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Paisley: Hey everybody, welcome
back Paisley imperfect, and

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today we are going to talk about
the priesthood and our role

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within it. Just a little bit
specifically, we're going to

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talk about President Nelson's
talk titled spiritual treasures

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from the 2019 women's session of
General Conference, and I'm not

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going to pretend to know
everything about our role within

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the priesthood, but I do feel
like we've been learning a lot

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more, really, in the last 678,
years, and this talk gives us a

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really good place to start if we
want to learn more. The biggest

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thing, in my opinion, is that we
are learning how to use the

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priesthood without having to
bear the priesthood. President

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Nelson starts his talk off by
telling about a trip that him

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and his wife Wendy took to
harmony, Pennsylvania. That's

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where the priesthood was
restored and where Joseph

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received a specific revelation
for Emma. Uh, we'll get to that

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in just a second. First, I want
to share these words. They're

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from. These words are from a
genuine prophet of God. So

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please hear them. He says, How I
yearn for you speaking to the

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sisters again, remember how I
yearn for you to understand that

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the restoration of the
priesthood is just as relevant

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to you as a woman as it is to
any man. Then he says, Why?

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Because the Melchizedek
priesthood has been restored

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both covenant keeping women and
men have access to all the

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spiritual blessings of the
church if you do a lot of

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reading of conference talks,
which I do these days, President

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Nelson specifically does a
really good job of emphasizing

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words within his talks. He uses
italics to emphasize words

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within his talks. Not very many
others do that, and not very

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often, but President Nelson does
it pretty frequently, and in

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this case, it's all the
spiritual blessings of the

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church covenant keeping women
and men have access to all the

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spiritual blessings of the
church. We all have access to

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all of these blessings. Yes,
there are some things that they

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can do that we cannot. Yes,
there are also some things that

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we can do that they cannot.
Please, please, please, please,

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remember that equal does not
mean the same president Nelson

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also says this, The heavens are
just as open to women who are

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endowed with God's power flowing
from their priesthood covenants,

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as they are to men who bear the
priesthood. It's the covenant.

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The covenant is what gives us
the power he says, I pray that

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truth will register upon each of
your hearts, because I believe

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it will change your life.
Sisters, you have the right to

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draw liberally upon the Savior's
power to help your families and

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others you love. We have the
right, that is a very

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deliberately chosen word. We as
women have the right to draw

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liberally upon the Savior's
power to help our families and

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those we love others we love
same thing, not the privilege,

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though it very much is one,
excuse me, but the right, the

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covenants that we make give us
the right. And then He even

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tells us how to do it, sort of
he did. Start off this part by

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saying, you won't find this
process, the process of drawing

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liberally upon the power of the
Savior. You won't find this

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process spelled out in a manual.
The Holy Ghost will be your

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personal tutor as you seek to
understand what the Lord would

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have you know and do. This
process is neither quick nor

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easy, but it is spiritually
invigorating. He says

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spiritually invigorating. And I
think spiritually exhausting.

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And I only think that because,
like, when I when I give a talk,

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or when I get really passionate
about something and really,

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really excited about a topic, I
excuse me afterwards, it's

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almost like a it's almost like a
crash. And I just, I get so

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spiritually exhausted. So he
says, spiritually invigorating,

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and I'm like, spiritually
exhausting. But. And in other

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words, we need to be worthy of
the constant companionship of

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the Holy Ghost. And because if
the Holy Ghost is going to be

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our personal tutor as we seek to
understand what the Lord would

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have us know and do, then we
need to be worthy of the

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constant companionship of the
Holy Ghost and be paying

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attention for when he's trying
to tell us what to do, tell us

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what to do. I don't really like
that phrase when he's trying to

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help us know the things that we
can do to help us use the power

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that we've been given. I like
that better. He also tells us,

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President Nelson also tells us
that this personal spiritual

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endeavor will bring us joy as we
gain understand and use this

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power. But as with everything
else, there is a warning

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associated with setting out on
this journey to learn from the

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Holy Ghost how to use the
Savior's power in our own life.

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Here it is. It's kind of a long
warning. Part of this endeavor

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will require you to put aside
many things of this world.

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Sometimes we speak almost
casually about walking away from

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the world with its contention
pervasive temptations and false

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false philosophies, but truly
doing so requires you to examine

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your life meticulously and
regularly. That takes me back to

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that chapter in Alma. I'm just
having this thought right now,

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but that takes me back to that
chapter in Alma that we've

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talked about before that has a
really good personal interview.

