Who can forget Elder Holland's awesome Conference talk? Well, in it he said, "Except in the case of His only perfect Begotten Son, imperfect people are all God has ever had to work with. That must be terribly frustrating to Him, but He deals with it. So should we."

 

What this breaks down to is that some people are easier to help than others. We're all imperfect, but sometimes we think we're not...maybe we think we're better than someone else because of (insert illogical, selfish reason here). We would all prefer to help those who are easier because, well, it's easier! The problem is, the easy ones don't challenge us, and it's only through challenges that we learn.

 

Maybe you think that it's only the other person who is learning when you are teaching, but this is incorrect; in any teaching situation it is both parties who are learning. The teacher learns from the student just as the student learns from the teacher. So if we're only learning from the easy students, then in actuality, we're not learning at all. Don't avoid the difficult people because they're frustrating, accept the challenge that they represent because both of you will learn something from the encounter.