Time Out for Women comes to Salt Lake City

On Friday night at a Time Out for Women event, Sheri Dew admitted to once saying: \"We will never take this to Salt Lake City.\"\"I mean why would you?\" said Dew, the CEO of Deseret Book. \"Nobody would come.\"Dew then looked out over the audience of more than 3,000 local women seated in the Salt Lake City Convention Center and smiled.\"I was wrong,\" she said.Time Out for Women events — featuring motivational speakers, music and products — have been held all over the country for the past seven years, but this is the first time it's been held in Utah's capital city.The 19-stop \"Sweet Assurance\" tour is designed to be a meeting unlike any other, said the tour director, Laurel Christensen.Dew said women come to meetings to be changed, \"to leave different than we came.\"She talked about the influence of women and said nothing else quite compares with the phenomenal amount of influence wives and mothers have.__IMAGE1__\"Think about who you are influencing,\" she said. \"Who's influencing you? We're here. We're on assignment from God.\"Dew said the adversary is wroth with women because of their good influence and is trying to pollute the idea of motherhood and everything that goes with it.She discussed the impact a speech on chastity had on people in the audience at a recent World Conference on Families in Amsterdam.\"As I prepared, I kept having the feeling I ought to speak about chastity,\" she said, even though she realized she would be speaking in a country that has very loose morals in place.After she spoke, various people kept coming up to her and commenting that they had never been taught those truths.\"My greatest takeaway was how many people responded to the truth and how many had never heard it before,\" she said. \"Truth has a profound influence.\"She said Satan would have women become confused about who they are and what they understand.If he can confuse women about their gender and role, keep them from understanding Christ and his Atonement and keep women from learning to receive personal revelation, he can thwart God's plan, she said.\"But if we are clear about who we are and what Christ did for us and constantly increase our capacity for receiving revelation, there's nothing we can't do.\"