I’m typing this list for myself today and I thought I’d share because I don’t have any happy photos of the kids to show. (School has begun.) This is a list of 98 scripture references about being an effective missionary that I have found in my study during the past few months. I’ve included summaries, personal interpretations, and annotations of these scriptures. You may learn something else from looking up the references.
- Alma 8:32: Preach and prophesy according to the spirit and power that the Lord has given you.
- Alma 7:24: See that you have faith, hope, and charity, and then ye will always abound in good works.
- Alma 7:23: Be humble, meek, submissive, and gentle; easy to be entreated; full of patience and long-suffering; temperate in all things; diligent in keeping the commandments of God at all times; asking for whatsoever things ye stand in need, both spiritual and temporal; always returning thanks unto God for whatsoever things ye do receive.
- Alma 6:8: [Preach] according to revelation and the spirit of prophecy, according to the testimony of Jesus Christ
- Alma 6:6: Join with the Church in fasting and mighty prayer for those who know not God.
- Alma 6:5: Be liberal (share) unto all
- Alma 5:62: Speak by way of invitation.
- Alma 5:49: Preach unto all
- Alma 5:48: Bear testimony of Jesus Christ.
- Alma 5:46: Fast and pray to know for yourself by the Holy Spirit what is true.
- Alma 4:19: Bear pure testimony
- Alma 1:21: Do not persecute others.
- D&C 133:57: Reason in plainness and simplicity.
- Mosiah 27:35: Publish all things that you have seen.
- Mosiah 27:37: Publish peace, good tidings of good; declare that the Lord reigns
- Mosiah 23:18: Watch over one another and nourish others with righteous acts and words.
- Mosiah 23:14: Be a trustworthy teacher by being a man or woman of God and keep the commandments.
- D&C 124:4: Write in the spirit of meekness by the power of the Holy Ghost.
- D&C 123:17: Cheerfully do all in our power and be assured that God will help and save.
- D&C 121:45: Be full of charity towards all; have virtuous thoughts continually; then you will have confidence and and understanding of doctrine
- D&C 121:26: Receive knowledge through the Holy Spirit.
- D&C 115:5: Arise and shine forth, that thy light may be a standard for the nations;
- D&C 112:28: Purify your hearts, then go to all the world and preach the gospel to everyone.
- D&C 112:10: Be humble and the Lord will lead thee by the hand, and give thee answer to thy prayers.
- D&C 112:4: Let your heart be of good cheer; bear record of the Lord’s name.
- Mosiah 15:16: Publish peace.
- D&C 108:7: Strengthen others in all your conversation, in all your prayers, in all your exhortations, in all your doings.
- D&C 101:16: Be still and know that I am God.
- D&C 100:7: Declare in Christ’s name with solemnity and meekness.
- D&C 100:6: Remember that it shall be given you in the very hour, yea, in the very moment, what ye shall say.
- D&C 100:5: Speak the thoughts that the Lord shall put in your hearts.
- D&C 98:16: Proclaim peace, seek diligently to turn the hearts of the children to their fathers, and the hearts of the fathers to the children.
- D&C 98:1: Fear not, let your hearts be comforted, rejoice evermore, and in everything give thanks.
- D&C 90:24: Search diligently, pray always, and be believing; walk uprightly
- D&C 90: Be not ashamed or confounded; avoid pride; Set in order your house; keep slothfulness and uncleanness far from you.
- D&C 90:15: Study and learn, become acquainted with all good books, and languages, tongues, and people.
- Enos: Pray, labor in faith and diligence for others
- Enos 1:9: Feel a desire for the welfare of others and pour our your whole soul unto God for them.
- D&C 88:124: Cease to be idle, unclean; cease to find fault with one another; cease to sleep longer than is needful; retire to bed early, arise early.
- D&C 88:123: Love one another; do not covet; learn to impart (teach, give) as the gospel requires.
- D&C 88:119: Organize yourselves; prepare every needful thing; establish a house of prayer, fasting, faith, learning, glory, order, a house of God.
- D&C 88:118: Seek diligently and teach words of wisdom; seek out of the best books; seek learning by study and by faith.
- D&C 88:84: Prepare the saints for the hour of judgment which is to come.
- D&C 88:84: labor diligently that you may be perfected in your ministry.
- D&C 88:81: Testify and warn the people; it becometh every man who hath been warned to warn his neighbor.
- D&C 88:77-78: Teach the doctrine of the kingdom. Be instructed in theory, principle, doctrine, law of the Gospel; of many subjects… so you may be prepared share and fulfill the mission the Lord has for you.
- D&C 88:74: organize yourselves, prepare yourselves, sanctify yourselves, purify your hearts.
- D&C 84:106: Strengthen those who are weak in meekness.
- D&C 84:85: Don’t take thought beforehand what to say, but treasure up in your minds continually the words of life; it shall be given to you in the very hour that portion that shall be given..
