Nigeria Portharcourt South Misson

29/05/2026

Trainers & Trainees Evaluation | Nigeria Port Harcourt South Mission.
Thursday, 28 May 2026.

Yesterday our mission family gathered for a sacred moment of accountability and faith.

After 3-6 weeks of language and spiritual preparation at the MTC, new missionaries enter the field and are paired with experienced trainers. For 12 weeks, those trainers accept a divine stewardship: to teach, mentor, and prepare a new disciple to represent the Savior with power and authority.

Those 12 weeks are foundational. They determine whether a missionary merely survives, or thrives for 18 months as a Sister and 24 months as an Elder.

Under the direction of the Mission President and APs, with Zone Leaders and Sister Training Leaders in attendance, each trainer-trainee pair was assessed on the core competencies of missionary work:

1. 12-Week Manual - Application of weekly principles.
2. 8 Fundamentals - Doctrinal mastery without notes.
3. Daily & P-Day Schedules - Discipline and balance.
4. PMG App - Stewardship over NPTs, referrals, area book, and PMG colors.
5. Missionary Lessons 1-3 - Ability to teach principles concisely and testify within 3-5 minutes.
6. Teaching Roleplays - Asking inspired questions, using scriptures, extending invitations, promising blessings.
7. Planning Sessions - Setting and acting on inspired goals & plans as companions.
8. PMG Manual - Recognizing pmg chapters by phrase & learning the pmg chapters off hand.
9. Technology - Adherence to the 4 Safeguards.
10. Lesson 4 - Understanding the doctrine of Christ & helping others become lifelong disciples.

What we witnessed was more than evaluation. We witnessed consecration. Trainers who had poured out their energy. Trainees who pressed forward through fear to bear testimony.

As President Packer taught, “True doctrine, understood, changes attitudes and behavior.” Yesterday we saw attitudes and behavior change. We saw missionaries prepared to “teach by the spirit… teach people, not lessons.”

The performance observed will prayerfully guide future training and leadership assignments. But the greater result is this: Port Harcourt South now has missionaries who understand the work and are willing to submit to all that the Lord seeth fit. Mosiah 3:19.

With two weeks of training remaining, these elders and sisters will soon carry full responsibility for the work. The harvest is ready. The Lord has qualified them.

“If ye have desires to serve God ye are called to the work” - D&C 4:3.

We express gratitude to every trainer for their sacrifice, and to every trainee for their diligence. The work of salvation accelerates because of you.

26/05/2026

Missionaries Are Still Changing the World Today — One Soul at a Time:

In his talk titled “Adorned with the Virtue of Temperance,” in the Oct 2025 Gen Conf.
Elder Ulisses Soares said;

“The gospel of Jesus Christ provides us with divinely inspired and effective means to prevent the spiritual erosion in our souls, powerfully reinforcing our foundation and helping us avoid gaps in our faith and instability in both our testimony and our understanding of the sacred truths of the gospel.”

That’s exactly what full-time missionaries are doing every day.

They knock on doors, teach in living rooms, and message strangers online. Not to sell something, but to share something that actually holds people together when life gets shaky.

Here’s what missionary work is really doing today:

1. It stops spiritual erosion before it starts:
Life wears on us. Doubt creeps in. Distractions pull us away. Missionaries bring the simple truths of Jesus Christ back to the center.

“Therefore, whoso heareth these sayings of mine and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, who built his house upon a rock."
(3 Nephi 14:24-25).

Missionaries help people build on that rock while they’re still young in the gospel.

2. It gives people a foundation they can trust:
In a world full of shifting opinions, the gospel gives clear answers about who we are, why we’re here, and where we’re going.

President Russell M. Nelson taught: “The joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.” Missionaries help people shift their focus to Christ.

3. It closes the gaps in faith:
Many people believe in God but don’t know Him personally. Missionaries invite people to read, pray, and act on what they learn. That’s how testimony becomes real, not just borrowed.

4. It creates ripple effects:
One person who accepts the gospel often changes their whole family. I’ve seen it: a kid who serves a mission comes home different. A mom who gets baptized starts bringing peace to her home. A whole neighborhood hears the message because one missionary said yes.
Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf said, “You are doing the Lord’s work. It may not always be easy, but it is always worth it.”

