Sept. Visiting Teaching help: Nurturing the rising generation

Each month, the Church News publishes a message to complement the Relief Society visiting teaching message found in the Ensign magazine. The article on this page is based on the Sept. 2010 theme, "Our Responsibility to Nurture the Rising Generation." When leaders of the Springville Utah Hobble...

Remembering, recording: 4 women profiled in history lecture

Mormon Life says: Some really inspiring examples of strong faithful women. Highlighting the lives of four Latter-day Saint women from different time periods in Church history, Christine Cox told a gathering at the Church History Library in Salt Lake City that there can be...

Education moments: They rescued me

Mormon Life says: Love this. A testament to the power of Visiting Teaching. My story begins like any other sister in the gospel who is assigned visiting teachers. When I first got the assignment as to who they would be, I thought to myself, "Wow, talk about an age gap." I...

RS / MP Lesson 16: “The Church of Jesus Christ in Former Times”

Lesson 16 We believe in the same organization that existed in the Primitive Church, namely, apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, evangelists, and so forth. (Articles of Faith 6) The question is, what does this claim mean? It doesn’t mean that were we somehow to return to 1st-century Jerusalem...

Visiting Teaching supplementary reading: Temple worthiness

Madelyn Manning of the Orem University 12th Ward, Orem Utah University 1st Stake, determined a year ago that she wanted to go to the temple. "I just had a feeling one night," she said, noting that she wanted to take an active role in family history and temple work. She met with her bishop and...

RS/MP Lesson 15: “The Lord’s Covenant People” (Gospel Principles Manual)

A brief word about changes to this lesson with the newer edition of the manual, then on to more important matters. There is a number of subtle changes in this lesson, but most of them can be summarized under the heading of “getting rid of exclusivist language.” I think that is a good move....

Relief Society Lesson 15: The Lord’s Covenant People (Gospel Principles)

For this lesson, I have made a list of questions (some taken from the lesson itself) to help stimulate thought prior to and potentially generated discussion in Relief Society. I hope the teachers find this useful and will share further ideas below as this is not a comprehensive outline as is. ...

RS/MP Lesson 14: “Priesthood Organization” (Gospel Principles Manual)

This lesson is particularly long and it would be difficult to adequately address all aspects of this lesson in the short time that is usually available for a priesthood or relief society lesson. While the last lesson deals with what the priesthood is, this contains much of the nuts and bolts of...

Gospel Principles Lesson 15: The Lord's Covenant People

In times of distress, let your covenants be paramount and let your obedience be exact. May I extend a warm and sincere welcome to Elder Neil L. Andersen to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. He is a worthy and welcome addition. On August 15, 2007, Peru suffered a massive earthquake that...

RS Lesson 13: The Priesthood

This lesson consists of four questions that the manual recommends assigning to small groups and have them answer the questions. That’s a quick way to get the lesson done if someone is running short on time and could be effective. I’ve used these questions as general subjects and listed more...

RS/MP Lesson 13: “The Priesthood” (Gospel Principles Manual)

This lesson provides a transition from discussing the basis of the plan of salvation to how the plan is fulfilled in our lives. We will discuss the priesthood this week and the organization of the priesthood next week. What is the priesthood? “The priesthood is the eternal power and authority...

My ward is going to be translated for this…

Mormon Life says: The way all Young Women should "graduate." This week our Relief Society lesson was combined with the Young Women in the ward. On the table stood three large, framed photographs of our three recently graduated Laurels. Next to those were...

Jesus Christ Bookmark

This month’s message, “Renewing Covenants through the Sacrament,” is centered on our Savior, Jesus Christ. We make & keep sacred covenants and promise to always remember Him. We can remember Jesus by not only thinking of him, but by being like Him. As children we are taught to think of Jesus...

Mothers and Daughters (Mormon Messages for Youth)

Gospel Principles Lesson 12: The Atonement

(Note = Author’s thoughts and words are in italics, while direct quotes from the lesson manual or scriptures are not italicized.) The Atonement The first section of the manual gives a nice introduction to the lesson and its subject. I would start by reading it verbatim. The Atonement Is...