Last week, we studied about Esther in Come Follow Me, but we didn’t get to have a lesson about her. We are so blessed to have an entire book of scripture to tell her story! She showed great courage when she went to the king to ask him to reverse the decree to kill her people. She did not have an invitation to approach him and could have been killed, but she did it anyway. I am impressed with her courage and her faith. Her story reminded me of President Nelson’s talk “Spiritual Treasures” from the October 2019 General Conference and my new favorite scripture. Speaking to the sisters of the Church, our prophet said, “Every woman and every man who makes covenants with God and keeps those covenants, and who participates worthily in priesthood ordinances, has direct access to the power of God… The heavens are just as open to women who are endowed with God’s power flowing from their priesthood covenants as they are to men who bear the priesthood… Sisters,...
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