Emily Utt - Prayer: A Small and Simple Thing

Latter-day Saint Women Podcast

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

5 • 670 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Virginia H. Pearce gave her powerful talk “Prayer: A Small and Simple Thing” at BYU Women’s Conference in April 2018. Join hosts Shalyn Back and Katie Perez as they discuss how this discourse remains relevant today along with special guest Emily Utt of the Church History Department. Full Discourse https://www.churchhistorianspress.org/at-the-pulpit/part-4/chapter-50 From childhood, Virginia Hinckley Pearce (b. 1945) found that her parents wove prayer and church service into the fabric of their everyday lives. She remembers that when she or one of her siblings was particularly worried over a situation, her father, Gordon B. Hinckley, would say, “Just say your prayers and go to bed. Get up in the morning; it’ll be clearer.” Pearce has applied that good advice; her own restatement of it is, “Just say your prayers, go to bed, and when you get up in the morning, go back to work.” Gathering for family prayer, going to church, and working on church assignments felt like a natural part of her family life, not something on a list she had to complete. She saw that church work for her mother, Marjorie Pay Hinckley, was “part of who she was,” and that she always seemed energized by doing that work, not pressured or annoyed.

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0:00.0	Have you ever sat through a Relief Society lesson?
0:03.0	Heard an inspirational story about a woman who was born decades or even centuries before you,
0:08.0	then wondered how in the world could her life possibly be relevant to yours?
0:13.0	Well, that's what this podcast is all about.
0:16.0	You'll hear parts of some prominent talks given by women throughout the history of the church.
0:20.0	Hopefully, along the way, you'll be able to see how their experiences can apply to you.
0:25.7	Welcome to the Latterday St. Women podcast.
0:28.1	I'm your host, Shailen Back, and today I have two special guests.
0:31.3	We're here with Emily Ut, who's a historic sites curator with the church.
0:35.1	Hi, Emily.
0:35.7	Hi.
0:36.5	And we have Katie Perez. And Katie is a stay-at-home
0:39.5	mom of two, and she's read the toxin at the pulpit. And so she's ready today to discuss this talk
0:46.1	and ask any questions that she has and share her experience. So thank you for being here, Katie.
0:50.4	Thanks for having me. So today we wanted to discuss a talk by Virginia Hinkley Pierce,
0:55.4	and this talk is called Prayer, a small and simple thing, and it was given at a BYU
1:00.6	Women's Conference in 2011. So let's talk a little bit about Virginia. So what I find so
1:08.8	interesting about Virginia, her, you know, we all know who her father is, President Gordon B. Hinkley, she was raised in such this gospel-centered home that everything about this family's life was gospel-centered.
1:22.9	You know, she was raised in a home that prayed together and that studied the scriptures and that served and worked
1:28.4	in the church. And so gospel living, I think, came naturally for this family. I was reminded that she
1:34.5	was 16 when her father was called as an apostle. Can you imagine being a teenager and suddenly
1:39.5	having to be like the best kid on the block because you know you're the apostles kid. That would not be
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