How Well Do You Know The Relief Society?
Give this quiz to the sisters at the beginning of the party. Points are given for every correct answer, and whoever gets the highest amount of points takes home a prize! Click here for a print-ready handout
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| 1. Who belongs to the Relief Society? | Women eighteen years of age and all women who are married | ||
| 2. What is the Relief Society motto? | Charity Never Faileth | ||
| 3. What is the Relief Society emblem? | The Sego Lily / Wheat Sheaf | ||
| 4. What does the emblem represent? | The sego lily was selected because of its usefulness in sustaining life in early pioneer settlements. It is an appropriate symbol of purity, beauty, patient waiting through winter and darkness, and storing of strength for time of blossoming. The wheat sheaf has been used as an emblem along with the sego lily, symbolizing the storing of grain against time of need. | ||
| 5. What are the Relief Society colors? | Gold and blue | ||
| 6. How did the Relief Society get started? | A. Men working on the temple needed shirts
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| 7. Which temple was being built at the start of the Relief Society? | The Nauvoo temple. | ||
| 8. What date was the Relief Society organized? | Thursday, March 17, 1842 | ||
| 9. Who was present at the first Relief Society meeting? (Points for any correct answer) | John Taylor
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| 10. What was the first name of the Relief Society? | The Female Relief Society of Nauvoo | ||
| 11.Who was the first general president of the Relief Society? | Emma Smith
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| 12. Who is the current general president of the Relief Society? | Mary Ellen W. Smoot | ||