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Relief Society in Action highlights the volunteer service of Latter-day Saint women in their communities around the world. <\/i>The Relief Society<\/i><\/a> is an organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for women age 18 and older. It has more than 7.1 million members and is one of the largest women\u2019s organizations in the world. Today, we feature news spanning the last few months from Australia, Indonesia, El Salvador, Korea\u00a0and Canada.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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Newsroom features stories from its dozens of websites worldwide to show what members and leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are doing to serve their communities. Today, we feature news from Papua New Guinea, Canada, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Thailand, Bolivia, Mexico, Peru, Panama, Korea, and North America.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cElder Gong Visits Paraguay to Celebrate Milestones in Mobility Aid: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has donated approximately 10,000 wheelchairs to the Solidarity Foundation in Paraguay over the past 13 years. Elder Gerrit W. Gong of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles visited the foundation with his wife, Susan, on November 11, 2024.\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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We drove down to Spanish Fork this morning, with friends, for the funeral services of Sirkku Unelma Skousen, the wife of Royal Skousen. \u00a0I\u2019ve said several times here that I consider funerals among the very best meetings in the Church, and today\u2019s funeral lived up to my expectations.<\/p>\n
First, a word about the music: \u00a0The opening hymn was one favorites: \u00a0\u201cBe Still, My Soul,\u201d by (appropriately enough, given that Sirkku\u2019s birthplaces was Rautio, Finland) the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. \u00a0I love the melody, and I love the English lyrics, which were translated in the nineteenth century by Jane Borthwick from the eighteenth-century German lyrics of Katharina von Schlegel:<\/p>\n
1 Be still, my soul; the Lord is on thy side;
\nbear patiently the cross of grief or pain.
\nLeave to thy God to order and provide;
\nin every change He faithful will remain.
\nBe still, my soul; thy best, thy heav\u2019nly Friend
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2 Be still, my soul; thy God doth undertake
\nto guide the future as He has the past.
\nThy hope, thy confidence let nothing shake;
\nall now mysterious shall be bright at last.
\nBe still, my soul; the waves and winds still know
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3 Be still, my soul; when dearest friends depart,
\nand all is darkened in the veil of tears,
\nthen shalt thou better know His love, His heart,
\nwho comes to soothe thy sorrow and thy fears.
\nBe still, my soul; thy Jesus can repay
\nfrom His own fullness all He takes away.<\/p>\n
4 Be still, my soul; the hour is hast\u2019ning on
\nwhen we shall be forever with the Lord,
\nwhen disappointment, grief, and fear are gone,
\nsorrow forgot, love\u2019s purest joys restored.
\nBe still, my soul; when change and tears are past,
\nall safe and blessed we shall meet at last.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
That was a great opening. \u00a0It\u2019s a hymn that I would actually like to be included in my own funeral \u2014 assuming, of course, that anybody other than me attends<\/em> my funeral. \u00a0(I myself don\u2019t plan to sing during that meeting.) \u00a0But there may be a complication: \u00a0I was discouraged to learn from one of the friends with whom we drove to Sirkku\u2019s service that \u201cBe Still, My Soul\u201d will likely not be included in the forthcoming new Latter-day Saint hymnal. \u00a0Apparently there have been copyright complications. \u00a0And the same is true for one of the hymns that was featured in the postlude after the funeral: \u00a0\u201cBecause I Have Been Given Much.\u201d \u00a0(Possible confirmation of what she said can be found if you look the two hymns up in the Church\u2019s hymnal online, here<\/a> and here<\/a>.) \u00a0The news saddens me.<\/p>\n
Four of Sirkku\u2019s children shared reminiscences of growing up with their Finnish mother. \u00a0Mandee Lawson, a music therapist with Valeo Hospice, sang \u201cFamily Home.\u201d \u00a0This is a song based upon one of Sirkku\u2019s favorites \u2014 \u201cCountry Roads,\u201d by John Denver \u2014 but with words modified for the service by Sister Lawson, along with two of Sirkku\u2019s children.<\/p>\n
Then, Royal himself spoke. \u00a0His remarks were entitled \u201cThe Gospel of Jesus Christ in Sirkku\u2019s Life: Sirkku Skousen\u2019s Legacy,\u201d and they were, well, remarkable. \u00a0His tribute to Sirkku, including the story of her conversion to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and her contributions to the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project, was powerful. \u00a0So was his brief narration of the story of the Project itself, which included unexpected shout-outs to me and Jack Welch. \u00a0I was afraid that he might become too, well, fierce<\/em> on this theme. \u00a0In my judgment, though, he didn\u2019t. \u00a0And he closed with a description of Sirkku\u2019s great loyalty to the Church itself, based on powerful personal revelation that she had received. \u00a0That loyalty was of enormous help to Royal at difficult moments, and he gave the credit to her. \u00a0He spoke, too, of her devotion to family history and temple work.<\/p>\n
Some portion of what Royal had to say today \u2014 a substantial part, though I don\u2019t know exactly how much<\/em> \u2014 will ultimately appear in the next part to be published by his Critical Text Project. \u00a0I wonder whether a video of his remarks will be available online. \u00a0I hope so.<\/p>\n
It was good to see several friends at the service. \u00a0I know most of the Skousen siblings, for example, and I visited with or at least (I think) greeted all of them. \u00a0And Paul Hoskisson was there. \u00a0And my friend Jack Welch, who came over to sit near us. \u00a0He and I spoke before and after the funeral.<\/p>\n
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