At the end of the interview you're about to hear Natalie Hill Jensen told me more about a talk she references in our conversation. The talk given by our Prophet's wife, Sister Wendy Watson, Nelson, is titled,

My soul delighteth in the covenants of the Lord.

In it, she recalled receiving an email from a friend

who is asking to speak at a Relief Society activity. The topic was stress.

Her friend sent a survey out to 75 of the women in her BYU married student

housing ward to find out what was stressing them out.

The survey responses range from school, finances, lack of sleep, housework, homework,

feelings of failing at everything, and an inability to balance all of their responsibilities.

Sister Nelson says that as counterintuitive as it may seem, she responded back and encouraged her friend to offer a 21-day experiment to her Relief Society

sisters.

Invite the sisters to make a sacrifice of time to the Lord by increasing their time in family history and in temple work for the next 21 days.

Sister Nelson went on to read some of the women who accepted the invitation's experiences and then said,

sisters, my suggestion to a group of overtaxed exhausted young mothers may seem

counterintuitive and the results highly improbable.

It may even seem cruel to ask a woman who feels as though she's barely surviving

to make a sacrifice of time to the Lord.

But these young mothers proved that it works. It works for

women who have made covenants with God. Why? Because when covenant women keep their

covenants, they have greater access to the power of God.

Natalie Hill Jensen is one of the many women who have taken Sister Nelson's challenge

and who have seen results.

You may remember Natalie Hill Jensen from her days as the Mormon in Manhattan, a popular

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