If you are in another reading schedule with other Scriptures please continue that schedule.
Week 1
Day 1
Read: Preface (Title Page), Introduction, Testimony of Three Witnesses, Testimony of Eight Witnesses, Testimony of the Prophet Joseph Smith
Mark: The quote from Joseph Smith in the Introduction, “I told the brethren…any other book.”
“I would like to urge [everyone] to again read the Book of Mormon…There is nothing we could do of greater importance than to have fortified in our individual lives an unshakable conviction that Jesus is the Christ, the Living Son of the Living God. And, my brothers and sisters, that is the purpose of the coming forth of this remarkable and wonderful book.”
~ President Gordon B. Hinckley
Day 2
Read: Brief Explanation, 1 Nephi 1-2
Mark: 1 Nephi 1:20
“The Lord’s tender mercies are the very personal and individualized blessings, strength, protection, assurances, guidance, loving kindnesses, consolation, support, and spiritual gifts which we receive
from and because of and through the Lord Jesus Christ…The Lord’s tender mercies do not occur randomly or merely by coincidence. Faithfulness, obedience, and humility invite tender mercies into our
lives, and it is often the Lord’s timing that enables us to recognize and treasure these important blessings.”
~ Elder David A. Bednar
How have you experienced the tender mercies of the Lord?
Day 3
Read: 1 Nephi 3-5
Mark: 1 Nephi 3:7
“I have learned not to put question marks but to use exclamation points when calls are issued through inspired channels of priesthood government.”
~ Elder Russell M. Nelson
Why did Laman and Lemuel murmur? Why did Nephi support his father? What determines whether you are a murmurer or a supporter of the Lord’s work and His prophets?
Day 4
Read: 1 Nephi 6-10
Mark: 1 Nephi 10:17-19
“The intensity of our desire to share the gospel is a great indicator of the extent of our personal conversion.”
~ Elder Dallin H. Oaks
What was Nephi’s response when the people in the strange building mocked him and the others who were partaking of the fruit? Why?
Day 5
Read: 1 Nephi 11-12
Mark: 1 Nephi 11:20-23
“You need time to meditate and ponder, to think, to wonder at the great plan of happiness that the Lord has outlined for His children. You need to read the scriptures….I heard President
David O. McKay say to the members of the Twelve on one occasion, ‘Brethren, we do not spend enough time meditating.’”
~ President Gordon B. Hinckley
How often do you take time to ponder, to meditate on things that are important?
Day 6
Read: 1 Nephi 13-14
Mark: 1 Nephi 14:14
“This great American nation the Almighty raised up by the power of his omnipotent hand, that it might be possible in the latter days for the kingdom of God to be established in the earth.”
~ President Joseph F. Smith
Nephi saw that “other books” would come forth through the gentiles. What important things would the “other books” do? What are those “other books”?
Day 7
Read: 1 Nephi 15-16
Mark: 1 Nephi 15:23-24
“If there is any one thing most needed in this time of tumult and frustration, when men and women and youth and young adults are desperately seeking for answers to the problems which afflict mankind, it is an ‘iron rod’ as a safe guide along the straight path on the way to eternal life.”
~ President Harold B. Lee
How can you ‘hold fast’ to the iron rod?
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Book of Mormon Challange!!
Starting Sept 1st.
~ President Marion G. Romney
In February of this year the Stake Relief Society ask that every one read The Book of Mormon. We gave you a schedule to do it in 100 days. We hope that many of you did it. Once again we are challenging you to read The Book of Mormon in 100 days. We would like you to start this on September 1st. What a great present to give yourself for Christmas, finishing The Book of Mormon just before Christmas! We will be posting weekly schedules if you did not get a book that we handed out in February. We will start posting the weekly schedule every Monday starting August 30. Take the challenge!!
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Aug. 2010 Visiting Teaching message:
“Our Responsibility to Be Worthy of Temple Worship,”
Liahona, Aug 2010, 7
Study this material and, as appropriate, discuss it with the sisters you visit. Use the questions to help you strengthen your sisters and to make Relief Society an active part of your own life.
From the Scriptures
Isaiah 2:2–3; D&C 109:22–23; 110:8–10
“The covenants we make with the associated ordinances we receive in the temple become our credentials for admission into God’s presence. These covenants elevate us beyond the limits of our own power and perspective. We make covenants to show our devotion to build up the kingdom. We become covenant people as we are placed under covenant to God. All the promised blessings are ours through our faithfulness to these covenants. …
“What can the women of the Church do to claim the blessings of the temple?
“Through His prophets, the Lord invites those who have not yet received the blessings of the temple to do whatever may be necessary to qualify to receive them. He invites those who have already received these blessings to return as often as possible to enjoy again the experience, to increase their vision and understanding of His eternal plan.
“Let us be worthy to have a current temple recommend. Let us go to the temple to seal our families eternally.
