Each of you who teach seminary and institute
has the desire of the heart to be an angel.
This is good, but it is a great temptation
to play the part of the Pied Piper
and to figure that you're going to gather them around you,
and that their love for you, and that you will love them
into their testimony, and to feel
if you can become very popular, you can lead them as their role
model and make a difference in their lives.
This is all good.
However, I want to say while this is true to a degree,
it is one of the greatest mistakes when a teacher turns
the students to themselves rather than to The Lord.
As teachers, we must ponder about this.
There is nothing more dangerous than when a student turns
their love and attention to a teacher, in the same way
a convert sometimes does to a missionary, and not the Lord.
And when the missionary leaves or when the teacher leaves,
then they conduct their life in a contrary way.
The student is devastated.
His testimony falters.
His faith is destroyed.
The really great teacher is careful to have
the students turn themselves to The Lord.
Once we have touched the lives of the youth,
we have to turn them to God the Father and His Son,
our redeemer and savior Jesus Christ,
through prayer, study, and application of those things
that they are taught in gospel principles
to do in their lives.