The "Commitment Pattern" is the sales technique that Mormon missionaries are trained to employ during their 2-year missions. Training in this method of "deal-closing" usually lasts for at least 2 months and takes place at the Missionary Training Center in Provo, Utah.
Here are a couple of pages that break this process down for you: a brief discussion and the full shebang. Of course, if you want to go through the whole course, yourself, you can scan Ebay for copies of "The Missionary Guide".
Right now, it's only listing "The Missionary Pal", an unofficial collection of supposed proof-texts for Mormon doctrine, a must-have if you want to get a handle on the sorts of wacky scriptural exegesis your more-"studious" Mormon missionary might throw at you. While you're shopping, you might as well pick up "The Day of Defense", a fictional theological debate between a pair of Mormon missionaries and every other Christian sect under the sun. (Guess who comes out the winners?)
Searching for "missionary discussions" (the 6 hour-long lessons that the "investigator" of Mormonism must sit through) also resulted in no relevant matches. I'm guessing that the official publications that were used by Mormon missionaries, at least during my mission, are snatched off of Ebay as quickly as they appear?
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