(Adapted from a Sacrament Meeting talk given on March 11, 2018, Mothering Sunday in the UK) As Zina Young (who later became the third General Relief Society President) was grieving the death of her mother, she asked Joseph Smith “Will I know my mother as my mother when I get over to the Other Side?” The prophet responded, "Certainly you will. More than that, you will meet and become acquainted with your eternal Mother, the wife of your Father in Heaven". 1 One of the most cheerful doctrines embraced by the Church of Jesus Christ is that we know we have, in addition to a Father in Heaven, a Mother in Heaven. In a Gospel Topics Essay we read “The doctrine of a Heavenly Mother is a cherished and distinctive belief among Latter-day Saints… All human beings, male and female, are beloved spirit children of... a Heavenly Mother.” 2 President Dallin H. Oaks taught: “Our theology begins with heavenly parents. Our highest aspiration is to be like them.” 3 If ...
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