Rejuvenating 17,000 women
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PROVO, Utah — "Kind of a spa for the soul" is how Rebecca Lemmon described BYU Women's Conference, the annual event she has attended for four years with her mother and sisters.
"I come to be with my family. I come to be with my sisters, to get away from pressures of daily life and just kind of rejuvenate," declared the mother of two from Santa Clara, Utah, while eating her lunch in welcome sunshine after a day of rain.
In fact, despite rainy, chilly weather, more than 17,000 women came from throughout the country and even from some nations outside the U.S., to attend the two-day conference held on the campus of BYU on April 28-29. They filed across campus holding umbrellas as they attended nearly 100 sessions and workshops, including four general sessions. In the evening, they visited "Sharing Stations" and volunteered at service stations on campus where they assembled 44,975 hygiene kits, 13,374 school kits and 6,520 newborn kits, and did a variety of projects for community agencies.
Offering the keynote address during the closing session on April 29 were Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf of the Quorum of the Twelve and his wife, Sister Harriet F. Uchtdorf. Also, Elder F. Burton Howard of the Seventy delivered a general session address. These addresses and other addresses from sessions presented at the 2005 BYU Women's Conference are excerpted on pages 6-7 of this week's Church News.
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