Above All, Testify

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland

"Don't try to dazzle everyone with how brilliant you are. Dazzle them with how brilliant the gospel is. Don't worry about the location of the lost tribes or the Three Nephites. Worry a little more about the location of your student, what's going on in his heart, what's going on in her soul, the hunger, sometimes the near-desperate spiritual needs of our people. Teach them. And, above all, testify to them. Love them. Bear your witness from the depths of your soul. It will be the most important thing you say to them in the entire hour, and it may save someone's spiritual life."

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, "Teaching and Learning in the Church," Liahona, June 2007, 72; Ensign, June 2007, 104.

See also Teaching, No Greater Call online at lds.org/gospellibrary/materials/teachingnogreatercall.pdf.

Notes

1.

Russell M. Nelson, "The New Gospel Principles Manual," Liahona, Jan. 2010, 23–24; Ensign, Jan. 2010, 29–30.

2.

Gospel Principles (2009), 2.

3.

Gospel Principles, 5.