Comments on: How to Be a Missionary: Cottage Meetings

By: Mafi

Mafi — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 17:00:09 +0000

Cottage meetings has been very successful in the Sacrameto Mission it is done by the mission President, I am living now in La Verkin ut and hope it will have the same sucess.

By: Alison

Alison — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:30:40 +0000

We still occasionally have missionaries suggest cottage evenings here; certainly had them in the early ’80s when I was missionarying in England. Church videos such as The First Vision and Man’s Search for Happiness were popularly used.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:25:18 +0000

I guess we do, Bookslinger, as long as the fireside or FHE is geared toward non-members, maybe because a missionary asks a family to host another family to something that is more than a typical discussion but less than a formal meeting. A set of suggestions and the reasons behind them, as in this lesson, could help such a member-hosted evening be more successful.

ellen, that’s an unusually open-minded minister, I’d say! But from his perspective, what better way to shape your own young people’s introduction to an alternative than in a friendly setting where you could discuss ideas according to your own views after the missionaries left? And certainly nothing but good could result from the missionaries’ perspective, either. Thanks for the story.

Mel, I’d never thought of a “religion party” that way. You’d sure have to do it better than some “parties” I’ve been invited to where I felt ambushed, drawn in on false pretenses. But if it were clear from the beginning that the purpose of the gathering was to share religion — perhaps with one of those musical or cultural programs the lesson suggests — approaching it as a social event could be very effective. I like that idea.

By: Bookslinger

Bookslinger — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:04:11 +0000

We sort of do the same things today. They're called firesides or Family Home Evenings.

By: ellen

ellen — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:55:14 +0000

a pair of our elders was asked by a local protestant minister to speak with his youth group about our beliefs and traditions. by their account it was amazingly successful. as the message above suggests, if nothing more, good will and respect was generated.

if there is any followup, it will be with different elders and probably different members of the youth group. it isn’t likely that a minister of another church would promote an ongoing proselyting event. but the reason it happened in the first place is because of a friendship built between a church member and this protestant minister at a community event. by your fruits …

By: Mel

Mel — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 04:22:54 +0000

It’s interesting that these aren’t done anymore. People have no problem doing similar things for selling cosmetics (Mary Kay), or pots and pans (Pampered Chef), or even solar panels.

Why not do the same thing for religion?