Home Teaching
Church Needs to Fix Something
The Latter-day Saints are a covenant people. From the day of baptism through the spiritual milestones of our lives, we make promises with God and He makes promises with us. He always keeps His promises offered through His authorized servants, but it is the crucial test of our lives to see if we will make and keep our covenants with Him.
Read MoreThere Was This Home Teacher…
I not only reflect on the hearts and souls of …individual men, but also sorrow for their sweet wives and growing children. These men await a helping hand, an encouraging word, and a personal testimony of truth expressed from a heart filled with love and a desire to lift and to build.
Read MoreHome Teachers Made Converts
[The Lord’s] charge to us is to be with and strengthen our brethren. To those who diligently pursue such a course, miracles come to pass, evidenced by testimonies that declare “He was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.”
Read MoreResponsibilities of Shepherds
When I was a very small boy, my father found a lamb all alone out in the desert. The herd of sheep to which its mother belonged had moved on, and somehow the lamb got separated from its mother, and the shepherd must not have known that it was lost.
Read MoreParable of the Dead Arm
There was once a man who was asked to speak to the men of his stake. His assignment was to wake the priesthood brethren up to the performance of their duty. How to do it was the question that weighed on his mind day after day.
Read MoreHome Teaching at Its Best
A young American sailor stationed in Japan was given the assignment to be the home teacher of a part-member couple.
Read MorePriesthood Leadership Conference
One night some years ago I couldn’t sleep. To occupy my mind as I lay there in bed, I did a census. In my mind I went up and down every road and street in the town of Haines and the surrounding area. I was looking for Latter-day Saints. I did it twice. I did it as a 6-year-old, non-member of the Church, and again as a 56-year-old member.
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