It’s the questions we can’t answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he’ll look for his own answers.
Ward leaders are not the “best” people; they are merely the best people for the callings they have at the time they have them. And you are the best person for the calling you have — as long as you strive to make it so.
Here is the great secret that I have learned in my 58 years of life in the villages of Mormondom — there is no calling in which you cannot earn the love and honor of those whom you serve, or serve with.
There is no calling that will get you to heaven faster than another.
There are no members so extraordinary that they can’t be replaced with others who will do their old callings well enough — or better.