testing 123 testing 123 this is radio free Mormon on the air broadcasting behind enemy

lines tonight's episode on teaching Sunday school now as every Latter-day Saint

knows there is no greater calling than teaching in fact there are teachers

throughout every ward in the church there are teachers of the primary kids

there are teachers of the young women there are teachers of the young men

there are teachers of the grownups there are teachers every step along the way

in the LDS church structure and as fate would have it I have been a teacher in

various callings throughout my membership in the LDS church my first teaching

calling came shortly after I was baptized back in 1978 and I was called to

teach the eight-year-old class I had absolutely no idea what I was going to

teach them I did not know anything about the gospel I knew nothing about the

scriptures and I was actually terrified to teach the eight-year-olds and

thank God that the church provided me with a manual so I could read through the

lesson and I could use that as my tool to teach my classes I also remember

that on one day a member of the primary presidency and this is just the word

primary presidency was going to visit in my class to observe me teaching these

eight-year-olds and frankly I was terrified if you can imagine I was terrified

that this primary president would see how I taught be horrified by it and I would

be weighed in the balances and found wanting because I was so scared about the

entire situation I even remember what the subject matter of that class was and

it was the book of Job of course it was an extremely simplified version of

teaching the book of Job because it was designed for the eight-year-olds and

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