Sisters In Zion

Here are some highlights to our 2nd Sunday lesson and a link to the full talk. Check your email for the link to the recording!

Sisters In Zion

By President Henry B. Eyring Second Counselor in the First Presidency

You sisters, will be at the heart of creating that society of people who will join in glorious association with the Savior. You will be an essential force in the gathering of Israel and in the creation of a Zion people who will dwell in peace...

Elder McConkie taught: “[Enoch’s] was a day of wickedness and evil, a day of darkness and rebellion, a day of war and desolation, a day leading up to the cleansing of the earth by water.

“Enoch, however, was faithful. He ‘saw the Lord,’ and talked with him ‘face to face’ (Moses 7:4.) Enoch made covenants and assembled a congregation of true believers, all of whom became so faithful that ‘the Lord came and dwelt with his people, and they dwelt in righteousness,’ ‘And the Lord called his people Zion, because they were of one heart and one mind’ (Moses 7:18.) …

If the past is prologue, at the time of the Savior’s coming, the daughters who are deeply committed to their covenants with God will be more than half of those who are prepared to welcome Him when He comes. 

But whatever the numbers, your contribution in creating unity among the people prepared for that Zion will be far greater than half.

My experience has taught me that Heavenly Father’s daughters have a gift to allay contention and to promote righteousness with their love of God and with the love of God they engender in those they serve… The Lord has, through His prophets, made a promise to you.“If you live up to your privileges, the angels cannot be restrained from being your associates.”3

That marvelous potential lies within you, and you are being prepared for it.

You brought with you into mortal life a spiritual capacity to nurture others and to lift them higher toward the love and purity that will qualify them to live together in a Zion society. It is not by accident that the Relief Society... has as its motto “Charity Never Faileth.”

Charity is the pure love of Christ. And it is faith in Him and the full effects of His infinite Atonement that will qualify you, and those you love and serve, for the supernal gift to live in that sociality of a long-looked-for and promised Zion.

You are daughters of a loving Heavenly Father, who sent you into the world with unique gifts

 that you promised to use to bless others. 

I promise you that the Lord will lead you by the hand, through the Holy Ghost. He will go before your face as you help Him prepare His people to become His promised Zion.