President Nelson’s talk “A Plea to My Sisters,” lists 82 specific attributes that we women innately have, because we are daughters of our Heavenly Father! He needs us to step up to become the women He created us to be.
- Radiates peace
- Faith-filled
- Is stalwart
- Covenant-keeping
- A wife
- A mother
- A grandmother
- A sister
- An aunt
- A teacher
- A leader
- An exemplar
- A devout defender of the faith
- Is distinct from other women
- Is privileged
- Is responsible
- Is righteous
- Is articulate
- Is different in happy ways
- Is a vital associate
- Is virtuous
- Full of light
- Is loving
- Is knowledgeable
- Is courageous
- Has character
- Is faithful
- Has strength
- Is converted
- Has conviction
- Has the ability to lead
- Has wisdom
- Has a voice
- The kingdom of God is not complete without women
- Makes sacred covenants
- Speaks with the power of God
- Has the authority of God with her
- Is organized
- Can organize
- Has executive ability to plan and direct and administer
- Can teach
- Can speak out
- Has the gift of discernment
- Knows to stay away from popular, shallow, and dangerous trends
- Knows how to make things happen by her faith
- A courageous defender of morality and families
- Is devoted to shepherding God’s children along the covenant path toward exaltation
- Knows how to receive personal revelation
- Understands the power and peace of the temple endowment
- Knows how to call upon the powers of heaven to protect and strengthen children and families
- Teaches fearlessly
- Offers inspired prodding
- Influences others through her spirit
- Allows herself to be directed by the Spirit
- Gives voice to revelation
- Has important impressions
- Has important insights
- Is inspired
- Isn’t afraid to speak up or out about her impressions and insight
- Unites with a husband in governing their family
- Has distinctive capabilities
- Has distinctive intuition
- Has a bedrock understanding of the doctrine of Christ
- Uses doctrine to teach
- Helps to raise a sin-resistant generation
- Detects deception in all of its forms
- Accesses the power of God
- Expresses beliefs with confidence and charity
- Has the courage and vision of our Mother Eve
- Is truly converted
- Stands out for good in a deteriorating world
- Steps forward
- Has a rightful and needful place in the home, community, and Kingdom of God
- Fully capable of fulfilling Pres. Kimball’s prophecy
- Has been promised the Holy Ghost will magnify her influence
- Has an apostolic blessing to rise to her full stature, to fulfill the measure of her creation
- Walks arm in arm with all others in this sacred work
- Can help prepare the world for the Second coming of the Lord
- Is a member of the Relief Society, and therefore has been given divine power and authority to do a great many things
- Is not silent or limited, but has an eternal assignment in her marriage partnership
- Is urged to be a contributing and full partner
- Is a keystone in the priesthood arch of creation
Sisters, Pres. Nelson exhorts us, “I plead with my sisters of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to step forward! Take your rightful and needful place in your home, in your community, and in the kingdom of God. … I promise you in the name of Jesus Christ that as you do so, the Holy Ghost will magnify your influence in an unprecedented way!”
President Kimball’s prophecy will be fulfilled in us.