I read it and I was a little annoyed, but I shrugged it off. Earlier this year, there was a post on my Facebook news feed that disparaged Christianity. Being articulate means to clearly express how you feel about something and why. And just like all of us, she isn’t perfect, but she knows how to repent and to keep trying. She is righteous she has a wide-open heart for others who have made mistakes and want to change. She said she learned that Jesus Christ was stronger than even her terrible circumstances and that she could rely on His strength as she walked the road of repentance.īy coming back to the Lord and His ways, she changed the course of her history and her little boy’s history and her new husband’s. But one night, she looked at the chaos and mess of her life and thought, “Enough.” She cried out to the Savior Jesus Christ to help her. She became pregnant from a brief relationship, and her addictions continued. I have a friend who was in a car accident when she was young, and from that, she became addicted to pain medication. Women who have repented change the course of history. It means developing an inner connection with God, repenting of our sins and mistakes, and freely helping others. Being righteous doesn’t mean being perfect or never making mistakes. Well, how do we play our part? What should we do? President Kimball refers to five things: They may or may not be members of the Church right now, but we connect in friendship that is very important. You know them too among your friends and neighbors. I have met so many of these good women as I do my work around the world. President Kimball called these women from other backgrounds “heroines” who will be more concerned with being righteous than selfish, who will show us that integrity is more valuable than visibility. The friendships that Relief Society women, young women, and Primary girls build with sincere, faithful, godly women and girls of other faiths and beliefs will be a significant force in how the Church grows in the last days. It will be the good relationships of women that will trigger much of the major growth coming to the Church in the years ahead. “… It will be … female exemplars of the Church will be a significant force in both the numerical and the spiritual growth of the Church in the last days.” 3 These real heroines have true humility, which places a higher value on integrity than on visibility. “Among the real heroines in the world who will come into the Church are women who are more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish. This will happen to the degree that the women of the Church reflect righteousness and articulateness in their lives and to the degree that the women of the Church are seen as distinct and different-in happy ways-from the women of the world. Much of the major growth that is coming to the Church in the last days will come because many of the good women of the world … will be drawn to the Church in large numbers. “Finally, my dear sisters, may I suggest to you something that has not been said before or at least in quite this way. Let me quote a little of what President Kimball said: Near the end, there was an electrifying charge to the women of the Church that we have been talking about ever since. Sister Kimball read the prophet’s words, which emphasized the influence of LDS women on the good women of the world prior to the Second Coming of the Savior. Sister Camilla Kimball speaking at the pulpit
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