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Years ago, Elder Marvin J. Ashton of the Quorum of the Twelve said to me in a moment of private mentoring, “Sheri, don’t ever allow yourself to be offended by someone who is learning his job.”
Through the years, I have searched to find any organization anywhere—any business, charity, religion, or government—where as many women have as much responsibility and influence as in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I cannot find even one. Today millions of Latter-day Saint women in 170-plus countries teach, preach, pray, lead, and preside over auxiliary organizations. And it all began in Nauvoo in 1842 because a Prophet of God organized the women
“Nothing is so much calculated to lead people to forsake sin as to take them by the hand and watch over them with tenderness. When persons manifest the least kindness and love to me, O what pow’r it has over my mind, while the opposite course has a tendency to harrow up all the harsh feelings and depress the human mind.”
And in a theme representative of his life, President Thomas S. Monson has counseled us to look beyond ourselves. “Unless we lose ourselves in service to others, there is little purpose to our own lives,” he said. “Those who live only for themselves eventually shrivel up and figuratively lose their lives, while those who lose themselves in service to others grow and flourish—and in effect save their lives.”
Perhaps the clearest indication that an endowment of the pure love of Christ is growing within us is when our view increasingly turns outward rather than being so focused on ourselves.
