Quick Quotes on Home Teaching
 



“I hope that home teachers and visiting teachers will experience two things: first, the challenge of the responsibility that is in their great calling, and second, the sweetness of results from their work, particularly with those among us who are less active. I hope that these teachers will get on their knees and pray for direction, and then go to work to bring these wandering prodigals back into the fold of the Church. If home and visiting teachers respond to this challenge, I honestly believe that they will taste the sweet and wonderful feeling which comes of being an instrument in the hands of the Lord in leading someone back into activity in His church and kingdom.
(Instruments of the Lord,” Ensign, March 1997.)
 

“I am making a plea for us to reach out to our brethren and sisters who have known the beauty and the wonder of this restored gospel for a brief season and then for some reason have left it. (Instruments of the Lord,” Ensign, March 1997.)
 

“May all home teachers recognize that they have an inescapable responsibility to go into the homes of the people and teach them to live the gospel principles more faithfully, to see that there is no iniquity or backbiting or evil speaking, to build faith, to see that the families are getting along temporally. That is a very serious responsibility; it really is. But it is not a heavy burden—it just takes a little more faith. It is worthy of our very best effort.”  (Instruments of the Lord,” Ensign, March 1997.)
 

"Every one of you [teachers and priests] should be given the assignment to home teach with a companion who holds the Melchizedek Priesthood. What an opportunity to prepare for a mission. What a privilege to learn the discipline of duty. A young man will automatically turn from concern for self when he is assigned to 'watch over' others (D&C 20:53)." -Thomas S. Monson, "Do Your Duty--That Is Best," Ensign, Nov. 2005, 57
 

  "How does one magnify a calling? Simply by performing the service that pertains to it.  It is in doing--not just dreaming--that lives are blessed, others are guided, and souls are saved.  'Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves,' declared James (James 1:22).  May [we] make a renewed effort to qualify for the Lord's guidance in our lives. There are so many out there who plead and pray for help.  There are those who are discouraged, those who long to return but who don't know how to begin.  ". . . Let us have ready hands, clean hands, and willing hearts, that we may participate in providing what our Heavenly Father would have others receive from Him."  -Thomas S. Monson, "True to Our Priesthood Trust," Ensign, Nov. 2006, 58


“Home teaching is not just another program. It is the priesthood way of watching over the Saints and accomplishing the mission of the Church. Home teaching is not just an assignment. It is a sacred calling. Home teaching is not to be undertaken casually. A home teaching call is to be accepted as if extended to you personally by the Lord Jesus Christ. The Savior Himself was a teacher. The only perfect man to walk the face of the earth was a humble, dedicated, inspired teacher who brought to His followers salvation and exaltation.”
President Ezra Taft Benson (1899–1994), “To the Home Teachers of the Church,” Ensign, May 1987, 48.

 

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