Disciple Leadership

This week has been an exciting week with readings from our great leaders such as Elder David A. Bednar, President Kim B. Clark of our great Church. With which Elder David A. Bednar spoke about all missionary training centers having a common characteristics as well as Brigham Young University–Idaho in Rexburg possesses these same characteristics.

If I am to concentrate on BYU–Idaho it is located in a rather isolated geographic area.

            • By and large, students are enrolled at BYU–Idaho for a relatively short period of time.

            • The learning and teaching processes at BYU–Idaho are focused and intense.

            • There is at BYU–Idaho a distinguishing standard of deportment and dress.

            • And as was announced by the First Presidency last December, BYU–Idaho will soon be adjacent to a temple.

Infact Elder David A. Bednar spoke about Disciple Preparation Center—a DPC. As we attend this institution he said, we will experience unparalleled spiritual resources that can assist us in developing and deepening our devotion as disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ. That is the primary and most important reason for the existence of Brigham Young University-Idaho and for its sponsorship by and affiliation with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

President Kim B. Clark also spoke about the call to be a disciple-leader as a call to minister and to serve.  It is a call to lead as Christ leads.  It is leadership with a small “L”—the kind of leadership that builds and lifts and inspires through kindness and love and unselfish devotion to the Lord and His work.  It is the kind of leadership that we need at every level of every kind of organization in the world and in every ward and stake in the Church.  It is the kind of leadership you will need to build an eternal family.

That is what we are being trained for and I am grateful to the for being in this institution.