The bulk of the growth during this time happens within - the fruit may not be too evident externally. It becomes a more active time. Most of the learning is through doing. Even here, though, much of the fruit is inside the believer, not out in the field. She knows parts of the Kingdom that simply aren t for her.
Productivity simply doesn t happen.
In this time they can tell you, if you ask, what their particular spiritual gifts are. And they seek to focus on them. Then, finally, is Phase 5. Paul is in Phase 5 during Romans 15. Not every believer gets there.