Conference Talk of the Week

This week's talk is Elder Jeffery R. Holland's talk, "Because of Your Faith." In it, he says these words:

"I am grateful for all the women of the Church who in my life have been as strong as Mount Sinai and as compassionate as the Mount of Beatitudes. We smile sometimes about our sisters’ stories—you know, green Jell-O, quilts, and funeral potatoes. But my family has been the grateful recipient of each of those items at one time or another—and in one case, the quilt and the funeral potatoes on the same day. It was just a small quilt—tiny, really—to make my deceased baby brother’s journey back to his heavenly home as warm and comfortable as our Relief Society sisters wanted him to be. The food provided for our family after the service, voluntarily given without a single word from us, was gratefully received. Smile, if you will, about our traditions, but somehow the too-often unheralded women in this church are always there when hands hang down and knees are feeble."

There are a lot of cliches in Mormon culture, but they take on meaning when they come at a time of need. My family was the recipient of Elders' Quroum ditch digging when floodwaters threatened our house. When have you or your family been blessed by a Mormon cliche?