More than 20,000 LDS girls and women gathered in the Conference Center in downtown Salt Lake City — while millions more watched in Mormon meetinghouses across the globe — Saturday night for the faith’s General Women’s Meeting, bringing together for the first time LDS females from 8 years old to 80 and older.
Noting the historic nature of the session, Bonnie L. Oscarson, general president of the church’s Young Women organization, declared: "The combined power of our testimonies and faith in Jesus Christ surely constitutes one of the most faith-filled and powerful assemblies of women in the history of [The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints], if not the world."
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