home teaching is an inspired program

My good brethren of the Melchizedek Priesthood and the Aaronic Priesthood, home teaching is an inspired program.

• It is the heart of caring, of loving, of reaching out to the one—both the active and the less active.
• It is priesthood compassionate service.
• It is how we express our faith in practical works.
• It is one of the tests of true discipleship.
• It is the heart of the activation effort of the Church.
• It is a calling that helps to fulfill the scriptural injunction: "Out of small things proceedeth that which is great" (D&C 64:33).

There is no greater Church calling than that of a home teacher. There is no greater Church service rendered to our Father in Heaven's children than the service rendered by a humble, dedicated, committed home teacher.

Ezra Taft Benson, "To the Home Teachers of the Church," Ensign, May 1987, 48