Have I got a treat for you! I’m so excited to share this you! Meghan Farner, of Latter-day Disciples podcast, has written a book called Consider Yourself as Eve. Here are the images of the front and back covers of the book below. Then below that I have some webinars/videos the author has done with a few screenshots from one of the videos.

The first video is the webinar she recently did with my friend Oak Norton of Scripture Notes. Learn more about Scripture Notes here.

Here are some screenshots of the video, showing an outline of the chapters of the book.

Then here’s a video below that Sister Farner did on her own YouTube Channel, Latter-day Disciples.

Here’s a video, below, that Sister Farner did with the Women and the Priesthood YouTube Channel.

I love how she talks about how priesthood ordinances play a role in the spiritual development of women. I also love that she says that a “helpmeet” is not a “little helper” but someone who helps you draw closer to Christ. It comes from Hebrew word “ezer kenegedo” which means an obvious example of a sacrificer unto death for love. Eve gave this example to Adam and we can each do it too as wives and mothers. I also love that she explains how we all have feminine and masculine aspects of ourselves, and that we can learn to align them with God’s will. She also explains how feminine and masculine aspects relate to the temple. I also love that she says we each have our own journey to follow back to God, but the ordinances to partake of on this path are universal.

Thank you Sister Meghan for these beautiful truths. They confirm what I’ve believed for decades, that Eve is a role model for each woman. She is a hero, the first female stateswoman. She sacrificed her own comfort living in the paradisiacal Garden of Eden so the mortal race could be born, so we could each have the opportunity to get a body, an earthly family, an opportunity for eternal exaltation, all resulting in joy.

As it says in the Book of Mormon Another Testament of Jesus Christ, about Eve and Adam:

“Adam (and Eve) fell that men might be, men are that they might have joy.” 2 Nephi 2:25

“And now, behold, if Adam had not transgressed he would not have fallen, but he would have remained in the garden of Eden. And all things which were created must have remained in the same state in which they were after they were created; and they must have remained forever, and had no end.” 2 Nephi 2:22

“And they would have had no children; wherefore they would have remained in a state of innocence, having no joy, for they knew no misery; doing no good, for they knew no sin.” 2 Nephi 2:23

“Now in this thing we do rejoice; and we labor diligently to engraven these words upon plates, hoping that our beloved brethren and our children will receive them with thankful hearts, and look upon them that they may learn with joy and not with sorrow, neither with contempt, concerning their first parents [Adam and Eve].” Jacob 4:3

Some of my favorite quotes about Eve from leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints:

In 1918, President Joseph F. Smith saw a vision of the spirit world. He saw many ancient prophets, including Eve. After seeing Eve, he said he saw “our glorious Mother Eve, with many of her faithful daughters who had lived through the ages and worshiped the true and living God.” 

“Eve, so recently from the eternal throne, seemed to understand the way of life, for she was happy—happy!—that they had eaten the forbidden fruit. … Our beloved mother Eve began the human race with gladness, wanting children, glad for the joy that they would bring to her, willing to assume the problems connected with a family, but also the joys.” – Spencer W. Kimball | The Women of the Church

“By revelation, Eve recognized the way home to God. She knew that the Atonement of Jesus Christ made eternal life possible in families. She was sure, as you can be, that as she kept her covenants with her Heavenly Father, the Redeemer and the Holy Ghost would see her and her family through whatever sorrows and disappointments would come. She knew she could trust in Them.” – Henry B. Eyring | Daughters in the Covenant

“Eve came as a partner, to build and to organize the bodies of mortal men. She was designed by Deity to cocreate and nurture life, that the great plan of the Father might achieve fruition.” – President Russell M. Nelson | Lessons from Eve

“We all owe a great debt of gratitude to Eve. In the Garden of Eden, she and Adam were instructed not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. However, they were also reminded, ‘Thou mayest choose for thyself.’ The choice was really between a continuation of their comfortable existence in Eden, where they would never progress, or a momentous exit into mortality with its opposites: pain, trials, and physical death in contrast to joy, growth, and the potential for eternal life.” – James E. Faust | What It Means to Be a Daughter of God

“Some Christians condemn Eve for her act, concluding that she and her daughters are somehow flawed by it. Not the Latter-day Saints! Informed by revelation, we celebrate Eve’s act and honor her wisdom and courage in the great episode called the Fall.” – Dallin H. Oaks | The Great Plan of Happiness

“A choice, it might be said, was imposed upon Eve. She should be praised for her decision.” Boyd K. Packer | For Time and All Eternity

“We believe that the creation of a woman was the crowning, and final, and most glorified moment of human creation. That we start with light and dark; and land and sea; and we move through fish and fowl; and beast of the field; and we get to Adam and it’s still not good enough… and only when Eve was created — this is our theology. You say it’s political, but for me it’s theological. That is our theology — that the crowning creation and the glory of the human experience came with the creation of Eve.” – Jeffrey R. Holland | Q&A at Harvard Law School

If you want more wonderful words about Eve, read this book below! It will change your life, as it changed mine. It tells the truth about Eve. It also involves the translation of a Hebrew word, this time, the word “beguile.” Read it to find out more! The biography of the author, Beverly Campbell, is here.