How Great Shall Be My Joy!
How Great Shall Be My Joy is a weekly podcast, put out on Sunday afternoons, to help the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints be more effective member missionaries. It includes both actual experiences and training tips on how to more effectively share the gospel with others by being an instrument in the Lord’s hands. My desire is that by listening to these podcasts, members of the Church will have more frequent, fun, and fulfilling member missionary experiences and eliminate the guilt that many members of the Church feel when member missionary work is discussed. (See D&C 18:15)
Episodes
43 episodes
Episode 43: “It WILL Change Your Life!” The Remarkable Conversion Story of Eli Reynolds
Adopted. Jewish ancestry. Abandoned. Christian upbringing. Heavy drinking. Suicide attempts. No money. Had to leave home. And he’s still only 17…Then the Book of Mormon and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints came into his li...
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Episode 43
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46:33
Episode 42: “Just Come to Church Once!” The Conversion of Michael Vaughan
Michael Vaughan is a simple man with a simple story. He visited 22 different churches before he joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.When I asked him to sum up what his experience had been like, he kept it very simple: ...
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Episode 42
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13:44
Episode 41: Come to Church With Us Cards!
Did you ever wish you just had a business card that you could give to anyone anytime anywhere that invited them to come to church with you? Well, a couple of weeks ago I created just that for our ward in Washington DC.For a whopping tota...
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Episode 41
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21:46
Episode 40: An Instrument in His Hands: Shawna Edwards' Christian Music
I've known her since high school. She was the accompanist for our acapella choir. She was really good.In 2010, she uploaded her first music video to the new channel, Youtube. She hoped it would get 100 views. In three weeks, it got over 100...
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Episode 40
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33:40
Episode 39: Merrill Osmond—Lifetime Member Missionary
Today I had the privilege of interviewing performing celebrity Merrill Osmond. The location was the Washington DC Temple Visitors Center, where he and his wife, Mary, are serving a full-time mission.What a joy to hear about his lifetime of ...
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Episode 39
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34:36
Episode 38: From Scotland to Greece to Utah to Washington DC: The Amazing Conversion Story of Lewis
I first met Lewis Bramley a year ago when he moved into the Washington DC 3rd Ward. I was struck by his beautiful Scottish accent.I was fortunate as the ward mission leader that they called Louis and his wife, Gillian, to be ward missionari...
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Episode 38
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32:44
Episode 37: Joy With A Temple Open House!
The Washington DC Temple Open House is currently going on. Yesterday, I had the opportunity to visit and share with five people the opportunity to visit our temple open house. It’s rare that that many missionary opportunities natur...
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Episode 37
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20:55
Episode 36: ¡HOLA! ¡Cómo observar, escuchar y actuar como miembro misionero!
Hola es la palabra en ingles por hola. Así es como tienden a comenzar todas las relaciones nuevas: alguien dice hola. También es el acrónimo perfecto para guiar a las personas en la obra misional exitosa de los miembros. La H significa hola o...
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Episode 36
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Episode 35: H-O-L-A! How to Observe, Listen, and Act as a Member Missionary
Hola (Oh-law) is the Spanish word for hello. It’s how all new relationships tend to start out: somebody says hello. It’s also a perfect acronym to guide people involved in member missionary work. The H stands for How, (we then in...
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Episode 35
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Episode 34: My Missionary Mother
She’s named after her grandmother, and that’s a good thing. Her grandmother served on the general board of the Young Women’s Mutual Improvement Association for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for 25 years. Then she was cal...
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Episode 34
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22:38
Episode 33: Dropped in YOUR Pathway-The Conversion of Michael Seay
Michael Seay is a realtor in the Washington DC area. He’s been a friend of mine for about 30 years. He is one of the most loving people I’ve ever met. He’s the first guy I’ve seen in my life who told fellow employees that he loves them right th...
