This is an excerpt from my book The Twenty-Five Minute Teacher.

Beginning August 2026, I’ll be launching a new weekly Twenty-five Minute Teacher newsletter for all Teacher’s Circle Subscribers.

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If you are reading this because you were called to teach last Sunday, or last month, and you have been a member of the Church for a few years, this is for you. You may be teaching elders quorum, Relief Society, or Sunday school in the new shorter block. You probably feel two things at once. Honored to be trusted with the calling. Worried that you do not know enough yet.

The good news is that you do not need to know enough yet. You need to know a few things, do them well, and let the Holy Ghost teach what you have not yet learned. The Lord called you knowing exactly what you know and what you have yet to learn. Trust the call.

Here is the eighty percent of the discipline you need before next Sunday.