To know the history, purpose, and destiny of the Relief Society
Some General Conference sessions contain principles and doctrines that cause substantial spiritual understanding. These are the talks that require extra study and humble prayer to make us better people, ready to receive the Lord. This particular session, in April 1986, focuses on welfare. Sometimes, we look at welfare as strictly a temporal topic, but these […]
This is a General Conference Odyssey post of the Welfare session of April 1982. Back in 1982, welfare concerns were employment, economy and maintaining your property. Today, our emphasis has shifted somewhat. While trying to physically survive on this planet, we can find valuable welfare support at lds.org. As we begin this new year of […]
This is a General Conference Odyssey post for the Welfare session of April 1980. When Joseph Smith organized the women into what would become the Relief Society, he laid out the objective: “That the Society of Sisters might provoke the brethren to good works in looking to the wants of the poor—searching after objects of […]
This week, General Conference Odyssey covers the Welfare session of the October 1978 conference. Because I am always interested in Relief Society, I am most interested in Sis. Smith’s talk. Using one of her statements, I modify it only a little: “[Relief Society] affects every facet of our lives—our feeling of personal well-being, our approach […]
This is a page in the history of (at the time) the only Farmington, Utah Relief Society during the First World War and Second World War. I am fascinated how busy these women were serving and working and getting together to make great things happen. “1943 was surely a challenge, because World War One […]
Brigham Young asked Emmeline Wells to organize a wheat storage program. Apparently, it wasn’t easy to get the women out to glean the fields. The women were heard to say, “I will rather give a bushel of wheat than go out to glean.” It was such a problem that women, who refused to do their […]
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