Do we know that she is a perfected, immortal being, as our Heavenly Father is? Because we do ask different questions. I was raised in a home where Heavenly Mother was really obvious. I don’t want to, I’m very, very clear that I’m quoting them and trying to bring statements together and helping us understand things. Aubrey: Alright, tonight our guest is Barbara Morgan Gardner. Accessing the power of God requires the same things that the Lord instructed Emma, and all other Latter-day Saint women, to do, he said. After receiving more than 5,000 questions, the presidents of all the women-led organizations of the Church gathered for a historic Sister to Sister event to address the issues women of the Church face in the latter days. With not just the fake love, the best love that you can. And she was always seeking to help her community, serving as a member of . I hope in no way when we’re talking, I know we’re talking about family and we’re trying to make sure that we get the temple and everything else here, but I want to also make it very clear that there is a purpose for men holding the priesthood. Yes. And in this case, he clearly is talking about the temple so you can see that it’s there. Speaker 6: [Colby 00:49:24] has got a question. I think just like we’re talking about creation, I believe love is also part of the priesthood. In the family, there is no president and counselor. So I think you’re right on the money on that. And we actually sat down with Valerie Hudson a couple months ago, and she said something that really stuck with me. President Russell M. Nelson speaks during the general women's session of the October 2019 general conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Saturday, October 5, 2019. "I'm a fan of fewer meetings and I think this change makes the women's session more equivalent to the priesthood session," said Salt Lake City's Naomi Watkins, co-founder of Aspiring Mormon Women, a Facebook discussion forum. Barbara: My grandmother committed suicide because my grandfather was trying to force her to have an abortion. “So, I invite you to study prayerfully section 25 of the Doctrine and Covenants and discover what the Holy Ghost will teach you. It’s basically the infrastructure. I’ve heard it sometimes, some men will say, “So what do we have? And at the end of the prayer, he just like fell into my arms and he was limp and just, his heart wasn’t beating so fast, and I knew that it was God’s power. Found inside – Page 179The most conspicuous and effective group is the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), composed of the heads of the vast majority of religious congregations of women in the United States.62 In the previous chapter I recounted ... Why don’t I have the priesthood? The Lord instructed Emma to expound the scriptures, to exhort the Church, to receive the Holy Ghost, and to spend her time ‘learning much.’ Emma was also counseled to lay aside the things of this world and seek for the things of a better, and to hold fast to her covenants with God. Barbara Morgan Gardner is an associate professor of Church history and doctrine at Brigham Young University, and the author of The Priesthood Power of Women. Again, and what we hear about presiding in the church is defined. It enlarges by making it possible for priesthood authority and blessings to be available for all of God's chil-dren. I don't think she is just saying 'you already have the priesthood' but is saying that we tap into the power of the priesthood (which is bigger than men's roles vs. women's roles) by fulfilling our 'half' of the plan. Barbara: And so that’s partially what this book is. A man doesn’t go to the temple and receive keys of presiding. When we’re talking about priesthood, there are really two definitions of priesthood. But then in the Women's Session of the October 2019 general conference President Nelson invited all the women of the Church to "study prayerfully all the truths you can find about priesthood power" . But it literally was a white van. Barbara: One of the biggest problems that we have is that power and authority delegated to man on the Earth is perhaps the tusk of the elephant, but it’s in the church, historically, we’re constantly talking about just the tusk, and very rarely are we talking about the entire elephant. And that’s painful. I know that my mom talked about her. Every woman and every man who makes covenants with God and keeps those covenants, and who participates worthily in priesthood ordinances, has direct access to the power of God, he said. While women could publicly pray and prophesy in church (1 Cor. “Whether by exhortation or conversation, we need your voice teaching the doctrine of Christ. When was the first general conference? The brethren, if you haven’t noticed, President Nelson is just right there. I think it’s a fantastic question. When we see today President Nelson clearly making a stronger emphasis than ever on the family, and then we see President Eyring saying to the women of the church, he’s defining nurturing. And I see through the lens of my life a lot, clearly, so you’re going to see kind of where I’m coming from. We are working together, men and women always, and the more men and women work together with the Spirit, the more synergy there is, and the more we’re going to be able to create a sin resistant and a strong covenant people. But most of the time it’s what they’re not doing, and it’s the sacrifice and the love that they should be doing. And my mom had 13 children, and there