As a 23-year-old grad student, I asked a bishop about receiving my endowment. He laughed. He apologized and explained that he was laughing because of the timing: the stake president had just told them...
After my preemie son died, our bishop called us in the hospital. He comforted us by saying he was terribly sorry that our baby had died, and that our baby, according to the doctrine...
My mother was the Relief Society president in a ward that had a very high birth rate and a tiny mother’s room with just one or two chairs in it. Women, of course, were...
I was scheduled to speak first in Sacrament Meeting but realized right before the meeting started that I had left my talk on the kitchen table. I asked my husband to run get it...
I give answers in Sunday school, and the teacher says “Okay… Next comment?” And a man paraphrases my answer as his own and gets lauded for his thinking. – Jennifer When I was...
A pedestal is a small stand to mount something on. It is a base for something decorative such as a statue, vase, or column. Figuratively, it is a place for some respected or highly...
One time I was in a meeting of all the Young Women presidencies in the stake, and we met in the high council room where there were a bunch of tables and chairs. I...
Last year about this time, I was working with a group of primary children on a special musical number for Thanksgiving. I had jumped through the hoops to get a “non-canon” song approved, and...
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