Name: Sisters Participation in the Gathering of Israel
Uploaded: 2019-03-24T07:09:30.000Z
Duration: 16 min 19 s
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It is wonderful to be with you, my dear and precious sisters.

Perhaps a recent experience will give you a glimpse

Your supernal abilities separate you from the rest of the world.

You are endowed with such extraordinary capacity.

Well, by way of confession, I'll say that one day while I was

speaking to a congregation in South America,

I became exceedingly excited about my topic,

and at a pivotal moment I said, "As the mother of 10 children,

And then I went on to complete my message.

I did not realize I had said the word mother.

so the congregation never knew that I had

In that moment, the deep longing of my heart to make

a difference in the world--like only a mother does--bubbled up

been asked why I chose to become a medical doctor,

my answer was always the same: "Because I could not

Please note that any time I use the word mother,

who have given birth or adopted children in this life.

I am speaking about all of our Heavenly Parents' adult

Every woman is a mother by virtue of her eternal divine

So tonight, as the father of 10 children--nine daughters

and one son--and as President of the Church,

I pray that you will sense how deeply I feel about you--about

No one else can do what a righteous woman can do.

No one can duplicate the influence of a mother.

Men can and often do communicate the love of Heavenly Father

But women have a special gift for it--a divine endowment.

You have the capacity to sense what someone needs--and when

You can reach out, comfort, teach, and strengthen someone

Women see things differently than men do, and oh,

Your nature leads you to think of others first,

to consider the effect that any course of action

As President Eyring pointed out, it was our glorious Mother

Eve--with her far-reaching vision of our Heavenly

Father's plan--who initiated what we call "the Fall."

Her wise and courageous choice and Adam's supporting decision

They made it possible for each of us to come to earth,

would choose to stand up for Jesus Christ now,

My dear sisters, you have special spiritual gifts

Tonight I urge you, with all the hope of my heart,

to pray to understand your spiritual gifts--to cultivate,

use, and expand them even more than you ever have.

When you are truly ministering, you follow your feelings

to help someone else experience more of the Savior's love.

The inclination to minister is inherent in righteous women.

I know women who pray every day, "Whom wouldst Thou have

about the higher and holier way of caring for others,

the tendency of some men was to check off their home teaching

assignment as "done" and move on to the next task.

But when you sensed that a sister you were visiting

teaching needed help, you responded immediately and then

that inspired our upward shift to ministering.

we also restructured Melchizedek Priesthood quorums.

When we wrestled with how to help the men of the Church

be more effective in their responsibilities,

we carefully considered the example of the Relief Society.

In Relief Society, women in various ages and stages of life

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