More than 20,000 women gather for LDS Church's General Relief Society Meeting
SALT LAKE CITY ? Bands of valiant women representing The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints across the Earth have turned their faith into action in hundreds of places, said President Henry B. Eyring on Saturday evening.
"What you have done remarkably well together is to cherish, watch over and comfort each other," said the first counselor in the LDS Church's First Presidency.
Speaking to a more than 20,000 women gathered in the Conference Center in downtown Salt Lake City for the church's General Relief Society Meeting, President Eyring emphasized the need for women to care for each other, teach each other and be taught and "sit down together with God."
"My purpose tonight is to help you feel the commendation and appreciation of God for what you have already done to help each other reach that lofty goal," he said. "And, second, it is to describe some of what is yet to come in your unified service."
In addition to President Eyring, Sister Linda K. Burton, Relief Society general president, and her counselors, Sister Carole M. Stephens and Sister Linda S. Reeves, spoke. President Thomas S. Monson and President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, second counselor in the First Presidency, also attended the meeting, which was broadcast to LDS meetinghouses across the globe.
During his remarks, President Eyring told the worldwide congregation that each Latter-day Saint woman is "in a unique place in your journey to eternal life."
"Some have years of experience and others are early in their mortal discipleship. Each is unique in her personal history and her challenges. But all of you are sisters and beloved daughters of our Heavenly Father, who knows and watches over each of you."
President Eyring spoke of a miracle that, one month ago, touched his family.
His daughter, Elizabeth, was six months pregnant and home alone with her 3-year-old daughter when she experienced a medical emergency associated with her pregnancy. Her husband was away at work and told her to call 911. But before she could place the call a knock came at the door. It was her visiting teaching companion.
"They had no appointment for that morning," he said. "Her companion had simply felt she ought to come by to see Elizabeth."
The woman drove Elizabeth to the hospital, where doctors performed surgery just in time to save Elizabeth and the baby ? which weighed 1 pound, 11 ounces.
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