Hurrah for Israel!

If there's one thing I love about my church, it's that the apostles and prophets say it how it is. For example, in this month's First Presidency Message about the 'Influence of Righteous Women,' president Heber J. Grant was quoted as saying "without the devotion and absolute testimony of the living God in the hearts of our mothers, this Church would die."

This afternoon, a most amusing sight caught my eye:


It would seem that this male behavior stems from the void of certain femininity. Look how still these male specimens lie on the pavement as if immobilized by the thought; "What's for dinner?" Surely left to their own devices, men would slowly solidify into statues, and some hungry statues at that. But honestly, where on Earth would we be without the righteous women in our lives? Most likely up the creek, paddle-less, and hopelessly lost despite the extra concentration of iron in our noses.

Elder Uchtdorf sums it up well, ".. you [women] are endowed with a divine birthright. You are the real builders of nations wherever you live, because strong homes of love and peace will bring security to any nation. The virtue of your own life will be a light to those who sit in darkness, because you are a living witness of the fullness of the gospel."