5. It reminds all of us what matters:
Even if you’re not a missionary, their example pushes the rest of us to share our faith, be kinder, and live the gospel more openly. Missionary work keeps the Church outward-focused, not inward.

Missionaries aren’t perfect. They’re 18- and 19-year-olds and older couples who choose to give 18 months to 2 years to help others find Christ. And that’s why it works. Because it’s about Christ, not about them.

If you know a missionary, send them a message today. If you’ve ever thought about serving, talk to your bishop. And if you’re feeling spiritually shaky, let a missionary sit with you and open the Book of Mormon. It still works Because the gospel doesn’t just teach us truth. It holds us up when everything else feels like it’s slipping.

What’s one way you’ve seen missionary work strengthen someone’s faith? Share with us.👇

24/05/2026

"The Book of Mormon was written for our day & for our future. As we study it's pages, we come to know the truth - As we understand it's teachings, they begin to shape our hearts - As we internalize it's messages and immerse ourselves in it's words, we will be guided to discern right from wrong & empowered to use our God given agency wisely..."

30/04/2026

Trainers Orientation: Where Leaders Are Forged

Every 6 weeks in the Nigeria Port Harcourt South Mission, something sacred happens. We hold our Trainers Orientation Meeting. It is more than a calendar event. It is where the Lord prepares those who will prepare His newest missionaries.

The meeting opens with counsel from President Ndlovu, our mission president. Then the APs provide focused training on instructions for trainers, the 12-weeks manual, obedience, companionship unity, teaching skills, and how to love as the Savior loves. We close with President Ndlovu’s final charge, sending each trainer back to the field with clarity and power.

Why does this matter? Because a new missionary’s first 12 weeks shape the next 24/18 months. And often, the next 24 years. The trainer holds a sacred trust to set patterns of faith, diligence, and joy that can last a lifetime.

But here’s the miracle: Training a new missionary doesn’t just change the trainee. It refines the trainer. You cannot teach repentance without feeling it. You cannot testify of Christ without coming to know Him better. You cannot lift another without rising yourself.

The Lord’s pattern for training:
“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
— (Proverbs 22:6).

“I did teach my sons… that they must keep the commandments of God” — (Mosiah 1:4).

“Seek ye diligently and teach one another words of wisdom; yea, seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom; seek learning, even by study and also by faith.” — (D&C 88:118).

The promise to trainers and trainees alike:
Elder Dallin H. Oaks taught: "In the service of the Lord, it is not where you serve but how. Every missionary assignment is an opportunity to learn, to grow, and to become more like the Savior.”

To every trainer: You were called because the Lord trusts you with one of His sons or daughters;
- Teach with power.
- Love with patience.
- Lead with the Spirit.
- Your 12 weeks with them may be the foundation of their eternal progression.

To every new missionary: Your trainer was prepared for you;
- Be humble.
- Be believing.
- Be moldable.
- The Lord is shaping you both.

This is the work of salvation. One companionship at a time, the world is changing.

Strong trainers build strong missions. Strong missions build Zion.

27/03/2026

We love you and we're glad you're all home safe now...🎊

"When seen from an eternal perspective,
Your full-time mission experience is more than a checkbox to be marked off—it is a means to continue becoming a lifelong disciple of Jesus Christ." - (MSDJC 1.0)

24/03/2026

My brothers and my brethren,
behold I say unto you, how great reason have we to rejoice; for could we have supposed when we started from the land of Zarahemla that God would have granted unto us such great blessings?

For our brethren, the Lamanites, were in darkness, yea, even in the darkest abyss, but behold, how many of them are brought to behold the marvelous light of God!

And this is the blessing which hath been bestowed upon us, that we have been made instruments in the hands of God to bring about this great work.

Behold,
The field was ripe, and blessed are ye, for ye did thrust in the sickle, and did reap with your might, yea, all the day long did ye labor; and behold the number of your sheaves! And they shall be gathered into the garners, that they are not wasted.

[Alma 26:1-9]

28/02/2026

28/02/2026

Listen as Elder Buckman one of the going home missionaries shares his burning testimony of how his study of the Book of Mormon throughout his full-time Missionary experience has helped deepen his understanding about his purpose on earth and hereafter...🥹

27/02/2026

Watch as Elder Antwi a young missionary leader of the Nigeria Portharcourt South Misson shares attributes of the Savior that he's developing through his service as a full-time Missionary and his burning testimony of the Book of Mormon...🤗