Boyd K. Packer wrote:
“As I begin a new relationship with anyone—students, missionaries, or those with whom I associate or whom I supervise—It is on the basis of confidence and trust. I have been much happier since. Of course there have been times when I have been disappointed, and a few times when I have been badly used. I do not care about that. Who am I not to be so misused or abused? Why should I be above that? If that is the price of extending trust to everyone, I am glad to pay it.
I have come to be much less afraid of that possibility than I was before. It is sometimes painful when one is misused or when trust or confidence is not honored. That kind of pain, however, is not unbearable, for it is only pain, it is not agony. The only agony I know is when I discover inadvertently I have misused someone else. That is torture; that I will avoid. Boyd K. Packer (deceased), Mine Errand From the Lord (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2008), 541
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