Welcome to part two of this week's podcast.

The Unwritten Order of Things, a devotional by Elder Boyd K. Packer given in October of 1996.

I speak to you today as a teacher.

I reflect the influence of a teacher that I knew more than 50 years ago.

As is often the case, the influence of that teacher did not center on the subject he taught.

Dr. Scheverf was a professor of mathematics at Washington State University at Pullman, Washington.

He was quite unimpressive in appearance. I don't remember his first name, but I shall never forget the first thing he said, the first day we met.

It was during World War II. We were in pilot training and had been sent to the university for what we were told would be a crash course

in meteorology, weather, navigation, physics, aerodynamics, and other technical subjects.

We thought the title crash course was not very encouraging to student pilots. The word intense

would have been better. The pressure was enormous because those who failed the course would

be washed out of the pilot program.

I was in competition with cadets, many of whom had been in college, some of them who had

some advanced training while I had barely escaped from high school.

Dr. Schiver was to take us from basic mathematics through calculus in just a matter of weeks.

I thought it was hopeless until the first few minutes in the class in the first class.

He began the class with this announcement.

While many of you have had some college, even advanced courses in what we are to study,

it would be my purpose to teach the beginners.

I'm asking those of you who know the subject to be patient,

while I teach the basics to those who do not. Encouraged by what he said and more by how he

taught, I was able to pass the course with reasonable ease, but it might otherwise have been

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