RS Meeting Ideas

By jtolman • August 31st, 2010

I’ve been thinking about ward activity lately.  There are wards with just a few people to draw from, and other wards where there are more members than callings.  I really feel for the Bishop who has to juggle a certain number of members, attitudes, abilities, and strength.  The Relief Society President can help with this [...]

If you got the September 2010 issue of the Ensign, or Liahona, you’ve probably seen the article about Relief Society:  Using Relief Society Meetings to Teach and Inspire.  You can also find it on line at lds.org. This article gives several ideas for planning your Relief Society meetings.   Realize that the General Board has made [...]

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 [...]

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 haven’t ever talked about health before, but I am at the age where my body is giving out and I’m anxiously awaiting my “perfected” body. But it occurs to me, aren’t we commanded to take care of the body we have now? Boy, if that’s the case, I may be in trouble! Our world [...]

 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 [...]

Ahhh!!! Family History. How does one get the sisters excited about Family History? Typically, every ward has a Bishop who puts some form of Family History on his list of goals for the year. Sometimes it’s measurable, sometimes not. Does anything come of it? Do you know, by the end of the year, what has [...]

At Conference, Elder Ballard reminded us of the series of talks he has been giving us lately. Like many of you, I have forgotten them.  This is just another example of why great talks should be remembered, and referred to, often. Starting with “Daughters of God”, he talks about motherhood and offers answers to some [...]

Did you know you are going to have to sing a song when you get to the pearly gates, in order to get in?  Don’t worry, though.  The words are in the scriptures, in your testimony, in your life lived, and in your love of the Savior. You don’t even need to worry about whether [...]

Who doesn’t love to hear a story?  The more I interact with people the more I realize the value of Heavenly Father’s children, my friends, who ALL have stories to tell. When we think of Family History work, we might think the same boring thing: research a bunch of faceless names and dates.  If you [...]