Home Teaching Corner

"When I choose to talk of priesthood home teaching, I full well realize there are some activities in the Church that are more exciting and some more interesting. Perhaps even most have more appeal.... I repeat, some activities may have much more appeal, but there is none that is more important... There can flow through this channel a redeeming spiritual power to the limits of heaven itself.

“Through home teaching, tragedies have been averted. Sinking souls have been lifted... To you who are home teachers—you who perform the routine visit, not infrequently considered a drudgery—do not take the assignment lightly or pass it off as being routine. Every hour you spend in it and every step you take in it and every door you knock upon, every home you greet, every encouragement you give, is twice a blessing.... I have heard men say in response to a question about their Church assignment, “I am only a home teacher.” Only a home teacher. Only the guardian of a flock. Only the one appointed where the ministry matters most. Only a servant of the Lord!"

(President Boyd K. Packer. His Saints Securely Dwell. October 1972 General Conference Address.)