Bonnie Oscarson - Directing Our Lives on the Gospel Path

Latter-day Saint Women Podcast

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

5 • 670 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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"Drifting, Dreaming, Directing", Ardeth G. Kapp, At the Pulpit: 185 Years of Discourses by Latter-day Saint Women Bonnie Oscarson served as the 14th president of the Young Women organization, leading young women worldwide through a period of great change and growth from 2013-2018. She joins us today to share her experiences from a life of service in the Church, and to discuss the life and teachings of another great leader of Young Women from our history, Ardeth G. Kapp. The discussion today focuses on themes from Kapp's especially relevant 1980 BYU Women's Conference address, "Drifting, Dreaming, Directing," where she encourages women to direct their lives along the gospel path and seek conversion from personal revelation. "When changes come, and they always will, for some it may be a test to survive because their foundation is based on practices alone, without an understanding of the eternal, unchanging principles." - Ardeth G. Kapp "Our greatest dreams will be fulfilled only as we come to understand fully and experience the blessings of the priesthood, the power of the priesthood, and the ordinances of the priesthood in our own lives." - Ardeth G. Kapp "All individuals are what they are and where they are by a composite of choices that direct their life each day. The responsibility of directing is not only for our own lives, but also for others who may be looking for the light." - Ardeth G. Kapp

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0:00.0	Have you ever found yourself drifting or dreaming along, following some or even all the practices of the gospel of Jesus Christ, but without coming to really know and apply the principles for yourself?
0:18.0	Today we will discuss the power available to women and men when we make the conscious
0:23.2	choice to direct our lives along the gospel path, obeying in faith and receiving our own
0:28.0	revelation to know the true doctrine for ourselves and to be a light for others.
0:33.1	Hello and welcome to the Latter-day Saint Women Podcast, where we share the inspiring stories and teachings
0:38.7	of women of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I'm Carly Geiman, and I'm here with
0:44.0	Shailen Back. We're your co-hosts. Thanks so much for joining us. Our discussion today is based on
0:49.1	the life and teachings of Sister Ardith Cap. She was the general president of the Young Women's
0:53.8	Organization from
0:54.7	1984 to 1992. And we are so glad today to welcome as our guest, another former young women
1:02.2	general president, Sister Bonnie Oskerson. Welcome, Sister Oskerson. Thank you so much. I'm happy to be
1:07.3	here. For those joining us for the first time, in this season of the Latter-day St. Women
1:11.0	podcast, we're learning from women featured in the book at the pulpit.
1:14.6	And it's a compilation of short biographies and discourses given by Latter-day St.
1:19.4	women throughout our history.
1:20.5	And you can follow along.
1:21.9	It's available in the gospel library app under church history. And we recognize that many of you maybe haven't heard
1:28.5	about the pulpit or haven't read it or read the discourse that we're discussing today, but don't
1:32.6	worry. We think that you'll really enjoy the conversation and learn about Art of Cap and our guest,
1:37.8	Bonnie Oscarsen. So we want to first introduce Bonnie Oscarsen, and she was so sweet before and she said,
1:44.0	please call me Bonnie.
1:45.7	So with your permission, we will call you Bonnie. And then we'll get into our discussion of
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