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How Will Progress Be Measured and Reported?
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To accomplish the mission of the Church, leaders should encourage every member to receive all essential priesthood ordinances, keep the associated covenants, and qualify for exaltation and eternal life. Church leaders should use priesthood quorums, auxiliaries, and stake and ward councils to help produce the following results:
Families Teach the preeminence of the home and family as
Adults the basic organizational unit of the Church.
Encourage each family member, parents and children, to study the scriptures, pray regularly, and follow the example of the Savior in all things.
Encourage each adult to be worthy to receive the
Youth ordinances of the temple. Teach all adults to identify their ancestors and perform sacred temple ordinances for them.
Help prepare each young man to receive the
Melchizedek Priesthood, to receive the ordinances of the temple, and to be worthy to serve a fulltime mission. Help prepare each young woman to be worthy to make and keep sacred covenants and receive the ordinances of the temple.
All
Members
Leaders, members, and ward and full-time missionaries work cooperatively in a balanced effort to help convert, retain, and activate our
Heavenly Father's children. Teach members to provide for themselves, their families, and the poor and needy in the Lord's way.
This emphasis will continue until steady improvement is apparent.
September 29, 1995

There is another body of water found throughout the
Church today. I speak of the pool of prospective elders in each ward and each stake. Picture in your mind a river of water gushing into the pool. Then consider a trickle of water emerging from that stagnated pool—a trickle which represents those going forward into the Melchizedek
Priesthood. The pool of prospective elders is becoming larger and wider and deeper more rapidly than any of us can fully appreciate.
It is essential, even critical, that we study the Aaronic
Priesthood pathway, since far too many boys falter, stumble, then fall without advancing into the quorums of the Melchizedek Priesthood, thereby eroding the active priesthood base of the Church and curtailing the activity of loving wives and precious children.
What can we as leaders do to reverse this trend? The place to begin is at the headwaters of the Aaronic
Priesthood stream.
—Thomas S. Monson, “The Priesthood—Mighty Army of the Lord”
Ensign, May 1999, p. 48
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Wherefore, now let every man learn his duty, and to act in the office in which he is appointed, in all diligence.
—Doctrine & Covenants 107:99
53 The teacher's duty is to watch over the church always, and be with and strengthen them;
54 And see that there is no iniquity in the church, neither hardness with each other, neither lying, backbiting, nor evil speaking;
55 And see that the church meet together often, and also see that all the members do their duty.
56 And he is to take the lead of meetings in the absence of the elder or priest—
57 And is to be assisted always, in all his duties in the church, by the deacons, if occasion requires.
58 But neither teachers nor deacons have authority to baptize, administer the sacrament, or lay on hands;
59 They are, however, to warn, expound, exhort, and teach, and invite all to come unto Christ.
—Doctrine and Covenants 20:53-59
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