David Journal

Tag: Relief Society

  • Charity Never Faileth

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    Speaking to the sisters, the Prophet Joseph said: “Don’t be limited in your views with regard to your neighbors’ virtues. … You must enlarge your souls toward others if you [would] do like Jesus. … As you increase in innocence and virtue, as you increase in goodness, let your hearts expand—let them be enlarged towards…

  • What I Hope My Granddaughters (and Grandsons) Will Understand about Relief Society

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    I hope my granddaughters will understand that Relief Society today is organized after a pattern of discipleship that existed in the ancient Church. What is the pattern? It seems to be the pattern of individual effort based on faith in Christ and guided by personal revelation and priesthood direction. Rather than being selected by popular…

  • Charity Never Faileth

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    Tonight I’d like to share with you a few thoughts concerning how we view each other. Are we looking through a window which needs cleaning? Are we making judgments when we don’t have all the facts? What do we see when we look at others? What judgments do we make about them? President Monson is…

  • And of Some Have Compassion, Making a Difference

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    Compassion means to feel love and mercy toward another person. It means to have sympathy and desire to relieve the suffering of others. It means to show kindness and tenderness toward another. A teacher in the Aaronic Priesthood is charged with the responsibility “to watch over the church always, and [to] be with and strengthen…

  • Steadfast and Immovable

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    Before then, I knew God existed and Jesus Christ was the Savior of the world. I believed in Them and loved Them, but I had never felt Their love and care for me, individually, until that day as I rejoiced in my opportunity to make baptismal covenants. We demonstrate our acceptance of Jesus Christ as…

  • Daughters in My Kingdom: The History and Work of Relief Society

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    Prevailing myths imply that we are of lower importance than men, that we are generally sweet but uninformed, and that no matter what we do, we will never be enough to be accepted by our Heavenly Father. As the Apostle Peter said, there are “false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies,…

  • The Enduring Legacy of Relief Society

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    The part of the foundation they laid for you which seems to me most important and persistent is that charity is at the heart of the society and is to come into the heart, to be part of the very nature, of every member. . . Charity is born of faith in the Lord Jesus…

  • Relief Society: A Sacred Work

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    We operate in the manner of the priesthood – which means that we seek, receive, and act on revelation; make decisions in councils; and concern ourselves with caring for individuals one by one. President Boyd K. Packer has taught that “the Relief Society has very broad responsibilities. . . . Attendance at the Sunday meeting…

  • Mind the Gap

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    I want to mention a few gaps I see either in my own life or in the lives of others. The ones I will address tonight are the following: First, the gap between believing you are a daughter of God and knowing in your heart and soul that you are a precious, beloved daughter of…

  • Every Woman Needs Relief Society

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    The good women of the world are embracing the gospel of Jesus Christ in large numbers across the nations. This could mean that the men of the church must be prepared to protect and care for a body of women much larger in number than they are. the whole intent of the gospel plan is…