You may recognize Sister Carol McConkie from her service in a previous Young Women General Presidency, but her latest assignment has given her new perspective into the role and influence of women.

President Dallin H. Oaks announced six new General Authority Seventies during the April 2022 general conference. Read about these Church leaders here.

"I know people who come to church every Sunday so that they can be inspired and uplifted and who just simply walk away feeling judged and unloved—unneeded, like there is no place for them at church," Sister Carol F. McConkie, first counselor in the Young Women general presidency, says at the start of a powerful Church video released as part of a series designed to reach those who feel they don't belong at Church.

Making a pilgrimage is to undertake a journey to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion. Anciently, pagan pilgrims sought to consult the oracles and offer sacrifices at places now familiar to us as impressive ruins. Millions of Buddhists, Muslims, and Hindus annually seek enlightenment through the very act of making a journey to sacred sites around the world—not as tourists but rather as pilgrims. The four Gospels tell us that Herod’s temple in Jerusalem was the destination for pilgrims who attended three annual pilgrimage festivals. The journeys were required for all adult Jewish men until the destruction of the temple in 70 A.D. The Gospels record that Jesus, His family, and His disciples made their way to Jerusalem in obedience to tradition and to express their religious devotion. The most familiar pilgrimage was, of course, the Passover Feast, a celebration meant to commemorate the release from bondage of the Children of Israel in Egypt.

Sister Carol F. McConkie, the first counselor in the Young Women general presidency, recently shared a video on Facebook that reminds us amidst the chaos of life that prayer should remain a priority, that through its power, we will find peace and balance.

With all the challenges that come with living in the latter-days, it can sometimes be difficult to recognize the love that God has for us. In her recent BYU Women's Conference address, sister Carol F. McConkie, First Counselor in the Young Women General Presidency, shared four ways for us to know God loves us.

Speaking to a group in the Hinckley Alumni Building on the university campus, Sister McConkie addressed four questions regarding modesty:

In his October 2015 general conference talk, Elder David A. Bednar, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, spoke of the final years in the lives of recent church leaders.

Since she was a young girl, Carol Foley McConkie has had a “longing for the temple.” That focus has directed the new first counselor in the Young Women general presidency in her actions throughout her life. Born on April 23, 1952, in Spokane, Washington, to Williams and Joanne W. Foley, she was just a toddler when missionaries knocked on her parents’ door in Wilmington, Delaware, introducing her family to the gospel.

There are at least three significant details in John’s report of this particular night during the Feast of the Tabernacles or Sukkot—one of the three most important feast-days and celebrations of the Jewish calendar year—that make for enriched interpretation of Jesus’s declaration in these verses.