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Episode 33
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27:26
Episode 32: A Time for Healing: My Piano Arrangement of “Bro. James’s Air”
Music has a way of healing people. James Leith Macbeth Bain knew that. Born in Scotland in 1840, he was known to his friends as simply Brother James. He was a musician, poet, a mystic, and had a great interest in healing. In 1906...
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Episode 32
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3:06
Episode 31: “God Loves Me (and you too)!” Brian’s Conversion Story
Have you ever felt like there was more out there in life for you? Maybe something was missing but you’re not sure what?Brian felt the same way. Surrounded by loving family at a young age, he was exposed to four different churches, Brian eve...
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Episode 31
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29:34
Episode 30: A God of Miracles—Alyssa’s Conversion Story
She just graduated from Harvard, and she found heaven while she was there. Part of it came in meeting my nephew, Westley Cook, part of it came from learning about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints while on campus, and the rest cam...
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Episode 30
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20:16
Episode 29: The Spirit of Elijah—My Conversation with Mom
Enjoy this wonderful conversation I had this afternoon with my 89-year-old mother. She understands the need for temples and how to be involved in genealogical work as well as anyone I know. She is the mother of 11 children. She h...
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Episode 29
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Episode 28: Piano Joy: “Come, Ye Children of the Lord”
Sometimes, the best podcasts don’t have any words. Instead, they have music. And music heals the soul.Recently, while visiting my mother in Utah, I sat down at her piano and started to try to play a favorite hymn of The Church of Jesus Chri...
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Episode 28
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3:05
Episode 27: How Facebook Found Oliver Cowdery’s Descendant!
I run a Facebook ad for one dollar a day, offering to give people a free copy of the Book of Mormon in my local area. I’ve run it for about 10 days and 263 people have seen it so far. One of the people who saw it commented that his “.....
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Episode 27
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11:17
Episode 26: From Uber to Ethiopia to Philadelphia: The Rest of the Story (Clayton & Marla Foulger)
Meet Clayton and Marla Foulger, two of the best people on the planet. They had the privilege of being involved with Yitbarek and his family’s conversion. Their humble attitude about member missionary work is inspiring and instructive. ...
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Episode 26
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26:36
Episode 25: From Uber to Ethiopia-The Conversion Story of Yitbarek
The members of the Church needed a ride to the airport. He was their Uber driver.They invited him to their home, he met the missionaries, and read the Book of Mormon. He went to the visitors’ center in Washington DC, told his wife about it,...
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Episode 25
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25:38
Episode 24: Design Your Own Plan—51 & Counting!
In response to President Nelson’s email of January 1, 2020, I designed my own plan to share the gospel and the message of the Restoration with as many people as possible. As of August 16, I have shared this message with 51 people. I am about to...
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Episode 24
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15:48
Episode 23: Not the Best Example...!
I don’t know if you’ve ever been used publicly as an example of how NOT to do member missionary work, but I have! It happened when I was a student at BYU in front of about 2000 people.The incident occurred on a plane flight to New Zealand w...
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Episode 23
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10:36
Episode 22: Sharing the Gospel-Thank You, Elder Oaks!
One of the great general conference talks that’s been given on member missionary work was given in October 2001 by Elder Dallin H Oaks. That talk, Sharing the Gospel, was a foundational talk for me as I served at that time as the bisho...
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Episode 22
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14:52
Episode 21: Joy at the Gas Station
Sometimes member missionary experiences happen because you notice someone else’s efforts to spread the good news. That’s what happened when I exited a small gas station market in McLean, Virginia recently.Positioned on top of the sanitizing...
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Episode 21
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Episode 20: It’s All About the Receiver
Successful member missionary work is always about the other person. Sometimes on a flight you sit next to an open-hearted person; sometimes you sit next to a closed-hearted person. I had the experience of sitting next to one of each on...
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Episode 20
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5:50
Episode 19: Joy with the Dining Room Set Delivery
Sometimes God drops a member missionary situation in your pathway when you’re at work. That was the case with this story which happened two days ago in Chevy Chase, Maryland.A lady purchased a dining room set we had hauled away from another...
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Episode 19
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