"Inspired instruction in the home and in the Church helps provide this
crucial element of nourishing by the good word of God. We are so
grateful to all who teach. We love you and appreciate you more than we
can say. We have great confidence in you. To teach effectively and to
feel you are succeeding is demanding work indeed. But it is worth it. We
can receive 'no greater call.'
Surely the opportunity to magnify that call exists everywhere.
The need for it is everlasting. Fathers, mothers, siblings, friends,
missionaries, home and visiting teachers, priesthood and auxiliary
leaders, classroom instructors—each is, in his or her own way, 'come
from God' for our schooling and our salvation. In this Church it is
virtually impossible to find anyone who is not a guide of one
kind or another to his or her fellow members of the flock. Little wonder
that Paul would say in his writings, 'God hath set some in the church,
first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers.'”
Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, "A Teacher Come From God," General Conference April 1998
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