couple missionary or missionaries

Missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who are married and usually mature in age who serve together as representatives of the church all over the world. These couples pay for their own expenses with little support from the church and serve differing numbers of months and years of mission time depending on their responsibility.

Unlike single missionaries who are male, couple missionaries like sister missionaries can serve as many missions are they want.

Cert. or Certification

In the South Africa Cape Town mission, missionaries must be certified to drive in South Africa before they are allowed behind the wheel of a mission vehicle even if they already have a valid license from another country. The certification process is to make sure that the missionary is aware of differing laws and how adjust to the possibility of driving on the opposite side of the roadway.

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Preparation Day; P-day

A day set aside each week to complete tasks unrelated to missionary work directly such as washing clothing, grocery shopping etc. Missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint in each mission has a day, usually Monday, set aside where the proselyting is discontinued until the evening so that the worldly affairs can be taken care of. This day is at the discretion of the Mission president.

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Mission President

Mission Presidents are the leaders of the missions of  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They tend to have 2 or more counselors, wither missionaries or lay members to help them with the function of the missions in conjunction with their spouses. These men oversee the missionary activities within their assigned area and control the ecclesiastical function of areas not organized into stakes of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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Missionary

 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints commissions men and women to teach its doctrines to interested parties within missions. These men and women are ordained ministers of the church and the men are authorized priesthood holders in the office of Elder within what is called the Melchizedek priesthood.

Female missionaries are called Sister missionaries and hold no office in the Melchizedek priesthood.

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Mission

A mission is a geographical location set apart by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in which a group of missionaries are assigned the reprehensibility to teach the people within that area the gospel of Jesus Christ under the leadership of a Mission President.

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Tract / Tracting / Tracted

Missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have pamphlets which they hand out to interested parties called investigators. Tract-ing meas to actually leave an information tract at the houses at which the missionaries knock. The act of knocking on doors, or door-to-door contacting evolved over time into tracting or to tact even if the missionaries left no information.

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Discussion

In the true sense of the word, a discussion with the missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in archaic times meant to have one of several missionary teaching lessons called "discussions". There were six in all used in most of the world, but varied depending on a mission's president's agenda for his mission.
Each discussion covered certain principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ and teachings of the church. The lessons the missionaries taught included a script for the missionaries to recite, usually from memory, with prompts along the script to ask questions related to the content and relevant scriptural references.
Currently missionaries are authorized to use a book entitled Peach My Gospel for study and instruction to help them instruct investigators of the gospel.

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Companion

Missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have one, sometimes two, other missionaries as assistants in teaching the gospel. Depending on the mission in which the missionaries serve, there may exist a senior companion and a junior companion. The senior companion is considered the lead teacher and decision maker for the two to three missionaries. The term is used as it is in its dictionary term, but there is no intimate sexual relationship for the companionship and it is usually of unmarried partners of the same gender.

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Companionship Study

Sometimes shorted to comp' study is a time set aside by missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for studying the gospel of Jesus Christ using the scriptures and other tools sanction by the church for understanding and teaching the gospel.  Missionaries usually spend one hour studying together to sharpen teaching skills and understanding of church doctrines.

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Greenie: Greenie is a term used by missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints unofficially in the archaic days of missionary service to describe the status of new missionaries to the mission field. Though it is considered a term of endearment, it as has an underlying insult to the minister who bears the title as a novice and therefore not as initiated or qualified as those without that status.
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