Chapter 34: Ministering Friendships
All women, ages eighteen to one hundred and eight, in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have automatic membership in Relief Society. This membership brings many perks, perhaps the greatest of which is to have millions of sisters. Your sisters in the gospel can help you, teach you, and inspire you. They can cry and laugh with you. They can understand you because you share common values and aspirations. Some gospel sisters are as close and their friendship as precious as if you were born of the same mother. George Eliot described such a friendship: “Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of ki...