Mormon Apostle Emphasizes Parental Need to Bring Up Children in Light and Truth
Image: Mormon, Mormon Apostle, Tom Perry, Reflects on Mother's Faithfulness
Elder Perry emphasizes need for teaching Mormon doctrine in the home.
“Teach by the cradle-side; teach by example and teach by precept,” encourages Mormon apostle, Elder Perry. We believe in the immense power that teaching brings, indicates Elder Ballard.
Elder Tom Perry addresses Mormon membership and other guests and friends of all faiths about lessons he learned from his faithful mother, and demanding teacher.
Apostle Perry recalls his mothers’ preparatory work for teaching sisters in teh Mormon’s women’s organization known as Relief Society. He saw notebooks full of her learning and study for respective lessons, much more than could be applied in one forty-five minute lesson to the ladies of the Church. Elder Perry remains convinced that while some of the teaching occurred within the Sunday classroom, the rest of those instructions and in fact, all of those, were also used and primarily used, to teach her children. They were not lost but were an investment in her primary call–to teach the gospel in the home which presents another “layer of insulation” against the onslaught of the opposition in our day.
Elder Perry’s mother’s focus included spiritual and secular teaching. She would practice her Relief Society lessons on Elder Perry and his siblings–realizing that the most important teachings were those geared for her children and given in the home. She taught while churning butter, doing the dishes, and during school assignments.
“The parents’ teaching must never be de-valued” though we live in a different time than that of my mother. This is particularly true when we teach ethical values. ” In a world where the adversary seeks to destroy the foundation of society,” it’s increasingly important that this education take place in the home.
Application of his message includes teaching with
- one meal
- one family home evening
- one prayer
- one teaching
at a time.
Of this most sacred duty, Elder Perry bore apostolic witness.
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