LDS Relief Society

With this 2011 years focus on the organization of the Relief Society, I thought I would try to find some things that would be helpful.  At LDS.org, you can go to the Relief Society page for information and also research past conference talks and such as well.

I discovered a really good website that has allot of detail that I thought you might like to go to find out more about the Relief Society's early beginnings.  You can go to this link and it is a great resource for you:   http://www.ldswomenofgod.com/blog/?p=77

It was fun for me to go through the above site, and see the history of Visiting Teaching.  You can read about if for yourself here:  http://www.ldswomenofgod.com/blog/?p=2292


The document to the Left is of the First meeting of the organization of the Relief Sociey which was called "The Temple Relief Society of Nauvoo."  Click on the image and you can see all who were at this meeting.  It is a really neat document!   This is the link to that document:  http://www.ldswomenofgod.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/ms3424_29.jpg

At http://www.ldswomenofgod.com/blog/?p=1013 are the minutes taken to the very first Relief Society meeting.  On the Left column, under the document, are links to the 1st - 18th meetings, as well as a few other things that are very interesting reading.

Hopefully this site and others will help you with your year for Relief Society history as well as for sharing the messages through Visiting teaching. 

If any of you have planned events for this coming year and have scripts for plays, special music, or anything else that you could share that would enrich everyone around the world's year of learning the history of Relief Society, I urge you to send it to me.  I will prepare special posts with those ideas included so that everyone can benefit and share.  After all.... isn't that what Relief Society is all about?  Please email your tips, handouts and ideas to me at ktgauger@gmail.  I will make sure that you get the credit as my blog is only a forum for helps for others. 

Best regards,
Katie G.