In a worldwide teacher training council meeting emanating from Salt Lake City, Elder Jeffrey R. Holland declared to teachers everywhere, “You can do this!”

Elder Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles presided over the event conducted by Brother Tad R. Callister, Sunday School General President, with participation from the other four general auxiliary presidents of the Church and 18 leaders and teachers who are members of their respective local teacher councils.

The 90-minute meeting was carried by live internet streaming to more than 140 councils in 10 languages, Brother Callister announced. The recorded proceedings were made accessible thereafter on the Church’s website, LDS.org.

“The purpose of this broadcast is to improve teaching in the Church,” Elder Holland said, adding that a Church-published printed resource, Teaching in the Savior’s Way, “helps us do exactly that.”

“We all want to teach like Jesus taught. His instruction was simple and direct and powerful. He often told stories or parables that people could readily understand. Without exception, His lessons were spiritually motivating. He loved His audience. And the ones who had ears to hear and eyes to see loved Him.”

Elder Holland said that kind of spiritual instruction and loving relationship between teacher and learner “is what we hope we can find existing in every home, classroom, and meetinghouse of the Church.”

Read more in www.lds.org