Liz Hammond

ELIZABETH HAMMOND {[email protected]} graduated from Cornell University with a degree in Near Eastern Studies. She contributes to the blog feministmormonhousewives.org, entertains an ongoing passion for issues related to childbirth and female empowerment, and spends most of her time as a Mormon mom managing her kids in their new home in Seoul, South Korea.

Woman: Joint Heiress With Christ

Articles/Essays – Volume 47, No. 1

I’ve been asked to speak on the topic of women who have inspired me, how they’ve helped me, and how I honor them in my life.

I want to start with a remarkable experience I had in this ward, when a group of Primary girls inspired me in a life-changing way. I was teaching the senior Primary about the stories of Jesus, and they were very squirmy so I decided to harness this energy into a spontaneous form of kinesthetic learning. I said: “Let’s act out things people do to show they are following the Savior’s example!”