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Anyway, President Nelson
continues. He says you will need

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to say no to some things, even
though they may seem harmless

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and there's more. He says, there
are those who would undermine

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your ability to call upon the
power of God. There are some who

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would have you doubt yourself
and minimize your stellar

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spiritual capacity as a
righteous woman, most certainly

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the adversary does not want you
to understand the covenant you

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made at baptism, or the profound
endowment of knowledge and power

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you have received or will
receive in the temple. The

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adversary does not want you to
understand the covenants that

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you made. He continues, and
Satan certainly does not want

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you to understand that every
time you worthily serve and

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worship in the temple, you leave
armed with God's power and with

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His angels having charge over
you. He, for sure, does not want

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us to know that. Satan does not
want us to know or understand

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any of those things, and he
works really hard to make sure

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that we don't. And frankly, I've
heard more women say negative

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things about our ability to call
upon the Savior's power than I

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have men. It's really
unfortunate. President Nelson

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continues in his warning, he
says, Satan and his minions will

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constantly contrive roadblocks
to prevent you from

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understanding the spiritual
gifts with which you have been

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and can be blessed.
Unfortunately, some roadblocks

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may be the result of another's
misbehavior. In this section, he

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specifically calls out husbands,
fathers and supposed friends. I

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hope it's okay that I add to his
to this list, the malicious and

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hateful social media influencers
who used to have the truth but

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have turned away from it. These
people create very difficult,

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often impossible roadblocks for
all of us to overcome because

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they are so loud and so
irreverent, they're flashy, and

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they claim to speak with some
authority. But in the midst of

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what I've already quoted,
because President Nelson likes

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to tell us something and then
give us hope, and he tells us

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something like a warning, like,
oh, beware of this, but also

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this. He President Nelson is
really good about that. So in

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the midst of all of the warnings
that I just gave you, he also

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says this, as you embark upon
and continue this lifelong

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process of consecrating your
life to the Lord, the changes in

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your perspective, feelings and
spiritual strength will amaze

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you. Number one, you're going to
notice yourself changing. Number

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two, your perspective, your
feelings and your spiritual

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strength will change for the
better. He also says that as we

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put aside many things of the
world that quote the Holy Ghost,

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will prompt you about what is no
longer needful, what is no

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longer worthy of your time and
energy.

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Please hear that and feel that
and believe that what is no

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longer worthy of your time and
energy. You are more worthy than

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all of those things put
together, those things that the

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Holy Ghost tells you to set
aside or walk away from. Time,

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those things are not worthy of
you. You are a child of God, and

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he has something way better in
store for you. President Nelson

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says, from the dawning of time,
women have been blessed with a

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unique moral compass, the
ability to distinguish right

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from wrong. This gift is
enhanced in those who make and

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keep covenants, and it
diminishes in those who

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willfully ignore the
commandments of God. Before I

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elaborate a little bit on that,
please know that he specifically

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states that he does not absolve
men from God's requirement for

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them to also know the difference
between right and wrong, but we

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aren't focused on other people
and how other people are living

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the gospel. We are focused on
ourselves and how we are living

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the gospel of Jesus Christ, what
they do, what men and women and

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what other people do, that is
between them and God. It is our

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job to work on ourselves. That's
hard. That's hard for me to do

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too our unique moral compass is
enhanced. So let's go back to

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that. Our unique moral compass
is enhanced as we make and keep

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covenants. We start making
covenant covenants when we get

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baptized, and we can continue
making covenants throughout our

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life and then keep them. It
sounds like the get so if you

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think about that, the ability,
the unique moral compass, the

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ability to tell the difference
between right and wrong, truth

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and error, good and evil, sounds
a lot like the gift of

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discernment. And if you remember
back to the first couple of

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we've talked a lot about
President Nelson's talk, a plea

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to my sisters, the power, or the
spiritual gift of discernment,

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was specifically mentioned in
that talk, the gift of

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discernment, the ability to
discern between truth and error,

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right and wrong, good and bad,
is something that we can have as

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we make and keep sacred
covenants. Okay, so now check

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this part out. President Nelson
says your ability to discern

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truth from error, to be
society's guardians of morality

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is crucial in these latter days,
and we depend upon you to teach

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others to do likewise. Let me be
very clear about this. He says,

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if the world loses the moral
rectitude of its women, the

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world will never recover. So
we've heard from President

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Kimball in his talk in 1979 that
talk called the role of the role

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of righteous women. And we've
heard from President Nelson and

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a plea to my sisters how women
will be so critical in the

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growth of the church in the
latter days, in the gathering of

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Israel, the world will not
recover if we do not teach

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morality, if we don't serve
others, if we don't stand up for

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what is good and right and true,
the world will never recover.

