Never underestimate the power of God . . .

Remarkable Women

After months of planning and planning and worrying and planning our Hunter Central Stake Women's conference went off without a hitch.  Yesterday was they day and around 250 Remarkable Women came together to enjoy each others' company, to be taught, inspired, empowered, and motivated to do what we need to do to be the kind of women, mothers, daughters, wives, grandmothers, sisters, aunts, etc. that Heavenly Father wants us to be.

Our theme, Remarkable Women came about in an interesting way mostly with the help of my dad.  (Another story to post someday.)

• A Deseret News article March 16, 2012 “Training the mind to be positive helps your life” was brought to my attention. 
• Church News article, May 21, 2012 “we cannot escape the influence our lives have upon the lives of others. Ours is the opportunity to build, to lift, to inspire, and indeed to lead.”
• Church News article – September 2, 2012 “Remarkable Women” of the scriptures can teach us how to deal with today’s challenges. Next to it was an article about angels and how they are co-workers with mortals in the work of the Lord. Bro. Donald W. Parry a BYU professor “angels can minister among us without us knowing it”.
• Finally, for my birthday in October, Karl gave me a gift not knowing at all the thought and prayer we had been giving to Women’s Conference. It was a small book calleed The Remarkable Soul of a Woman – that was it! Remarkable Women would be the theme for our Women’s Conference.

What makes a remarkable woman? As a presidency we discussed the characteristics – HOPE, Strong Character, Love, Faithful Devotion, Wise, Smart, Prepared, Courage and more – these characteristics became the topics for our workshops.

Then we turned to Daughters of My Kingdom, preface for Chapter 10 – and put it on the cover of the program – ". . . live up to your privilege and the angels can not be retrained from you."  - Joseph Smith

Now this probably doesn’t make any sense to you, but it does to me (and my Stake RS Presidency). We planned a conference for Remarkable Women of our Stake to be taught by remarkable women of quiet strength and deep-seeded testimonies.  It was amazing!

Our concluding speaker/performer was Julie de Azevedo Hanks (another story to tell).  She is an amazingly talented LDS woman, actually remarkable!  She spoke and sang and spoke and sang. She had only a few notes and performed without a sheet of music or any fancy dancy sound system.  She shared the stories that inspired the songs she performed. 

The only way this whole thing came off like it did is because of the power and love of our Heavenly Father - I know that for a fact!