RS Presidents
Who was the first president of the relief society?
Emma Smith
Has anyone on your team ever read any of the Relief Society minutes?
100 points per person
"We are going to do something extraordinary"
Emma Smith
What is the newspaper/magazine the RS produced?
Woman's Exponent and The Relief Society Magazine. "The Woman’s Exponent was created for women by women to 'give utterance to their feelings, their faith, their devotion to the cause of truth, and their unwavering hope in the future.'”
Who is Zion's Poetess?
Eliza R Snow "By seeking to perform every duty you will find that your capacity will increase, and you will be astonished at what you can accomplish"
Who is the current president of the Relief Society?
Camille Johnson
What date was the RS organized?
March 17, 1842
"First observe, then serve"
Linda K Burton
Which product did the RS have a massive effort to grow and store from 1876-1978 and is seen on the RS seal?
Wheat! They loaned it to the poor and shared it in times of drought. They sent wheat to San Francisco after an earthquake and to China during a famine. They sold some to the U.S. government during World War I (200,000 bushels).
Who, like Moses, parted a body of water to lead the saints West across the Erie Canal?
Lucy Mack Smith " And if I could make my voice to sound as loud as the trumpet of Michael the Archangel, I would declare the truth from land to land and from sea to sea, and it would echo from isle to isle until not one should remain of the whole family of man but that was left without excuse.And now, brethren and sisters, if you will, all of you, raise your desires to heaven that the ice may give way before us and we be set at liberty to go on our way, as sure as the Lord lives it shall be done."
Name a Relief Society President who was at the first meeting of the Relief Society besides Emma Smith
Eliza R Snow, Bathsheba Smith
What is the original name of the Relief Society?
The Female Relief Society of Nauvoo
"I believe in women, especially thinking women"
Emmeline B Wells
Name something the Relief Society actively produced or built
Silk, Deseret Hospital, RS Halls, wheat, temple clothes
This woman prayed and was given revelation on how to make a new hip for her son after a gun shot wound in Haun's Mill
Amanda Barnes Smith. “I [was] there, all that long, dreadful night, with my dead and my wounded, and none but God as our physician and help...And then I was directed as by a voice speaking to me.”
Name 5 past presidents that haven't been mentioned yet in the game
Emma Smith, Eliza Snow, Zina Young, Bathsheba Smith, Emmeline Wells, Clarissa Williams, Louise Robison, Amy Lyman, Belle Spafford, Barbara Smith, Barbara Winder, Elaine Jack, Mary Smoot, Bonnie Parkin, Julie Beck, Linda Burton, Jean Bingham, Camille Johnson
When did RS automatically enroll all women and stop requiring members to pay dues?
1971
“I will go forward. I will smile at the rage of the tempest, and ride fearlessly and triumphantly across the boisterous ocean of circumstance … and the ‘testimony of Jesus’ will light up a lamp that will guide my vision through the portals of immortality.”
Eliza R Snow
The fight for this idea/right drove Utah women to be activists and fight for suffrage
the freedom to practice polygamy. They were the second place in the US to have women's suffrage (1870) as a territory. The right was rescinded, and regained again when Utah became a state in 1896
Who is the famous LDS artist who painted 42 murals of the Book of Mormon and the murals in the Manti Temple? Her art is prominent in churches and temples and includes Queen Esther, Christ in a Red Robe, and many pioneer scenes.
Minerva Teichert "I promised the Lord if I’d finished my work and he’d give me some more I’d gladly do it. With this covenant in my heart I began to live"
Who was the Relief Society President the longest?
Belle Spafford 1945-1974 (29 years)
The last meeting of the initial Relief Society was March 16, 1844. In what decade was the Relief Society reestablished?
1867
"The ability to qualify for, receive, and act on personal revelation is the single most important skill that can be acquired in this life"
Julie Beck
Medical education--"They came back to Utah as doctors and taught classes in midwifery and home nursing."
This women was a physician, established a nursing school, was a leader in the suffrage movement, ran against her husband in the state senate election and won to become the first female state senator in the US in 1896
Martha “Mattie” Hughes Cannon "If [your] husband has four wives, [you have] three weeks of freedom every month.”