Latter-day Saint MissionCast

Latter-day Saint MissionCast episodes:

• 05.17.2018

  Preparing to Serve a mission with Rae Eckton and Iris Wright – Episode 16 LDS MissionCast

  The LDS MissionCast is a podcast to educate and inspire members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the great cause of Missionary Work. This episode is all about Preparing to Serve a mission. In this episode...

  
• 05.10.2018

  Teaching the gospel using comedy with Shawn Rapier – Episode 15

  Nick Galieti (host-left), and Shawn Rapier (guest-right) This episode is all about "comedy" or “humor.” Shawn Rapier, regular contributor to our podcast where he interviews people to talk about their missions, and he also hosts the Latter-day Lives podcast. But some...

  
• 05.03.2018

  Influencers, Musicians, and Ventriloquists…oh my! The many forms of modern missionary work – Episode 14

  Nick Sales, LDS Musician and Influencer This episode is all about being an “mormon influencer.” An influencer is a term that advertising and public relations professionals use to describe people that have a certain influence over the public, be it an...

  
• 04.26.2018

  Going to the Temple for the First Time – Interview with Anthony Sweat – Episode 13

  Kelsey Edwards (Left), Anthony Sweat (Center), Nick Galieti (right) Welcome to the LDS MissionCast, this is your host Nick Galieti. On this episode Kelsey Edwards and I sit down with BYU scholar and professor, Anthony Sweat who wrote a book called...

  
• 04.19.2018

  From convert, to anti-mormon, to reconversion – Interview with Dusty Smith – Episode 12

  Dusty Smith (right) with "pen pal" Elder L. Tom Perry (left) Welcome to the LDS MissionCast. To those of you who are new listeners to our show, thank you for listening. We hope you enjoy what this podcast has to offer...

  
• 04.12.2018

  Dendo, Brazilian Stray Jogs, and a Tribute to Mission Companions – Episode 11 LDS MissionCast

  Welcome to the episode 11 of the LDS MissionCast. Our special guest on this episode is cartoonist and illustrator, Brittany Long Olsen. She has a really cool book out called Dendo: One Year and One Half in Tokyo. This book...

  
• 04.05.2018

  Trek: The Movie – Interviews with cast and crew – Episode 10

  This is our Trek: The Movie episode, where we feature interviews with Alan Peterson the Director and Producer of this upcoming movie being released by Deseret Book and Excel Entertainment. We also have an interview with David Howard the screen...

  
• 03.29.2018

  Resiliency for Mormon Missionaries – Brian Murdock Interview – Episode 9

  Resiliency is a trending concept in Mental Health circles and is talked about as the quality of an individual to "bounce back" from the trials and challenges, and to endure traumas. Missionaries encounter a number of factors that can impact...

  
• 03.22.2018

  Church History as a Missionary Tool with Casey Griffiths – Episode 8

  BYU professor of church history Casey Paul Griffiths discusses the 100 most important events in Latter-day Saint history at his Education Week class. Welcome to the episode 8 of the LDS MissionCast. This is Nick Galieti, and on this episode I...

  
• 03.15.2018

  Reacculturation of Mormon Missionaries with Kathleen Sheffield – Episode 7

  Kathleen  Sheffield has been a dance instructor at BYU since 1985. During her time at BYU she has had the opportunity to observe thousands of missionaries go and come home from serving a mission. She has studied the reacculturation that...

  
• 03.08.2018

  Talking is not Teaching – Interview with Taylor Halverson – Episode 6

  This week is part 2 where Taylor offers an approach he calls, “Talking is not Teaching.” It is a complete re-framing of the approach to teaching the gospel that mirrors much of what is being rolled out in Sunday schools...

  
• 03.01.2018

  Teach the Gospel using Metaphors and Analogies with Taylor Halverson – Episode 5 – LDS MissionCast

  Our first interview is a two part episode…sort of.  I interviewed Dr. Taylor Halverson who is a teaching and learning consultant at BYU. In other words, he helps teach BYU professors to be better teachers. He offers some much needed...

  
• 02.22.2018

  Music as a Missionary Tool with Garth Smith – Episode 4 – LDS MissionCast

  Music has a special way of communicating gospel principles and inspiration from the Spirit. Music can help in missionary efforts in a number of ways as well. This weeks main guest is Garth Smith. Garth and his wife present multi-media...

  
• 02.15.2018

  Missionary Mental Health with Annie Edwards – Episode 3

  Missionaries are not immune to the same mental health challenges experienced by a growing portion of the world's population. However, missionaries are typically called to learn their language, learn the gospel, and then teach the gospel so as to bring...

  
• 02.08.2018

  What Missionaries (and members) need to know about Islam – Interview with Daniel Peterson – Episode 2

  Daniel Peterson (left) and Nick Galieti (right - host) In this fascinating episode, Nick Galieti sits down with legendary BYU Scholar, Daniel C. Peterson, long time professor of Islamic Studies, and founder of The Mormon Interpreter Foundation (a tremendous resource for...

  
• 02.03.2018

  Meet the Mormons – The Craftsman Interview – Episode 1

  Nick, and his wife, Heidi Galieti, at the special screening of The Craftsman, Meet the Mormons. In our debut podcast episode, we had the pleasure of sitting down with Blair Treu (writer and director), Jenna Kim Jones (host/narrator), and Danny Sorensen...