From Deseret News archives:
LDS Women's Conference focuses on discovering life's missions
Wendy Watson Nelson, wife of Elder Russell M. Nelson of the LDS Church's Quorum of the Twelve, encouraged women to seek more deeply the will of the Lord in determining how they can fill their life mission so they can be prepared to serve in unexpected ways.
She told of being seriously injured when she did an early morning "face-plant" at the Rochester airport in 2005 as she and her friend Sheri Dew former counselor in the Relief Society General presidency were returning to Salt Lake City.
"She pleaded to know what she should do to take care of me." When she finished, Nelson said her fear evaporated, the bleeding slowed and her pain diminished significantly. Paramedics were called and bandaged her face before the women boarded their flight.
During a layover, Dew called ahead for a plastic surgeon and upon arriving in Salt Lake City, they went directly to LDS Hospital, where Nelson was taken into surgery and got "well over 300 stitches."
Such preparation is vital for LDS women, who often can't anticipate how the Lord will use them to serve others in unexpected, and often unrecognized, ways. Premortal abilities and assignments were given to each woman, she said, and God expects them to listen to spiritual promptings in order to accomplish his work.
"That may mean your spirit is restless ... were you born to do something different or more than what you are presently doing? Does it mean you need to make a dramatic change? It may. Or it may not."
The key to finding out is "increasing impeccable obedience," she said.
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