By Elder Boyd K. Packer

Of the Quorum of the Twelve

Boyd K. Packer, "The Candle of the Lord", Ensign, Jan. 1983, 51


From a talk given at a seminar for new mission presidents, 25 June 1982. 03157_000_017

I have chosen, after much thought, to speak as though your missionaries, your elders and sisters, were here in your place, and to present thoughts more fitted to them, the beginners, the inexperienced, than to you. I hope that through you, I may share with them some things I have learned about the Spirit and how we may prepare ourselves to receive it.

We do not learn spiritual things in exactly the same way we learn other things that we know, even though such things as reading, listening, and pondering may be used. I have learned that it requires a special attitude both to teach and to learn spiritual things. There are some things you know, or may come to know, that you will find quite difficult to explain to others. I am very certain that it was meant to be that way.