Sister Sharon Eubank
First Counselor, Relief Society General Presidency
To the Young Women-We need you! We need your passion and energy!
To the sisters in this area-you are strength of the church-
missions, tithing, keep commandments, raise families, serve in callings
Question-How do you find peace?
Her trip to Syria in 2011, church told her to leave area, little did she know it was the start of the 10 year Syrian War (showed pictures of devastation)
10 years of exhaustion
People today experience divorce, abuse, illness, poverty and grief
John 16: 21 & 22
21. A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembered no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
22. And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.
Jesus Christ overcame the world, gives peace
Jill Derr, church historian who has written much about Eliza R. Snow, gave Sister Eubank story of Martha Cragun Cox
About this time (1888), she had a dream which she considered to be divine intervention to free her from her “bitter hatred” of the federal marshals and her own depression. Rather like Dickens’s figure of Marley’s ghost, she saw herself with a chain around her neck so laden with heavy bundles that she could not lift her head to see the sky. Advised by an unnamed person to hang the bundles on the rod over her fireplace, she did so. Among them was a “large bundle” of “wicked words I had said about the Utah Marshalls,” another was debts she had not been able to collect, and another was baby clothes that she used to spread on her bed “on lonely stormy nights when there [was] no one . . . . to see or hear me weep over them.” Each parcel became miraculously light as she lifted it to the rod, and when the last was gone, “lo, the chain was gone and I was free.” She woke, resolved to be free indeed. When an Indian mother begged clothes for her child, Martha took out her box of baby clothes and dressed the child, feeling “shame for the tears I had shed over [them]”.
What is the Rod? Jesus Christ, from the rod of Jesse’s stem
How can we hang our burdens?
By serving others.
Let it go, atonement helps us get rid of our pain.
How do we hang our burden on the rod? Bear testimony. Find the source of our peace, then reach out and show others
Sister Eubank, lyrics to song, Where Can I Turn for Peace
He answers privately,
Reaches my reaching
In my Gethsemane, Savior and Friend.
Gentle the peace he finds for my beseeching.
Constant he is and kind,
Love without end.
Leave a blessing borne of eternal testimony, puts His arm around us,
Alma 7: 27 May the peace of god rest upon you and upon your houses and lands and upon your flocks and herds, and all that you possess, your women and your children, according to your faith and good works, from this time forth and forever. And thus I have spoken. Amen.
May the peace of God rest upon you according to your faith.
The family gathered and it was fun catching up with everyone...
