LDS Church News: Elder Holland teaches by the spirit

By Shaun D. Stahle

Church News staff writer

Published: Thursday, July 9 2009 12:17 a.m. MDT

\"My assignment tonight is to address the very broad subject of the role of the Holy Ghost in missionary work, with special emphasis on 'teaching by the Spirit,' \" said Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve, speaking to nearly 600 Mormon missionaries in the Provo Missionary Training Center, and another 100 mission presidents and their wives attending the 2009 New Mission Presidents Seminar, June 26.

\"I have entitled these remarks 'The Divine Companionship,'\" he said.

\"My point tonight is to stress that the Spirit must be with you and you must teach by it when you teach because that is the way the lesson ceases to be your lesson and becomes His, becomes under the power of the Spirit a vehicle for lifting your investigators out of the temporal world.See the full story on ldschurchnews.com.


This story is provided by the LDS Church News, an official publication of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It is produced weekly by the Deseret News.

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