Our ward’s supply of the new Daughters in my Kingdom: The History and Work of Relief Society is here! It came Thursday evening. Of course, I couldn’t wait and had to open the box immediately. They are lovely! They are beautiful blue soft-covered books with rounded corners that are just a bit larger than regular […]
Daughters in My Kingdom: The History and Work of Relief Society.
The new history about Relief Society is DONE!!! Can I get a big HOORAY!!!! Called Daughters in My Kingdom: The History and Work of Relief Society, it should be arriving to all English speaking church units soon. “Another blessing of the book I think will be, that it will break down some of the myths […]
2011 BYU Women’s Conference: More notes
Transcripts for the 2011 BYU Women’s Conference still aren’t up. Hopefully they will be soon! You can watch a few of the sessions starting tomorrow on BYUTV. Click here to see the schedule. For more detailed schedule times click here for Monday (Sister Beck’s is at 10:30am!), Tuesday, and Wednesday. I was kind of waiting […]
BYU Women’s Conference 2011: Sister Julie B. Beck
On Thursday I drove to Utah to pick up Bon Bon and Semisweet who were returning on Friday from their trip to Barcelona (more on that later). Mr. Ferrero Rocher stayed home with all the rest of the children and his sister came up to help. (Thank you!) Because I was alone on this trip […]
Snippets of Wisdom
There were so many good things to read in these week’s historical April 15, 1873 Women’s Exponent. I had a hard time deciding what to write on! So instead of trying to narrow it down I’m sharing some of my favorite ‘snippets of wisdom.’ The “influence of a smile” “There is nothing which makes the […]
Minnie Mable Lindsay Crook
Minnie Mable Lindsay and Frederick Crook Mother Minnie was my husband’s great-grandmother. She was of Scottish descent, fiesty when she wanted to be, and quite the cook. For this week’s Sunday Society post I am sharing snippets of Mother Minnie’s life as remembered by her posterity as well as some taken directly from her own […]
The Law of True Marriage
“Wherever,” says Gail Hamilton, “man pays reverence to woman – wherever any man feels the influence of woman purifying, chastening, abashing, strengthening him against temptation, shielding him from evil, ministering to his self respect, medicining his weariness, peopling his solitude, winning him from sordid prizes, enlivening his monotonous days with mirth or fancy or wit, […]
Women and the Spirit of Prophecy
I’ve slowly been reading through Women of Mormondom. A great book written back in 1877 containing vignettes about early women of the Restoration. I was drawn to a description given of these early sisters in the gospel. “Let us view them purely as prophetic women,who undertook to found their half of a new Christian empire.” […]
Sunday Society & Keepers at Home
In September 2010 Julie B. Beck, General President of the Relief Society, spoke to the women of the church about the importance of learning the history of Relief Society. Some of the many reasons she gave were: “Understanding the history of Relief Society strengthens the foundational identity and worth of faithful women.” “We study our […]