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General Conference speaker · October 2000 to October 2001

Sister Sheri L. Dew

Second Counselor in the Relief Society General Presidency

Sister Sheri L. Dew gave 3 General Conference talks from October 2000 to October 2001. The main topics of these talks are Women and Relief Society and Family and Marriage. The verse cited most often is Mosiah 18:9. Weak Things has 3 sketch notes of these talks.

All speakers 3 sketch notes ↓

3talks since 2000

5kwords · about 38 minutes

10.0footnotes per talk (all speakers: 12.3)

41different verses cited

0later talks by others cite these talks

01 · The timeline

Every conference, April 2000 to April 2026

Each dot is a conference where Sister Dew spoke. Hover for the talk; click to open its sketch note.

Callings listed with these talks: Second Counselor in the Relief Society General Presidency

02 · Topic fingerprint

What these talks are about

The main topic of each talk, shown as petals. Longer petals mean more talks. Gold petals are topics this speaker chooses at least 1.5 times as often as the average speaker.

Women and Relief Society2 talks25.5× average
Family and Marriage1 talk11.6× average

Key phrases from these talks

stand tall and stand togetherstand as a witnessTwo are usually better than oneLift each otherLoving and leadingsteadfast and immovable

03 · The measuring stick

How these talks compare with every talk since 2000

The bar is this speaker. The line marks the average across all 1,909 talks.

04 · The scripture shelf

Which scriptures these talks use

Share of all verse citations by volume of scripture, compared with every speaker. Counted once per talk from footnotes and links in the text.

Verses cited most

The number is how many of these talks cite the verse. Verses with their own page link to every conference talk that cites them.

Books cited most

Doctrine and Covenants

Moses

Alma

Mosiah

Hebrews

2 Nephi

05 · Signature phrases

Words that sound like Sister Dew

Phrases that appear in these talks far more often than in other speakers' talks. Bigger type means a bigger difference. The number is how many of these talks use the phrase.

woman of god³work of women²lord’s secret weapon²sickles and reap²righteous women³build the kingdom³help build²along the path²lord’s kingdom²power of jesus²

06 · Who these talks quote

The voices in the footnotes

Leaders named in the footnotes, outside authors named in the text or footnotes, and the conference speakers whose talks are cited. Each counts talks, not mentions.

Church leaders quoted

Harold B. Lee

Spencer W. Kimball

Gordon B. Hinckley

Conference speakers cited

These talks do not link to earlier conference talks in their footnotes.

Outside authors

No outside authors on the Bookshelf list are named in these talks.

07 · Who quotes them

How later talks build on these talks

Footnotes in later talks do not yet link to these talks. Newer talks often take a few conferences to be cited.

Speakers who cite these talks most

None yet.

08 · Kindred voices

Speakers whose talks cover similar ground

Matched by the mix of main and secondary topics. 100 would be an identical mix.

Sister Virginia U. Jensen80 topic match Sister Mary Ellen W. Smoot79 topic match Sister Julie B. Beck79 topic match Sister Bonnie D. Parkin68 topic match

The sketch notes

3 talks, one page each

Hand-drawn sketch notes from Weak Things. Each page links to the full talk on ChurchofJesusChrist.org.

Sketch note of Are We Not All Mothers? by Sheri L. Dew

Are We Not All Mothers?October 2001

Sketch note of It Is Not Good for Man or Woman to Be Alone by Sheri L. Dew

It Is Not Good for Man or Woman to Be AloneOctober 2001

Sketch note of Stand Tall and Stand Together by Sheri L. Dew

Stand Tall and Stand TogetherOctober 2000

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Every talk

All 3 talks, newest first

Titles open the Weak Things sketch note. "Read" opens the official talk on ChurchofJesusChrist.org, the source for every number on this page.

Talk	Conference	Main topic	Words	Footnotes	Source
Are We Not All Mothers?	Oct 2001	Women and Relief Society	1926	12	Read ↗
It Is Not Good for Man or Woman to Be Alone	Oct 2001	Family and Marriage	1674	18	Read ↗
Stand Tall and Stand Together	Oct 2000	Women and Relief Society	2063	0	Read ↗

Sources and method

Where these numbers come from

Talk text, footnotes and callings come from the official General Conference pages on ChurchofJesusChrist.org. Every talk above links to its source.
Coverage is April 2000 through April 2026: 1,909 talks by 370 speakers. Sustainings, audit and statistical reports, and videos are left out. October 2026 joins once its text is posted.
Verse counts use scripture links in footnotes and talk text, counted once per talk. "Cited by" counts later talks whose footnotes link to one of these talks.
Main topics are estimates assigned by a language model from each talk's opening and closing. Signature phrases compare how many of these talks use a phrase with how many other talks do.
Leaders quoted are found by name in footnotes. Outside authors are found by name in the text and footnotes. Sketch notes are Weak Things study aids, not official Church materials.