Hey everyone, as promised, we're here with Barbara Morgan Gardner, the author of The Priesthood Power of Women in the Temple, Church, and Family.

To finish out our Q&A from episode 24, where we talked about the priesthood power in relationship to Alma

chapters 13 through 16. Now if you miss that you really will want to go back and

listen to the whole episode before you jump in with us here. There's a lot of

great context and information there and scripture references that you are going to want to read.

Many of you submitted these great questions and we won't be able to get to all of them, but we're sure going to try and

hit as many as we can. So Barb, are you ready to do this? Let's do this thing. Okay. Let's dig in, all right.

Okay, well before we talk about questions, the exact questions, I want to talk about this, the idea of being anonymous which which is

fantastic I just noticed that some people and the questions they were asking

here and then also in just my own experience there have been a lot of people who

have written me a note and they just say they prefer to stay anonymous or please keep my name anonymous or please don't tell anybody I have these questions and I just wanted to just talk about that a little bit.

First of all, I think it's extremely important that we remember.

The Prophet of the Church, the First Presidency, all of the senior members of the

Corps of the Twelve Apostles, the entire General

Society presidency of the church and every other women leader right now in the church

is literally asking us to talk about this topic.

So there's no reason to be nervous.

There's no reason to feel like we can't.

Frankly, there's really not a lot of reason

to feel anonymous.

And I'm just gonna throw maybe a few reasons why I've noticed that people have felt that.

One is I think that people are afraid that if they have questions about the priesthood that somehow they want the priesthood.

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