were other 12 to worry about, and I was searching. And I’m the twelfth of the 13. President Russell M. Nelson speaks during the Saturday evening session of the 191st Annual General Conference on April 3, 2021. Because when I push it all the way to the end, the Lord confirms the truth. Bill: And by the way, I’ve noticed that we should have all noticed by now that we’re de-emphasizing church in favor of temple and family now. Found inside – Page 66To some extent this has created a contradiction in the very idea of an ordination conference, since ordination is only part of a much larger goal. Most Roman Catholic women neither can nor wish to be ordained within priesthood as ... Your temple endowment prepares you to do so.”, Righteous, endowed Latter-day Saint women speak and teach with power and authority from God, he said. Some sessions of general conference were designated for specific groups of members or leaders, such as the welfare session, the women’s session, the priesthood session, and other sessions designed to address topics pertinent to specific organizations of the Church. And it can be a very divisive topic. What does hood mean? The Saturday evening session of the April 2020 general conference was opened to all members age 11 and older as the church commemorated the bicentennial of . And I feel like I used to pray and it was like I would pray to God, and then hope that he would bless whatever I was praying for. I’m kind of weird about it. I don’t know if that makes sense, but that’s kind of where I think I would go with that. But it is difficult for these young women, there’s no question. Barbara: So I’ve noticed in them forcing in a sense them to be creative out of what they would ordinarily do, they become more like Christ and have more, they almost always express a connection that they never had before. Like what is your relationship like with Heavenly Mother and how have you come to that? Barbara: I would like to have you teach me more on that, because that’s an important topic. And he said, “Barb, it’s so interesting that all of a sudden you don’t have this gold Book of Mormon. It’s a process, however, that is not spelled out in any manual. To understand a little bit of background of how I was raised. I’ve asked that question and I don’t have an answer for that. This decision was based on changes in technology that make it possible for all members and friends to view each session of general conference, including the women's session and the priesthood session. But as the church, and we learn line upon line, as the church is becoming more, I should say, I want to say hierarchical, but that’s really not the word I, as the church is becoming organized under a more specific structure, in the scriptures it does specifically talk about how elders should be called upon for healing. Barbara: And so yes, I hope that that came across. The heavens are just as open to women who are endowed with God’s power flowing from their priesthood covenants as they are to men who bear the priesthood. No more priesthood session. All we want is our tools. “Similarly, in the holy temple, you are authorized to perform and officiate in priesthood ordinances every time you attend. Officials from The Church of Jesus Christ of . Both were raised by either inactive parents or anti-Mormon parents, and a mother in one case that committed suicide. Elder Ballard, "The endowment is literally a gift of power. Putting my faith in the prophet's counsel into action, I went a-studyin'. When the relief society was being restored, Joseph Smith was very clear that the purpose of relief society, the real purpose of relief society was to prepare women to be entering the temple and receiving their endowments and entering the new and everlasting covenant, or the patriarchal, or the familial priesthood that he actually calls the patriarchal, so I have to be careful. President Nelson also clarified additional points with respect to women and the priesthood. And you have that authority and power to have that. Very kind. So we’re talking about a husband and wife being unified. But he put his finger in my face and he said, “That is my wife.” And that’s all it took for me to like want to bury myself in a grave. We Can Do Better and Be Better. Priesthood sessions were not considered a part of general conference until April 1944. I was talking. There are some who would have you doubt yourself and minimize your stellar spiritual capacity as a righteous woman.”, Satan and his minions will constantly contrive roadblocks to prevent women from understanding the spiritual gifts with which they have been and can be blessed, said President Nelson. And I don’t know everything about women in the early church performing blessings…. If women could do all that men do and vice versa, the combinative power of partnership, imo, could be lost. From April 2018 to April 2021, the priesthood session was held during the April conference, with a General Women's Session (for females 11 years and older) held during October's conference. But a father is told, especially the family proclamation, that is provide, protect, and preside, right? 