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Newly called (1997) LDS Church Relief Society President Mary Ellen W. Smoot has three specific goals for Mormon women during her five years as leader of the faith's adult female members.
"We need to learn to be happy in the era of life we are in," she said Aug. 1 in an interview with the Standard-Examiner conducted in her office in the Relief Society Building in Salt Lake City.

Her office is vast and looks like a plush, pastel living room with windows looking out to the Salt Lake Temple on Temple Square and the Joseph Smith Memorial Building. Smoot and her two counselors in the church's Relief Society presidency were called in last April's session of General Conference.

Smoot said women throughout the church are always looking for happiness in the next phase of their life: when they turn 16, or 21, or when they get married, or when they have their first baby, or when their children leave home.

But she said the sisters in the church need to make the best of the time in which they are living.

Secondly, Smoot wants LDS women to be more pro-active, especially when it comes to genealogy and journal writing.

"I would like to see women get out of the mall..."

"The First Presidency participated in Thursday's ceremonial ribbon cutting at City Creek Center, signaling the long-awaited opening of Salt Lake City's newest mall."

"President Eyring spoke on behalf of the Church at Thursday's ceremony, saying City Creek is now open to invite the world to come to downtown Salt Lake City — headquarters of the Church."

Mary Ellen W. Smoot is a woman of great humility, dedication, and foresight...

Drifting wrote:

Newly called (1997) LDS Church Relief Society President Mary Ellen W. Smoot has three specific goals for Mormon women during her five years as leader of the faith's adult female members.
"We need to learn to be happy in the era of life we are in," she said Aug. 1 in an interview with the Standard-Examiner conducted in her office in the Relief Society Building in Salt Lake City.

Her office is vast and looks like a plush, pastel living room with windows looking out to the Salt Lake Temple on Temple Square and the Joseph Smith Memorial Building. Smoot and her two counselors in the church's Relief Society presidency were called in last April's session of General Conference.

Smoot said women throughout the church are always looking for happiness in the next phase of their life: when they turn 16, or 21, or when they get married, or when they have their first baby, or when their children leave home.

But she said the sisters in the church need to make the best of the time in which they are living.

Secondly, Smoot wants LDS women to be more pro-active, especially when it comes to genealogy and journal writing.


"I would like to see women get out of the mall..."

"The First Presidency participated in Thursday's ceremonial ribbon cutting at City Creek Center, signaling the long-awaited opening of Salt Lake City's newest mall."

"President Eyring spoke on behalf of the Church at Thursday's ceremony, saying City Creek is now open to invite the world to come to downtown Salt Lake City — headquarters of the Church."

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From LDS.org

Mary Ellen W. Smoot is a woman of great humility, dedication, and foresight...

Joyful wrote:I don't see anything wrong with the church building a mall.

Lesson of the widow's mite
The Lesson of the widow's mite is presented in the Synoptic Gospels (Mark 12:41-44, Luke 21:1-4), in which Jesus is teaching at the Temple in Jerusalem. The Gospel of Mark specifies that two mites (Greek lepta) are together worth a quadrans, the smallest Roman coin. A lepton was the smallest and least valuable coin in circulation in Palestine, worth about six minutes of an average daily wage.

In the story, a widow donates two small coins, while wealthy people donate much more. Jesus explains to his disciples that the small sacrifices of the poor mean more to God than the extravagant donations of the rich.

Drifting wrote:Salt Lake City's newest mall."

"President Eyring spoke on behalf of the Church at Thursday's ceremony, saying City Creek is now open to invite the world to come to downtown Salt Lake City — headquarters of the Church."