Latter-day Saint women can ‘remove prejudice’ and improve the world, Eubank says

Highlights from Saturday evening’s women’s session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints:

6:30 p.m.: Jesus heals our brokenness, says Primary leader

(Photo courtesy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Cristina B. Franco, second counselor in the general presidency of the children’s Primary, speaks during the women's meeting Oct. 3, 2020.

Cristina B. Franco, second counselor in the general presidency of the children’s Primary, discussed the healing power of Jesus Christ.

She told about getting a new piano that fell off a hand truck during delivery and was damaged. The manager offered to give Franco and her husband, Rudy, a new piano, but Rudy would not hear of it. He wanted the broken one back.

“Sisters and brothers, aren’t we all like this piano, a little broken, cracked and damaged, feeling like we will never be the same again?” Franco asked.

But Jesus Christ can “heal brokenness,” when people have faith, repent and seek him, she said. These believers will be “mended and made whole.”

6:20 p.m.: Change for the better, says Young Women leader

(Photo courtesy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Rebecca M. Craven of the general Young Women presidency speaks at the women's session Saturday, Oct. 3, 2020.

Rebecca M. Craven, second counselor in the general presidency of the Young Women organization for girls starting at age 11, addressed the possibility of individual change.

“Jesus Christ has given us a continuous pattern for change,” Craven said. “He invites us to exercise faith in him which inspires us to repent... As we repent and turn our hearts to him, we gain a greater desire to make and live sacred covenants. We endure to the end by continuing to apply these principles throughout our lives and inviting the Lord to change us.”

Enduring to the end “means changing to the end,” she said. “I now understand that I am not starting over with each failed attempt, but that, with each try, I am continuing my process of change.”

6:15 p.m.: We can build Zion, says Relief Society leader

(Photo courtesy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Sharon Eubank of the Relief Society general presidency speaks at the women's session of the October 2020 General Conference on Saturday, Oct. 3, 2020.

Sharon Eubank, first counselor in the all-female Relief Society’s general presidency, spoke about building a unified Zion society.

“The change we seek in ourselves and in the groups we belong to will come less by activism and more by actively trying every day to understand one another,” said Eubank, who also is president of Latter-day Saint Charities, the church’s humanitarian arm. “Why? Because we are building Zion — a people ‘of one heart and one mind.’”

She urged the women to be “part of a collective force that changes the world for good,” she said. “Our covenantal assignment is to minister, to lift up the hands that hang down, to put struggling people on our backs or in our arms and carry them. It isn’t complicated to know what to do, but it often goes against our selfish interests and we have to try.”

Latter-day Saint women, she said, “have power to remove prejudice and build unity” and "unlimited potential to change society.”

(Photo courtesy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Young adults in Chile watch General Conference through a phone on Saturday, Oct. 3, 2020

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