Let us return to the temple as often as our circumstances will permit. Let us give our kindred dead the opportunity to receive the ordinances of exaltation. Let us enjoy the spiritual strength and the revelation we receive as we attend the temple regularly. Let us be faithful and make and keep temple covenants to receive the full blessings of the Atonement.”1
Silvia H. Allred, first counselor in the Relief Society general presidency.
From Our History
President Gordon B. Hinckley (1910–2008) taught that Relief Society grew out of sisters’ desire to worship in temples:
“During the construction of the Kirtland Temple the women were called upon to grind their china into small particles to be mixed with the plaster used on the walls of the temple, which would catch the light of the sun and the moon and reflect that light to beautify the appearance of the building.
“In those times, when there was very little of money but an abundance of faith, the workmen gave of their strength and resources to the construction of the Lord’s house. The women supplied them with food, the best they could prepare. Edward W. Tullidge reported that while the women were sewing the temple veils, Joseph Smith, observing them, said, ‘Well, sisters, you are always on hand. The sisters are always first and foremost in all good works. Mary was first at the resurrection; and the sisters now are the first to work on the inside of the temple.’ …
“Again in Nauvoo, when the temple was under construction, a few women joined together to make shirts for the workmen. It was out of these circumstances that twenty of them gathered on Thursday, 17 March 1842, in the upper room of the Prophet’s store.”2
What Can I Do?
1. What support can I offer to help my sisters prepare for and attend the temple?
2. How can I exemplify the heritage of the early sisters who sacrificed to receive temple blessings.
3. How can I claim the blessings of the temple?
For more information, go to www.reliefsociety.lds.org.
Notes
1. Silvia H. Allred, “Holy Temples, Sacred Covenants,” Liahona and Ensign, Nov. 2008, 113, 114.
2. Gordon B. Hinckley, “Ambitious to Do Good,” Ensign, Mar. 1992, 2.
“Our Responsibility to Be Worthy of Temple Worship,”
Liahona, Aug 2010, 7
Study this material and, as appropriate, discuss it with the sisters you visit. Use the questions to help you strengthen your sisters and to make Relief Society an active part of your own life.
From the Scriptures
Isaiah 2:2–3; D&C 109:22–23; 110:8–10
“The covenants we make with the associated ordinances we receive in the temple become our credentials for admission into God’s presence. These covenants elevate us beyond the limits of our own power and perspective. We make covenants to show our devotion to build up the kingdom. We become covenant people as we are placed under covenant to God. All the promised blessings are ours through our faithfulness to these covenants. …
“What can the women of the Church do to claim the blessings of the temple?
“Through His prophets, the Lord invites those who have not yet received the blessings of the temple to do whatever may be necessary to qualify to receive them. He invites those who have already received these blessings to return as often as possible to enjoy again the experience, to increase their vision and understanding of His eternal plan.
“Let us be worthy to have a current temple recommend. Let us go to the temple to seal our families eternally.
Let us return to the temple as often as our circumstances will permit. Let us give our kindred dead the opportunity to receive the ordinances of exaltation. Let us enjoy the spiritual strength and the revelation we receive as we attend the temple regularly. Let us be faithful and make and keep temple covenants to receive the full blessings of the Atonement.”1
Silvia H. Allred, first counselor in the Relief Society general presidency.
From Our History
President Gordon B. Hinckley (1910–2008) taught that Relief Society grew out of sisters’ desire to worship in temples:
“During the construction of the Kirtland Temple the women were called upon to grind their china into small particles to be mixed with the plaster used on the walls of the temple, which would catch the light of the sun and the moon and reflect that light to beautify the appearance of the building.
“In those times, when there was very little of money but an abundance of faith, the workmen gave of their strength and resources to the construction of the Lord’s house. The women supplied them with food, the best they could prepare. Edward W. Tullidge reported that while the women were sewing the temple veils, Joseph Smith, observing them, said, ‘Well, sisters, you are always on hand. The sisters are always first and foremost in all good works. Mary was first at the resurrection; and the sisters now are the first to work on the inside of the temple.’ …
“Again in Nauvoo, when the temple was under construction, a few women joined together to make shirts for the workmen. It was out of these circumstances that twenty of them gathered on Thursday, 17 March 1842, in the upper room of the Prophet’s store.”2
What Can I Do?
1. What support can I offer to help my sisters prepare for and attend the temple?
2. How can I exemplify the heritage of the early sisters who sacrificed to receive temple blessings.
3. How can I claim the blessings of the temple?
For more information, go to www.reliefsociety.lds.org.
Notes
1. Silvia H. Allred, “Holy Temples, Sacred Covenants,” Liahona and Ensign, Nov. 2008, 113, 114.
2. Gordon B. Hinckley, “Ambitious to Do Good,” Ensign, Mar. 1992, 2.
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