Relief Society/Young Women

By jtolman • August 27th, 2010

The Relief Society Magazine used to have a feature entitled, “Unusual Mothers”.  It would spotlight women who had given birth to a large number of children.   Often these women spotlighted were women who had sixteen, eighteen, or more children.  Indeed, those numbers are unusual, even for then, and deserve some honor.  As I understand it, [...]

Have you ever been visit taught and the companionship begins a game of “I have it worse” in front of you, leaving you out completely?  Maybe you’ve visited someone only to have them list, and repeat, their ailments until you have to boldly look at your watch and excuse yourself.  Such are the joys of Visiting [...]

I have often wondered why the Relief Society has changed our meeting system, suggesting our meetings be less frequent, less structured, and less demanding.   For the past several years I have seen wards either have too many “fun” activities to keep an imaginary quota, or drop all activities, because they don’t know what they want [...]

Emmeline B. Wells (5th RS President) did a lot of writing in her day.  She had an opinion about everything, especially woman; how she should be treated, what she could accomplish, and what she should do with her life. Emmeline wrote under many pseudonyms, including Amethyst, who is the author of this interesting article I [...]

If you ever wondered about the value of a woman, just read these words from President John Taylor.  I hope we finally learn to understand just how important a womanly woman is. “The Latter-day Saints have often been ridiculed on account of their belief in the pre-existence of spirits, and for marrying for time and [...]

Everyone born on this earth has at least one talent.  So many people will say “except me”, or “I was late standing in line that day” or some other self-deprecating comment.  But that fact remains true:  Everyone has at least one talent, and more than likely they have more. Why is it wards tend to [...]

I felt President Uchtdorf’s talk on “You are my hands” was geared directly toward the Relief Society.  If we neglect, or are too busy, to act upon the two great commandments, “we are missing the point.”  As sisters in the Relief Society, we cannot afford to miss the point. He spotlighted many examples  of Jesus [...]

The doctrine of the priesthood is the key to working effectively in the Church. What is the doctrine of the priesthood?  Let’s look at D&C 121:45. This section of the Doctrine and Covenants was received by the Prophet Joseph Smith near the end of a four-month stay in the horrible Liberty Jail. He was told [...]

 I have been playing around with an idea for an experiment, but need some of you Relief Society Presidents to put it into action for me.  I just want to see if it would work.  Is anyone game?  If you are…you just need a two-month block of time to see it through.  Please get back [...]

Relief Society is made up of two different types of sisters: Active sisters who come to Church regularly, and Inactive sisters who feel displaced, weak, and insecure. Each individual sister ranges somewhere within these two groups. Active sisters make up THE CORE of the ward. They are dependable, responsible, willing to serve, support, and help [...]