Thinking back to when I was a young woman, I recognize that I did not understand the magnitude of what was happening in my life. I did not realize that my participation in each and every Church activity was helping me develop a lifelong pattern and commitment to follow the teachings of Jesus Christ. I didn’t understand that I was being prepared for my future life as an individual, a wife, a mother, and a leader. I didn’t understand that as I tried to choose the right, I was honoring my baptismal covenants, exercising faith, increasing my virtue, and preparing to go to the temple. I couldn’t see all of this then, but in very small, incremental steps, I was becoming a believer – and “an example of the believers.”
It is very interesting that she spoke of her friend “Sister Anderson . . . the wife of Neil L. Anderson of the Presidency of the Seventy.” There are two reasons for this, first, Sister Anderson lives in our stake so Sister Dibbs might well live in our stake as well. Second, Elder Anderson was called as an Apostle one week later.
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