Mindy Booth Baxter | Infertility and Believing in a God of Miracles

Latter-day Saint Women Podcast

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

5 • 670 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

How do you move forward with faith and hope when your righteous desires go unmet? How do you find belonging and meaning when your life path doesn’t fit “the mold” or what you anticipated or expected? In this episode, we talk with Mindy Booth Baxter, a member of the Relief Society Advisory Council, about the “revelation-led leaps of faith” that led her away from a successful career in New York City to culinary school, new opportunities to serve, and marriage in her 40s. Sister Baxter courageously shares her personal journey with infertility, and how she has found healing through turning to God and Jesus Christ in her suffering. She offers hope and understanding to others struggling with infertility and provides helpful suggestions on how we all can better minister to and comfort those we love. Resources: Mindy Booth Baxter Bio https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/callings/relief-society-organization/this-is-your-relief-society/general-leaders/mindy-booth-baxter?lang=eng Elder Neil L. Andersen BYU Devotional Speech, "A Compensatory Spiritual Power for the Righteous" https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/neil-l-andersen/a-compensatory-spiritual-power-for-the-righteous/ President Henry B. Eyring BYU Devotional Speech, "A Law of Increasing Returns" https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/henry-b-eyring/law-increasing-returns/?fbclid=IwAR0gpMJ3EPSHUH_Y1qcGXGCaDgtw0Ay6Q2_bXV9Nzzj2-m8um17o_ZcQISc Elder Richard G. Scott General Conference Address, "Finding Joy in Life" https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/1996/04/finding-joy-in-life?lang=eng Ministering Resources https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/ministering?lang=eng&cid=rdb_ministering_eng_ministering_churchofjesuschrist-org Transcript: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/inspiration/latter-day-saints-channel/bc/mormon-channel/images/audio/lds-women/pdf/Mindy-Booth-Baxter.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.
0:11.4	You'll get to know the faithful women who shaped our past and hear from inspiring women of faith today.
0:16.7	I'm Shailen Back.
0:17.7	And I'm Carly Geiman.
0:19.0	We're your co-host.
0:20.0	And today we are so excited to welcome Sister Mindy Booth Baxter as our guest.
0:24.7	Sister Baxter, welcome.
0:25.9	Thank you.
0:26.5	I'm happy to be here.
0:27.4	We're excited to have you.
0:28.4	We've been looking forward to this.
0:29.7	Thanks.
0:30.6	We'll briefly introduce Mindy, but we'll also be talking a lot about her experiences and excited
0:36.1	to do that. So Sister Baxter has been serving
0:38.8	on the Relief Society Advisory Council, previously known as the board, under President Gene B.
0:43.9	Bingham since 2017. She was raised in Salt Lake City. She worked in international development.
0:50.0	She spent time studying and working in New York City and now is a chef. She married her husband
0:54.8	Ryan Baxter in 2018. So, Mindy, we're just excited to have you here today and fun to see you in person again.
1:00.8	Thank you. Nice to see you too. So Sister Baxter, we first met a couple years ago and since first
1:06.5	meeting you, I've always been so interested. You have a very varied and impressive personal and
1:12.5	professional background. We kind of mentioned from working on Wall Street and serving as a relief
1:18.0	society president in New York City to helping found a food truck in Utah and maybe even elsewhere
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