President Gordon B. Hinckley's Challenge and Promise

President Gordon B. Hinckley said in a

worldwide leadership training meeting:

“I am convinced there is no other organization anywhere to match the Relief Society of this Church.

If they will be UNITED and speak with ONE VOICE,

Their STRENGTH will be INCALCULABLE!”

10 January 2004, 20

Relief Society - A Restoration of an Ancient Form

RELIEF SOCIETY

“A Restoration of an Ancient Pattern”


Although the name may be modern date,

the institution is of ANCIENT ORIGIN.

We were told by our martyred prophet

that the same organization EXISTED

in the church ANCIENTLY.”

Eliza R. Snow

(Published in: “Daughters in My Kingdom”)

Monday, January 2, 2012

We Are Going to do Something Extraordinary!

I wanted to recap our Relief Society lesson, yesterday...for those who could not attend our class...It will be very brief, but I hope to write out the essence of the lesson...

Our lesson was based on the Preface of "Daughters in My Kingdom"...

I was struck by the statement Sister Emma Smith made in the first Relief Society meeting...She said, "We are going to do something extraordinary."
 
As I pondered on HOW do we accomplished the "extraordinary"...I felt the answer was found in the Book of Mormon...
Speaking of the sons of Mosiah after a 14 year mission:

Alma 17 - VERSE 2 ... "they were still his brethren in the Lord; yea, and they had waxed STRONG in the KNOWLEDGE of the TRUTH; for they were men of a SOUND UNDERSTANDING and they had SEARCHED the SCRIPTURES DILIGENTLY, that they might KNOW the WORD OF GOD."

VERSE 3... "But this is not all; they had given themselves to MUCH PRAYER and FASTING; therefore they had the SPIRIT of PROPHECY, and the SPIRIT of REVELATION, and when they TAUGHT, they TAUGHT with POWER and AUTHORITY of GOD."

This dear sisters is the FORMULA to becoming:
  • STRONG in the KNOWLEDGE of the truth and of SOUND UNDERSTANDING - we SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES!
  • To have the SPIRIT of PROPHECY and REVELATION and to be able to TEACH with POWER and AUTHORITY OF GOD - we must PRAY OFTEN and FAST OFTEN...
 
Father KNOWS us...HIS DAUGHTERS - LOVES US...and TRUSTS us with "sacred responsibilities" and will GUIDE US as to HOW to FULFILL our responsibilities...

Sister Belle S. Spafford, the ninth Relief Society general President, said: “The average woman today, I believe, would do well to appraise her interests, evaluate the activities in which she is engaged, and then take steps to simplify her life, putting things of first importance first, placing emphasis where the rewards will be greatest and most enduring, and ridding herself of the less rewarding activities.”

Alma also taught: “By small and simple things are great things brought to pass.” (Alma 37:6)

We collectively and individually can and will do "extraordinary things…

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