Visiting Teaching Message
Teaching and Learning the
Gospel
Prayerfully study
this material and, as appropriate, discuss it with the sisters you visit. Use the questions to help you strengthen your
sisters to make Relief Society an active part of your own life. For more information, go to reliefsociety.lds.org
Teaching and Learning the Gospel
Jesus Christ was a master
teacher. He set the example for us as he
“taught women in multitudes and as individuals, on the street and by the
seashore, at the well and in their homes.
He showed loving-kindness toward them and healed them and their family
members.”¹
He taught Martha and Mary and
‘invited them to become His disciples and partake of salvation, ’that good
part’ [Luke 10:42] that would never be taken from them.”²
In our latter-day scriptures,
the Lord commanded us to “teach one another the doctrine of the kingdom”
(D&C 88:77). Of teaching and
learning doctrine, Cheryl A. Esplin, second counselor in the Primary general Presidency,
said, “Learning to fully understand the doctrines of the gospel is a process of
a lifetime and comes ‘line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and
there a little’ (2 Nephi 28:30).”³
As we learn, study, and pray,
we will teach with the power of the Holy Ghost, who will carry our message
“unto the hearts of the children of men [and women]” (2 Nephi 33:1).
From the Scriptures
Doctrine and Covenants
42:12-13; 84:85
From Our History
Our past prophets have
reminded us as women that we have an important role as teachers in the home and
Church. In September 1979, President
Spencer W. Kimball (1895-1985) asked us to become sister scriptorians.” He said: “Become scholars of the
scriptures—not to put others down, but to lift them up! After all, who has any
greater need to ‘treasure up’ the truths of the gospel (on which they may call
in their moments of need) then do women and mothers who do so much nurturing
and teaching?”4
What Can I Do?
1. How am I prepared to be a better teacher?
2. Do I share my testimony with the sisters I
watch over?
Notes
1. See Daughters
in My Kingdom: The History and Work of
Relief Society (2011), 3.
2. See Daughters
in My Kingdom: The History and Work of
Relief Society (2011), 4.
3. Cheryl A. Esplin, “Teaching Our Children to
Understand,” Ensign, May 2012, 12.
4. Spencer W. Kimball, in Daughters in My Kingdom,50.
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