A Mormon Woman's Reflections on Life and the Gospel of Jesus Christ

Elder Foster, Mormon leader, spoke of the power of mother’s love, and the call for us to be willing to find and gather the lost who stray. In his words, “Some of our loved ones may stray, but we must never give up; we must always go back for them.”

Wow, amazing how many talks overlapping and inspiringly discuss the role of mothers/children, parents teaching in the home.. Time to glean every morsel. A few statements from this session of the Mormons’ Annual April General Conference Meeting follow:

We never know when a heart may be turned or when a soul might be tired of the world. When that happens, they usually turn first to the mother… “None like a mother can charm away pain,” he said in one line of a poem about a mother’s love.

In the final most pivotal moment in the Savior’s life, Jesus looked down from the cross to his mother, Mary, and said: “Behold my mother.” Then, after the disciple agreed to care for her, He acknowledged that His sacrifice was “finished.”

Elder Foster closes as he bears His sacred witness that Jesus Christ is the very Savior and Redeemer of the World and that he is ever grateful that “his mother told [him].”

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