April 1995 General Conference Priesthood Session

Jeffrey R. Holland -Our Priesthood Legacy

• When you are young not all of life's questions and difficulties have arisen yet, but they will arise, and unfortunately, for your generation, they will arise at a younger and younger age.
• "In every place a man now stands, a boy once used to be."
• He was simply a spiritual giant, always larger than life, leaving his children a legacy of devotion and courage longer than all eternity.

Monte J. Brough -Search for Identity

• Another important quality to emulate is humor in the face of challenge.

Helvecio Martins -"Watchmen on the Tower"

• This is the work or the stewardship of the home teacher: to feed, to nourish and quench the thirst of the sheep who are assigned to him as a shepherd.
• It is worth noting the way the Lord prepares our spirit and mind, without our realizing it, to obtain this high level of understanding.
• Home teachers "carry the heavy and glorious responsibility of representing the Lord Jesus Christ in looking after the welfare of each member."
• "The most worthy calling in life ... is that in which man can serve best his fellow man."

James E. Faust -Responsibilities of Shepherds

• There is no greater responsibility than that of being a husband and a father.
• "(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)"

Thomas S. Monson -That All May Hear

• "How can I [find my way], except some man should guide me?"
• First, prepare with purpose.
• "The kind of men we want as bearers of this Gospel message are men who have faith in God; men who have faith in their religion; men who honor their priesthood; men in whom the people who know them have faith and in whom God has confidence. ... We want men full of the Holy Ghost and the power of God. ... Men who bear the words of life among the nations, ought to be men of honor, integrity, virtue and purity; and this being the command of God to us, we shall try and carry it out."
• Second, teach with testimony
• Third, labor with love.
• There is no substitute for love.
• Young men, wherever you are called will be right for you, and you will learn to love your mission.
• "Be ready always to give an answer to every [one] that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you."

Gordon B. Hinckley -This Work Is Concerned with People

• "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you." This office is not one to be sought after. The right to select rests with the Lord.

Until you next read these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!

-Sarnic Dirchi