Very simply, our physical and spiritual safety lies in never even getting close to the line that separates light from dark, good from evil.
— Sheri L. Dew
Relief Society can help us turn away from the world, for its express purpose is to help sisters and their families come unto Christ.
My whole life, I've felt like I didn't quite measure up.
There isn't anyone who wants to see me married more than I do.
It is by letting the world go and coming unto Christ that we increasingly live as women of God.
As sisters in Zion, we can be obstacles to the adversary's conspiracy against families and virtue.
I had a lot of friends who were boys. I played ball with them, but we didn't date. They didn't ask me that much because I wasn't cute enough or because I didn't drink or party.
If we don't do as well as we know how and we are prepared to do, it'll be largely because we act and make choices as though we're going to stay here, as though this life is all there is, when that is not the case.
As a young girl, I saw commitment in my grandmother, who helped Grandpa homestead our farm on the Kansas prairie. Somehow they outlasted the Dust Bowl, the Depression, and the tornadoes that terrorize the Great Plains.
I was a friend during school time, but not much after that. By the time I got to BYU, I was a social mess, an absolute misfit. There is not a shyer, more pathetic kid who stepped on that BYU campus than me.
No 11-year-old girl wants to be 5-10. I always felt big and unattractive.
The decisions you are making right now and that you will make in the foreseeable months and years will absolutely determine whether you pivot towards the world or towards the Lord.
