91. Ryan Saltzgiver and Neelima Surisetty Rayudu | Women Endowed With Power

Latter-day Saint Women Podcast

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

5 • 670 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Never in the history of mankind have temples been more accessible to God’s children. More Latter-day Saints than ever before have the opportunity of receiving temple ordinances and then returning often. This world-wide blessing unifies Saints with their families, their ancestors, and to the Lord Jesus Christ. In this episode, Church historian Ryan Saltzgiver shares stories from the Global Histories project of pioneering women traveling great distances at incredible sacrifice to gather Saints on both sides of the veil. We also talk with Neelima Surisetty Rayudu, a Church member from India, about her experiences traveling to the Hong Kong and Cebu Philippines temples to be sealed to her parents and then her husband. She recalls her initial reaction to the recently-announced Bengaluru India temple. Resources: Global Histories https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/landing/global-histories?lang=eng Previous Global Histories Episodes: Ryan Saltzgiver | Women of Faith: Stories from Global Histories https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/media/collection/latter-day-saint-women-podcasts?lang=eng&track=/media/audio/ryan-saltzgiver-women-of-faith-stories-from-global-histories-e8e3535?lang=eng Melissa Inouye | Can You Name Five Women? https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/media/collection/latter-day-saint-women-podcasts?lang=eng&track=/media/audio/latter-day-saint-women-2021-0070-melissa-inouye-can-you-name-five-women-64k-eng.-9681d31?lang=eng The Nauvoo Temple: A Joseph Smith Papers Podcast https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/articles/the-nauvoo-temple-a-joseph-smith-papers-podcast President Russell M. Nelson; The Temple and Your Spiritual Foundation https://abn.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2021/10/47nelson?lang=eng every promise come together in the temple - everything we do in the church comes back to that New Temples https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/october-2021-general-conference-new-temples The Story of Clara Cooper from Liberia: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/church/news/lessons-of-faith-from-church-history-in-africa?lang=eng) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu6TAi_53Hw Transcript: https://media.ldscdn.org/pdf/2021-03-0091-91-ryan-saltzgiver-and-neelima-surisetty-rayudu-women-endowed-with-power-eng.pdf

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Latter-day Saint Women podcast, where we share the legacy of women of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
0:11.0	You'll get to know the faithful women who shaped our past and hear from inspiring women and men of faith today.
0:17.0	I'm Shailen Back.
0:18.0	And I'm Carly Gehman. We are your co-hosts.
0:20.0	Today we're excited to welcome
0:21.7	Ryan Saltsgiver to the studio as our guest. Ryan, welcome, or rather welcome back.
0:26.5	Thank you for having me back. Yeah. We can't stop asking you to come back. These episodes are so good.
0:31.3	Yes. Oh, thank you. Yes. So long-time listeners of the podcast will remember an episode that we did last year with Ryan. He shared
0:38.3	stories of women from the Church History Department's Global History's Project. And this was one of
0:43.5	our favorite episodes. And we'll be sure to link to it in the show notes. We also interviewed
0:47.5	Ryan's colleague, Melissa Waching Inouye, on this as well. So we'll link to both of those.
0:53.0	And we're excited to have Ryan back on the show to
0:55.1	share more stories and insights of women around the world. And today we're particularly
0:58.8	focusing on the stories of women and temples. So excited about that. To briefly introduce Ryan to
1:05.6	new listeners, Ryan Saltsgiver is a historian and writer with the church history department. And he
1:10.4	writes on the archaeology of Latter-day Saint communities and the writer with the church history department, and he writes on the
1:11.0	archaeology of Latter-day Saint communities and the globalization of the church. So we'll just
1:15.1	jump right in. We're really excited about our conversation today with Ryan.
1:18.6	Sounds good. Ryan, you've studied the global church for the better part of a decade and have led
1:23.1	the Global History's Project, gathering and sharing records of the remarkable faith and devotion of members of the church around the world.
1:30.0	Can you tell us what you've learned about the sacrifices members of the church worldwide have made specifically to travel and attend the temple?
1:38.4	Why are these sacrifices so significant and how have they inspired you?
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