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LDS leaders had one overriding message Saturday for millions of Mormon women around the world: God loves them.
"Feeling [God's] love encourages us to press forward, reassures us that we are his, and confirms to us that he cherishes us even when we stumble and experience temporary set-backs," said Bonnie Parkin, general president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints' Relief Society, which is open to every woman age 18 and up. "We must believe that the love of Christ will never fail us. All that we do in Relief Society should reflect the love of our Savior. . . . This great love should be the source of our motivation to serve others."
Parkin and her two counselors in the three-woman presidency, Anne Pingree and Kathleen Hughes, addressed the more than 21,000 women gathered in the Conference Center in downtown Salt Lake City as well as thousands more watching via satellite in LDS chapels throughout the United...