- D&C 84:80: Be faithful and you will not be weary in mind and you will be watched over.
- D&C 84:73: Do not boast of things that you have received; Do not share the most sacred experiences you have with everyone.
- D&C 84: 61: Be steadfast and solemn in mind and be prayerful; Bear testimony to the world of the things that are communicated to you by the Spirit.
- 2 Nephi 33:1: Speak by the power of the Holy Ghost and it will be carried to the hearts of others.
- D&C 81:5: Stand in the office you have in the church; succor the weak; lift up the hands that hang down, and strengthen the feeble knees.
- D&C 80:3: Preach to all; it mattereth not where, for ye cannot go amiss.
- D&C 80:1: Preach the gospel to every creature that cometh under the sound of your voice.
- D&C 79: The Comforter will teach you the truth and the way you should go.
- 2 Nephi 32:9: Pray always and not faint; ye must not perform anything unto the Lord save in the first place ye shall pray unto the Father in the name of Christ.
- 2 Nephi 32:5: Enter the way, receive the Holy Ghost; it will show you all things what ye should do.
- 2 Nephi 32:3: Speak the words of Christ; feast upon the words of Christ; the words of Christ will tell you all things what ye should do.
- 2 Nephi 31:14: Through the power of the Holy Ghost, you can speak the tongue of angels.
- D&C 75: 4: Lift up your voice as with the sound of a trump proclaiming truth according to the revelations and commandments of the Lord.
- 2 Nephi 25:26: Talk of Christ; rejoice in Christ; preach of Christ; prophesy of Christ; write according to our prophecies.
- 2 Nephi 25:23: Labor diligently to write, to persuade others to believe in Christ and his grace.
- 2 Nephi 25:4: Delight in plainness, that others may learn.
- D&C 71:6: To him that receiveth the gospel shall be given more, even power.
- D&C 68:3: Speak as they are moved upon by the Holy Ghost.
- 2 Nephi 22:4: Declare [the Lord’s] doings among the people.
- D&C 63:64: Speak of sacred things with care, and by constraint of the Spirit. Receive the Spirit through prayer.
- D&C 63:44: The Lord allows us to use our wisdom to make choices in how we will do things.
- D&C 62:5: The Lord isn’t going to tell you everything you should do; Do what seems good to you; be faithful and declare glad tidings.
- D&C 62:8: Do according to your judgment and the directions of the Spirit.
- D&C 60:14: Proclaim the gospel not in haste, neither in wrath nor with strife.
- D&C 60:13: Do not idle away your time; do not bury your talents that they are not known.
- D&C 60:8: Preach the word not in haste.
- D&C 60:7: Declare with loud voices, without wrath or doubting.
- 1 Nephi 11:22-23: Seek the love of God in your heart; it is joyous to the soul.
- D&C 50: 21-22: Preach by the Spirit of truth; those who preach and receive will be edified and rejoice together if the Spirit is present.
- 2 Nephi 3:20: Use simple words.
- D&C 43:34-35: Treasure up truth in your hearts, let the solemnities of eternity rest upon your minds; Be sober. Keep all commandments.
- D&C 43:20: Lift up your voice and spare not, teaching all. Prepare for the Second Coming.
- D&C 43:16: Be taught from on high. Sanctify yourselves and be endowed with power. (Attend the temple and receive temple ordinances.)
- D&C 43:8: Instruct and edify one another.
- D&C 42:16: Lift up voices by the Comforter, ye shall speak and prophesy as seemeth me good;
- D&C 42:12: Teach the principles of [the] gospel, which are in the Bible and the Book of Mormon.
- D&C 38:41: Warn neighbor with mildness and meekness.
- D&C 11:21: Seek first to obtain the Lord’s word before declaring it.
- D&C 11:12: Put your trust in that Spirit which leadeth to do good–yea, to do justly, to walk humbly, to judge righteously; and this is my Spirit.
- D&C 11:7: Seek not for riches but for wisdom.
- D&C 12:8: No one can assist in this work except he shall be humble and full of love, having faith, hope and charity, being temperate in all things.
- D&C 26:1: Let your time be devoted to the studying of the scriptures, and to preaching.
- D&C 24:10: Do not suppose that [you] can say enough in [the Lord’s] cause.
- D&C 28:16: Open your mouth at all times, declaring gospel with the sound of rejoicing.
- D&C 30:11: Ever open your mouth in the Lord’s cause; do not fear what man can do.
- D&C 30:6: Be afflicted in all [your neighbor’s] afflictions. (Sympathetic, sustaining)
- D&C 31:9: Be patient in afflictions; revile not against those that revile. Govern your house in meekness, and be steadfast.
- D&C 32:1: Declare the gospel and learn of Christ, be meek and lowly in heart.
- D&C 33:2: Lift up your voices as with the sound of a trump.