1. Why exactly is it not okay anymore? Why wasn't this mentioned at conference and in the news ? Or if nothing else, I may not have any answers at all, but let me walk beside you. So we have, by the way, I don’t know if you’ve noticed this or not, but we have a distinctly male way of talking about priesthood. And we have it like this object, and instead, like there’s synergy built right into the word. Priesthood, women's sessions evolve. And how he’s actually saying, “Do it more.” Figure it out more and it will change your life, and it will change the world. But frankly in this case, they’re not supposed to go over. Your parents were probably raised in a different generation, hopefully. But then I also say the Lord structured his hierarchal structure of the church in that way, and I don’t know why. But there’s, I feel a great deal of, I would suggest anybody read this book because I think you come away with a new understanding of the power of covenant. I feel deep sorrow that any of you have felt sidelined, disrespected, or misjudged. She always was doing. Found inside – Page 121Movement leaders could have focused on other issues, for example, women's participation in liturgical ministry at the ... overwhelming response to the proposed conference titled, ''Women in Future Priesthood Now: A Call to Action. I know it is. It’s as it says in Section 84 of Doctrine and Covenants, if you keep this oath and covenant of the priesthood, you will have all that the father has. So with the priesthood, it’s very similar. Bill: How could we have used this word priesthood for all these years and not understood that it really is about synergy? BYU Women's Conference 253 Harman Continuing Education Building Provo, Utah 84602 801‐422‐7692 Email: womens_conference@byu.edu Website: womensconference.byu.edu 2019 BYU Women's Conference Theme: Ether 12:41 - "And now, I would commend you to seek this Jesus of whom the prophets and In recent years, leaders have given more emphasis to the relationship of women and the priesthood. By loving them and serving them, we will become more like Christ, just like Christ, through his atonement was able to love even more. Close. "Beginning with October's general conference and continuing thereafter, the Saturday evening sessions will be discontinued. These meetings will originate from the Conference Center on Saturday evening following the morning and afternoon sessions of the conference. The following weekend, though, several speakers referred to the Oct. 4 morning gathering as the first conference session. Women weren't allowed in the building for that session but, beginning in 1986, they had their own Saturday evening meeting a week before conference. “We thank the Lord for His direction in this matter. Award-winning authors Bruce and Marie Hafen draw upon a lifetime of experience in Church service, college teaching, and parenthood to help readers embrace both the spiritual and the intellectual aspects of the gospel. I mean one of the keys that we have been told my a number of the prophets is one of the keys that has not been revealed on the Earth today is the key of creation. The Correct Name of the Church. No question. Lindsay: I think that that’s why it’s important in my mind to have more women in the hierarchal structure of the church. And so it’s caused a lot of confusion where some women will be saying, “I know that I have authority, I know that I have power because I go to the temple and I’m hearing this terminology in the temple, and I’m hearing power and authority and endowment and things like that, but yet I go to church and people are telling me that I don’t have priesthood power or authority.” And so it doesn’t make sense, and so people are talking out of two different sides of their mouth or two different sides of the elephant, and they’re confusing a lot of things. So how do you feel about that? Barbara: So April 2018 general conference, President Nelson talked to the men, and he asked to men to live up to their priesthood privileges. We have a really beautiful family history story about a grandmother who was blessed by women who came and put, she was like dying, and she writes that these women came and they blessed her, and she could feel herself being healed. 2:00 p.m. - Afternoon Conference. Why did my husband lose both of his parents when he was 40? Again, I was the twelfth child and she was older. And yes, those covenants empower us. A practical and faithful guide to improving the way men and women work together in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. be confusion about men's and women's roles in the home and in society. October 2018, Sunday afternoon session. And I asked questions of other religion leaders and other friends. And it’s just, I feel something when I read that, like I love that story. Just three days after announcing a historic policy change allowing women, youth, and children to serve as witnesses of sealing and baptismal ordinances performed in and out of temples, President Nelson addressed women about priesthood power, covenants and holy temples. Barbara: You know, the priesthood really is a manifestation of the atonement of Jesus Christ. He has little pencil drawings. So within that, I asked my students, “So what does a key do?” A key turns the door, and a key turns and lock and it allows somebody to open the door. “My dear sisters, your ability to discern truth from error, to be society’s guardians of morality, is crucial in these latter days. Barbara: He is. The general women's meeting was gradually elevated to conference session status, first, by the announcement that, like the priesthood session, there would be two general women's meetings per year, followed months later by the announcement that the general women's meeting would be considered a session of the LDS semi-annual conference, and .
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