We learn that Relief Society sisters in the past faced difficult times, but today we are also battling a determined enemy who wants to destroy our faith and families and leave us alone and suffering. Our Relief Society history provides context for everything we do. Through the Prophet Joseph Smith, the Savior gave women of this dispensation a call to help carry out His work.
We learn through our history who we are and our vital role in our Heavenly Father's plan. We can't delegate our responsibilities to someone else. Because our Heavenly Father knows us and loves us, He will sustain us as we seek to align our will with His. "Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and endure to the end, behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall have eternal life" (2 Nephi 31:20).
Increase Faith and Personal Righteousness
Strengthen Families and Homes
Seek Out and Help Those in Need
Mary and the Resurrected Lord, by Harry Anderson
Photo illustrations by Matthew Reier and Howard Collett
1.Eliza R. Snow, quoted in Daughters in My Kingdom: The History and Work of Relief Society (2011), 46.
2.See Daughters in My Kingdom, 91–92.
3.See Daughters in My Kingdom, xiii.
4.See Daughters in My Kingdom, 17.
5.See Daughters in My Kingdom, 67–68.
6.Joseph Smith, quoted in Daughters in My Kingdom, 12.
7.Barbara W. Winder, quoted in Daughters in My Kingdom, 140.
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