Eva Witesman: What May Be Keeping You From Accessing Your Spiritual Gifts

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Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 22 January 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In a 2017 BYU Devotional address, Eva Witesman testified, “Latter-day Saint women are courageous, particularly when they have been emboldened by the knowledge that Heavenly Father has a plan for each of us and that He will qualify us to do the work that lies before us. … We will seek every good gift in the service of our God. All we ask is that others not stand in our way as we pursue the Lord’s errand.” On today’s episode, we talk with Eva about the importance of understanding our individual spiritual gifts as we seek to contribute to the world at large.

"It's a complicated time and we can't always see the pathway by ourselves. We need these spiritual gifts to be able to see them. And these spiritual gifts are real. They're as real as any other thing that we've proven with science. ...And I think the more of us that talk about it, and the more of us that expect that and aspire to that, the more we will see that diversity of beautiful gifts and the more we will be able to develop those beautiful gifts, and share the development of those gifts with each other."

Show Notes:

3:00- "Women and Education"
5:45- Why Seek to Understand Our Spiritual Gifts?
16:30- Eva’s Story
23:30- Different Paths for Different People
35:25- Balance Vs. Harmonious
40:05- Timing is Everything
43:55- Men and Women
50:25- Imagining and Exploring Your Possibilities
56:30- What Does It Mean To Be “All In”?

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0:00.0	In June 2017, Ava Weitzman delivered a BYU devotional address titled,
0:07.0	Women and Education, a future only God could see for you.
0:12.0	I spoke with someone at BYU following the address and they said that devotional
0:17.0	addresses at that time typically received an average of 1,000 to 2,000 views
0:23.0	in their first two weeks following publication.
0:26.0	But this one was viewed nearly 14,500 times in its first two weeks.
0:32.0	Today, we talk with Ava about that talk, what inspired and led to it, and what she has learned since.
0:40.0	After receiving her bachelor's degree from the University of Utah in 2002,
0:46.0	Ava Weitzman wanted to continue on to graduate school but was torn between her desires to further her education
0:53.0	and to focus on motherhood. Following a prompting, she continued her education and received her MPA
1:00.0	from Indiana University in 2004. She later received her PhD from Indiana University in public management and policy analysis.
1:10.0	Weitzman, an expert in evidence-based innovation and strategy, became a full-time professor of public management
1:18.0	at the BYU Marriott School of Business in 2009.
1:23.0	Ava and her husband Owen have four children who she says are individually and collectively the central joy of her life.
1:35.0	This is All-In, an LDS living podcast where we ask the question,
1:40.0	what does it really mean to be All-In the Gospel of Jesus Christ?
1:45.0	I'm Morgan Jones and I'm grateful to have Ava Weitzman here with me today. Ava, welcome.
1:51.0	Thank you. Well, I have to tell you, I have actually kind of bragged to some friends of mine
1:58.0	that we were going to have you on the podcast because when your women in education talk came out,
2:04.0	I think I listened to it at least three or four times and then I told a friend of mine and she was like,
2:10.0	please thank her for me and tell her that I listened at least seven times.
2:14.0	So thank you on behalf of all of us. Wow, thank you. That's super humbling and really sweet.
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