Here is a talk given by Elder Ballard durning Education Week at BYU which answers questions about gender, women in the LDS Church, doctrine about women, and what we are supposed to do from there. When I listened to this talk I felt complete, like all was said and done and so what I should be doing is going forth to declare the good new of Christ. Elder Ballard doesn't make excuses, and recognizes that he has no answers for somethings, just that it is what God said.
And I kind of like that. In some matters we just have to talk to God, get a confirmation that He's still there and running things, and that whatever He does is because He loves us. So, with that answer, let's go. Elder Ballard is calling us to action.
"I leave you my witness and my testimony that we are in a day and a time when we must stand in unityWe must stand together—men and women, young men and young women, boys and girls. We must stand for the plan of our Heavenly Father. We must defend Him. He is being pushed aside. We cannot stand idly by as members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and allow that to continue to happen without being courageous enough to let our voices be heard."
M. Russell Ballard, "Let Us Think Straight"
Above all else brethren, let us think straight.” Last words spoken by Elder Ballard's grandfather who died of leukemia in 1939
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