Renata Forste- BYU Women's Conference 2010
Our ward in Hyde Park in Chicago was very diverse, but I felt united with the Relief Society
sisters as we cared for each other. I was disheartened to hear later from a friend in the ward,
after I had graduated, and my husband and I had moved to Washington state, that divisions later
arose among some of the sisters. The Hyde Park ward included long-time south side residents,
as well as university students that were in the ward only a few years. At one point, there was a
group of sisters, student wives in particular, that felt that their challenges and needs were so
unique that they needed separate attention apart from the south side sisters. Some of these
student wives felt the need to have their own Relief Society classes specific to them. They
preferred to only socialize and visit teach each other. These sisters did not allow the gospel of
Jesus Christ to unify them – but instead, being absorbed in their own needs, wanted to be apart.
They felt they could only come together and be sustained by those they shared the same
circumstances with – other young student wives. Focused on themselves, they could not see the
strength and wisdom available to them by joining together with all the sisters in the ward.
http://ce.byu.edu/cw/womensconference/archive/2010/pdf/Renata_Forste_2010.pdf
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