Many parallels exist between "building a temple and fulfilling a calling." For the past seven years, "this Relief Society presidency has been building. We have added a churchwide literacy effort to our education focus; we have emphasized the principle of watching over and caring for our sisters through visiting teaching; we have continued to place home and family at the center of our attention and honored the divine nature of women as they nurture, sacrifice, teach and inspire.
"Wonderful things have happened because of the women of the church who have tended children and tended each other, taught self-reliance and taught of the Savior."
Laying her "small stone at the front gate entrance of Relief Society," Sister Jack likened her service and the service of other general presidents who preceded her to building a temple and fulfilling a calling.
"We begin with bare ground and we start to work. We survey the situation, pray for inspiration, thoughtfully formulate plans, send them for review, adjust and plan again. We firm up a foundation and then add walls, a roof and even gardens."