Supporting Statements
Boyd K. Packer
The Apostle Paul told the Saints in his time “to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you; And esteem them very highly in love for the work’s sake.” (1 Thessa-lonians 5:12-13.) He pled with the members to “pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified.” (2 Thessalonians 3:1.) He also indicated the manner in which the Apostles labored. They “exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children.” (1 Thessalonians 2:11.)
It is with fatherly love that the Lord’s servants come and go as they labor among the people in this day.1
- Boyd K. Packer, That All May Be Edified (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1982), 8. ↩︎
