Endowed with His Power, You Are Ready to Lead | Barbara Morgan Gardner | 2023

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🗓️ 12 July 2023

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To fulfill our purpose, we must understand our divine potential, keep our covenants to gain covenantal power, and become perfected in Christ. Barbara Morgan Gardner, associate professor of Church history and doctrine, delivered this devotional address on July 11, 2023. Access the devotional here.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the recent speeches podcast presented by BYU speeches
0:05.0	featuring inspiring new devotional and forums given each week on BYU campus.
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0:15.4	podcasts or by visiting speeches dot BYU.edu. After previously rejecting my father's slash podcasts.
0:23.0	After previously rejecting my father's marriage proposal twice, my mother during a
0:28.1	BYU devotional 65 years ago this summer turned to my father and whispered, yes. It was all my dad
0:36.7	could do to not stand up and shout for joy, but with President Joseph Fielding
0:41.0	Smith as the speaker, he quietly stayed seated.
0:45.1	If anyone here has anything important to say to the person sitting next to you, consider this
0:49.2	your invitation.
0:51.2	Needless to say, I'm grateful for BYU Devotionals. A few months ago, a few months after
0:58.0	their engagement my parents eloped to the Salt Lake City Temple. On their
1:02.2	way home my mom went to her apartment, packed up her
1:05.0	things, and announced that she was going to sleep with Owl that night. Concerned and
1:09.4	rightfully so, her roommates called the Bishop only to be told it's about time they've been married for hours.
1:17.5	My parents continued their education here at BYU and within their first year of marriage my mom gave
1:22.2	birth to a daughter.
1:24.6	Some may remember a story of President Spencer W Kimball helping a stranded pregnant woman
1:28.6	in the airport who was pushing along her young toddler.
1:32.2	President Kimball comforted the women whom he had
1:34.0	never met and knew nothing about, gave a little girl a piece of gum and got the
1:38.9	young pregnant exhausted mother and wet and hungry two-year-old daughter on the next flight out of the Chicago-O-Hair Airport.
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