Relief Society Women

To know the history, purpose, and destiny of the Relief Society

A Double-Sided Parentage

By Jan Tolman

July 22, 2019

A lot of us complain about how hard it is to be a parent, but Boyd K. Packer made me think of parentage in a whole new way in his October 1984 talk, The Pattern of Our Parentage. We are not merely parents of naughty children. We are future gods raising future gods. This idea […]

Obligations of Membership in Relief Society

By Jan

January 11, 2012

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| Feature, History, Priesthood/Relief Society

Back in 1969, Elder Harold B. Lee was asked, by the Relief Society General Presidency, to address the women on the obligations of membership in the Relief Society. I’ve outlined a little of what he said: He quoted the First Presidency, who spoke at the Relief Society Centennial, in 1947: “Frequent recurrence to fundamentals is […]