The Arizona Beehive June July 2020 Issue

Serving Arizona Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

June – July, 2020 • Vol 46 • No 3 • Est 1975

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Sisters & Saints

by Merry Gordon

Three Arizona Latter-day Saint Women to Watch

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ister Sheri L. Dew, CEO of Deseret Books and former Second Counselor in the Relief Society General Presidency, called women “the Lord’s secret weapon.” She went on to say, “It is time for us to wake up to the potential magnitude of our full influence as latter-day women of God and then to arise and do what we were sent here to do.” In this issue, The Arizona Beehive highlights three Arizona Latter-day Saint women who do just that.

u Evie Clair v “I know that I am never alone.”

As a singer, songwriter and reality TV personality, Evie Clair Abplanalp has packed a lifetime’s worth of experience into her short sixteen years on earth.

Her meteoric rise on the twelfth season of America’s Got Talent coincided with her father’s declining health, and Amos Abplanalp died of colon cancer the day before his daughter advanced to the finals. She competed anyway, to overwhelming acclaim. Continued on pg. 3

Photo courtesy of Hillary Abplanalp

America’s Got Talent finalist Evie Clair shoots a music video outdoors.

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