The Lord has so ordained that a number of generations shall be contemporary in sojourning upon this earth … What a splendid thing it is to have grandfathers and grandmothers, and even great grandfathers and great grandmothers, four or five generations sometimes contemporary, living upon the earth at the same time! What a wonderful advantage that is to mankind, an advantage to the aged, and an advantage to the young, to live and to mingle together and to partake of each other’s feeling and spark! …

Old age can learn much from youth. They keep us abreast with the times; they keep us alive to the burning questions of the day. Therefore, you fathers and mothers, let us listen to the young with sympathetic hearts while they endeavor to instruct us, which they sometimes feel themselves quite competent to do. But, oh youth, you have much to learn from old age! Out of the rich experiences of many years your elders are surely able to instruct you in the way of life, in the principles of truth.

– Rulon S. Wells (First Council of the Seventy), 1934