https://lds.org/general-conference/1984/10/learning-our-fathers-will?lang=eng
Elder Packer -- Teach the Children
http://lds.org/ensign/2000/02/teach-the-children?lang=eng
My Soul Delighteth in the Scriptures -- Julie B. Beck -- First Counselor in the Young Women General Presidency
http://lds.org/general-conference/2004/04/my-soul-delighteth-in-the-scriptures?lang=eng
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-an
a suffix occurring originally in adjectives borrowed from Latin, formed from nouns denoting places ( Roman; urban ) or persons ( Augustan ), and now productively forming English adjectives by extension of the Latin pattern. Attached to geographic names, it denotes provenance or membership ( American; Chicagoan; Tibetan ), the latter sense now extended to membership in social classes, religious denominations, etc., in adjectives formed from various kinds of noun bases ( Episcopalian; pedestrian; Puritan; Republican ) and membership in zoological taxa ( acanthocephalan; crustacean ). Attached to personal names, it has the additional senses “contemporary with” ( Elizabethan; Jacobean ) or “proponent of” ( Hegelian; Freudian ) the person specified by the noun base. The suffix -an, and its variant -ian also occurs in a set of personal nouns, mainly loanwords from french, denoting one who engages in, practices, or works with the referent of the base noun ( comedian; grammarian; historian; theologian ); this usage is esp. productive with nouns ending in -ic ( electrician; logician; technician ). See -ian for relative distribution with that suffix.
Citation:
"-an." Dictionary.com Unabridged. Random House, Inc. 15 Jan. 2011. <Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/-an>.
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http://radio.lds.org/eng/programs/mormon-identities-episode-38
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