"I'd given many patriarchal blessings over the years before I was called to be a mission president. While I received the promptings of the spirit in every case and could feel of the love that our Heavenly Father had for the person being blessed, sometimes those prompting came more easily than others. And sometimes the feelings that came were to exhort as much as to bless.
"But there are a handful of blessing I gave that stand as cherished memories and taught me things that could only be taught when the veil between us and our Heavenly home was thinned. With mother's day approaching, and as you prepare to call your mothers and affirm your love while sharing the love they have for you, I wish to share one experience that confirmed to me that there is another Mother who's love for us is as great or greater and who will shower us with that love when we return to Her.
"I had prepared for this particular blessing in the same way as I did every other. Fasting and praying that I'd be able to receive the special message that our Father had for this, one of His children. Sister <Mission President's Wife> was the recorder of the blessing and we met the young lady who was receiving her blessing with her mother and father at our home. As I began to give the blessing I was over-whelmed with a feeling of love that I could not express. As tears began to run down my face, I heard the words as audibly as you hear me now, and in a female voice, "Tell them to love her for me. Love her for me." I knew, without a doubt, that this young woman had a very special relationship with her Mother in Heaven. And in this one case, She chose to reach through the veil to make that love known."
This is the only time I have ever heard the sacred nature of our Mother in Heaven spoke of or taught in a formal church setting. But it still moves me to share it. I don't know that I did the original telling justice.