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Now, of course, so he gives us
the warnings, right? He gives us

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the warnings, he gives us the
hope, and then he gives us the

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promise. He says, My dear
sisters, your power will

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increase as you serve others,
your prayers, fasting, time in

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the scriptures, service in the
temple and family history work

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will open the heavens to you. He
continues a little bit later, as

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your understanding increases and
as you exercise faith in the

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Lord and His priesthood, power,
your ability to draw upon the

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spiritual treasure that the Lord
has made available, will

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increase, increase power,
increase our increased ability

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to use to draw upon the Savior's
power to help our families and

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others that we love will
increase as we study our

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scriptures, say our prayers, go
to church like do all of the

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quote, unquote, simple things,
right, all of the Primary

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answers. And we just keep
learning more and more. And more

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during every conference on the
power of the priesthood and what

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our role is within within the
priesthood itself, within the

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within the church. But we don't
have to wait till April to learn

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more. President Nelson gave us
three different sections in this

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talk that we can go study to get
started. The first section was

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section 25 that is the
revelation that was given to

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Emma in harmony, Pennsylvania
towards the beginning of his

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talk. And then further down more
towards the end, he gives us two

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more sections, Section 84 and
section 107 I'll make sure that

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all three. Are linked in the
description so that you can just

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click there if you want to go
check them out. Also, I thought

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about doing an episode on each
one of those three sections, but

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every time I think about it,
that quote from President Nelson

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that I shared earlier comes back
into my brain where he said, The

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Holy Ghost will be your personal
tutor as you seek to understand

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what the Lord would have you
know and do, I think you're

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going to have to study those
three sections for yourself and

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listen to the Holy Ghost and and
see how you can use your

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spiritual gifts and abilities to
draw upon the Savior's power to

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help your family and others that
you love. Also remember that

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studying at one time, you're
going to catch one thing,

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studying it two times, you're
going to catch two things.

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Studying three times, you're
going to catch more things, and

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you're going to just like
reading our patriarchal

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blessing, right? It means
something different every time,

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the more we study these sections
in the Doctrine and Covenants,

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the more the Holy Ghost will be
able to teach us truth, teach us

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how we can use the power that we
have been endowed with. He uses

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that phrase quite a bit in here,
the power that we have been

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endowed with, and we can use
that power individually to bless

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our families and others we love.
Now just my own word of caution.

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Caution is strong my own. Just
remember this as you get ready

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to start on your own journey to
find out what gifts you already

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have and which ones you may
want, or the ones that you want

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to work on, the ones that the
Holy Ghost is waiting to teach

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you. Please make sure that you
are ready to act. There is a

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certain level of expectation
that as we start asking

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questions and we start getting
answers, that we will act upon

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those answers. If we do not act
upon those answers, what is the

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point in giving them to us? So
please make sure that as you

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start on your own journey to
find out what your role within

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the priesthood is and how you
can use the spiritual gifts that

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this that our Heavenly Father
has given to you, how you can

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use those to draw upon the
Savior's power and help your

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family and others. Please make
sure that you are ready to act

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upon those promptings and those
feelings that you have. I don't

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remember who it was that said it
now, but was it? Sister

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Hinckley, Sister Kimball? It was
one of the sisters, one of the

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prophets wives. She said, Never
let or never dismiss a generous

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thought or something like that.
Like these thoughts, as silly as

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they may seem, are the spirits
the Holy Ghost way of teaching

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us and helping us learn, line
upon line, precept upon precept,

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when you sit down and you study
these three sections in the

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Doctrine and Covenants, assuming
that you do and the Holy Ghost

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tells you to do something that
you think may be silly, make a

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phone call, do your ministering,
something like that that you

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think is like, Okay, well, or
why would I call her? I never

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talk to her. Don't dismiss it.
That's how the Holy Ghost

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teaches us. That's how the Holy
Ghost will help us to gain the

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gifts that we're asking for.
That's how he will show us to

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use the Savior's power, by
giving us a little bit at a time

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and a little bit more at a time
and a little bit more at a time,

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until he is asking us to do big
things. Okay, effort. The Lord

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loves effort, and he will
magnify it. Just try, just a

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little bit. And you got this.
Remember brother Wilcox, you got

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this, because Jesus Christ has
got you. You got this. We can do

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this. Thank you so much
everybody for being here. I

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really appreciate your time.
Keep learning, keep growing,

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keep trying and be of good cheer
until next time bye.