{"id":2005,"date":"2010-06-07T11:01:11","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T17:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ldswomenofgod.com\/blog\/?p=2005"},"modified":"2019-01-29T12:15:42","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T18:15:42","slug":"julie-bangerter-beck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reliefsocietywomen.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/07\/julie-bangerter-beck\/","title":{"rendered":"Julie Bangerter Beck"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Julie Bangerter was born on September 29, 1954, in the Salt Lake Valley, but her early years would be spent in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where her father served as the Mission President for the entire country. Her father, Elder W. Grant Bangerter, and his second wife\u00a0would raise eleven children together, Julie being the oldest of that second family. Her mother served as the district Relief Society president. Unable to speak Portuguese at the time, she was able to communicate through the Spirit by bearing testimony in a few memorized phrases. Little by little, more sisters came, learned, and testified among each other.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maybe you can imagine what it might have been like to be a member of a large family everyone looked to for example and direction. Julie says they all learned to work, behave well, and stay out of trouble. They didn\u2019t have a farm to instill work ethic, but they had music, which played an important part in their home, where they were kept busy, and focused.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sis. Beck graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in family science. In between semesters, on December 28, 1973, she married Ramon P. Beck in the Salt Lake Temple. They have three children.<\/span><\/p>\n

She has held several callings in the Relief Society and Young Women organizations. In 2002, she was called as Susan W. Tanner\u2019s first counselor in the General Young Women\u2019s Presidency. From that position, she was called as the General Relief Society President in March 2007.<\/span><\/p>\n

When Sis. Beck was called, taking over where Sis. Parkin left off, she immediately stated\u00a0<\/span>her objectives in her first two addresses: What Latter-day Saint Women Do Best: Stand Strong and Immovable <\/em><\/a>and Mothers Who Know<\/em><\/a>. She was blasted by feminist groups in stating clearly that mothers need to stay home with their children, and all women need to be more spiritual in nature. It was a tough way to start, but she held firm with her consistent effort to pull the sisters together in a strong and immovable surge of womanhood.<\/span><\/p>\n

From the beginning, she focused her presidency with these purposes in mind:<\/span><\/p>\n