Last night Terry and I watched, through the miracles of today's Internet, Sister Kimball read that talk. A historic talk in my estimation. I loved seeing her with her paper nametag and wearing a corsage as big as a dinner plate. I loved seeing her shuffle the pages sideways as she read her husband's talk. I enjoyed remembering when her granddaughter, her namesake, served as a missionary in Homer. I remembered the sweet friendship that she and our daughter developed.
In those days, the wives were afforded total privacy. In the tabernacle, there was a place over to the right and they were secluded there during General Conference. You never really saw them. Nowadays they sit right there and when it's over, the First Presidency and Quorum members walk over and take them by the hand and they walk and wave and exit together. And now they travel and fulfill speaking assignments. All over the world!
Sister Kimball's granddaughter had told us of how her Grandmother did not enjoy attention or the spotlight in any way and there she was reading that talk! As I watched and listened again...I remembered that thrill of being told to be a SisterScriptorian and also the amazement of hearing something that had never really been said before- about the power of women and how it would be in the last days with their influence. I remember being surprised at the mention of the non-member women and how they would respond to the member women. I remembered all of that as it's been in my mind and heart for all 39 years but...I did not remember this....
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. These real heroines have true humility, which places a higher value on integrity than on visibility. Remember, it is as wrong to do things just to be seen of women as it is to do things to be seen of men. Great women and men are always more anxious to serve than to have dominion.
Thus it will be that 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.
These women are spiritually strong and each is so beautiful in her own modest way! What an exciting time to be in the Church. An indication of the reality of this being the unfolding of many prophecies of the last days, is transparent every time one of these women speaks to a vast audience!!I am a happy woman just thinking of this happening!!!
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