled out in Sunday schools and in Priesthood and Relief society with the Come, Follow Me style of gospel learning. Links to content from this episode: 5 Ways to Be a Learning Designer, Not Just a Teacher, Deseret News, December 26, 2018. Do We Go to Church to Be Taught or to Learn?, Deseret News, December 19, 2017. Learning, No Greater Responsibility, Deseret News, December 12, 2017. Rules for Learning, Deseret News, January 15, 2015. Learning is Becoming More Like God, Deseret News, March 29, 2015. The music for this week is also our second week of featuring music by April Meservy. She recently won an award for her music video at the LDS Film Festival in Orem, Utah. She has such an amazing voice and is such a talent. So, please visit April Meservy’s website. In last week’s episode, Taylor talked about having

Our first interview is a two part episode…sort of.  I interviewed Dr. Taylor Halverson who is a teaching and learning consultant at BYU. In other words, he helps teach BYU professors to be better teachers. He offers some much needed advice to all gospel teachers, but especially missionaries. In this first part we discuss the do’s and don’t of teaching the gospel using Metaphor or Analogy. In part 2 we offer an approach that Taylor calls, Talking is not Teaching. It is a complete re-framing of the approach to teaching the gospel that mirrors much of what is being rolled out in Sunday schools and in Priesthood and Relief society with the Come, Follow Me style of gospel learning. This episode is one you are going to want to listen to a number of times to make sure you have these things ingrained in your approach to teaching the gospel. Part 2 will be on next weeks episode, so stay tuned for that. Link from our interview with Taylor: http://ctl.byu.edu/tip/found-metaphors-strategy-applied-creative-thinking   F

Music has a special way of communicating gospel principles and inspiration from the Spirit. Music can help in missionary efforts in a number of ways as well. This weeks main guest is Garth Smith. Garth and his wife present multi-media firesides that primarily use music to convey truths of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ and the power of the atonement. Garth talks about some of his experiences giving firesides around the country, and he also talks about his own missionary service among the Navajo Indians in the southwest United States. Join Kelsey Edwards, and Nick Galieti in this special musically-themed interview. Following that interview is our special interview by Shawn Rapier of the Latter-day Lives Podcast. He interviews director and producer Brian Brough, who has created a number of wonderful films, including an upcoming film about Emma Smith; Brian shares a powerful conversion story from his missionary service in the Sao Paulo, Brazil mission about an investigator who, after years of meeting wit

Missionaries are not immune to the same mental health challenges experienced by a growing portion of the world's population. However, missionaries are typically called to learn their language, learn the gospel, and then teach the gospel so as to bring people unto Christ without much education on this increasingly relevant issue. Out guest on this episode is clinical social worker, Annie Edwards (mother to our host, Kelsey), shares some basic information on the signs of common mental health issues like anxiety and depression, as well as some discussion on best practices when missionaries encounter the mental health issues in themselves or in those whom they associate. This episode also features our first interview with an outgoing missionary, Tanner Bennett, who shares his inspiring story of how he fought to overcome some challenges to be called on his mission. We end the episode with our Book of Mormon Challenge. All the music in this episode is arranged and/or performed by host, Kelsey Edwards. For full ver

Daniel Peterson (left) and Nick Galieti (right - host) In this fascinating episode, Nick Galieti sits down with legendary BYU Scholar, Daniel C. Peterson, long time professor of Islamic Studies, and founder of The Mormon Interpreter Foundation (a tremendous resource for LDS Scholarship). We talk about the various ways in which Mormonism and Islam are similar, and what ways they are different, as well as some cultural know-how to avoid awkward conversations, or perhaps other missteps that could result in damage to cherished relationships between members of the two faiths. We ended up finding out that this subject seems to be of such importance that the First Presidency has asked Daniel Peterson to write an article for the Ensign on the same subject as our interview! While missionaries specifically going to Africa or Europe will get some valuable information from this episode, anyone anywhere in the world can come to know, and appreciate one of the largest religions in the world as well as how we can more fait

Nick, and his wife, Heidi Galieti, at the special screening of The Craftsman, Meet the Mormons. In our debut podcast episode, we had the pleasure of sitting down with Blair Treu (writer and director), Jenna Kim Jones (host/narrator), and Danny Sorensen (featured story) from the "final" installment of the Meet the Mormons franchise of films - The Craftsman. Host-Nick Galieti sits down with our guests to talk about the movie franchise, and more specifically this episode now shown at Visitor's Centers around the world. Shawn Rapier and Joel Bishop - Latter-day Lives Podcast We will also introduce you to some other regular segments on our show: The Book of Mormon Challenge, Missionary News, and Shawn Rapier's special interview from his Latter-day Lives Podcast. This episode features a special interview with LDS Actor, Joel Bishop about his mission service in Germany. Stay tuned as we have so much more to share over the coming weeks. Make sure to subscribe to our podcast in iTunes and other podcast outlets. M