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Relief Society Trivia
by: Rachel Jones
How Well Do You Know Your Relief
Society?
1. Who belongs to the Relief Society?
2. What is the Relief Society Motto?
3. What is the Relief Society emblem? What does the emblem represent?
4. What are the Relief Society colors?
5. How did the Relief Society get started?
a. Men working on the temple needed shirts?
b. The women wanted to help the needy Saints.
c. The women wanted to feed the hungry.
6. What temple was being built when the Relief Society was organized?
7. What date was the Relief Society organized?
8. Who was present at the first Relief Society meeting?
9. What was the original name of the Relief Society?
10. Who was the first general president of the Relief Society?
11. Who was asked to write the constitution that would be presented to the
Prophet Joseph Smith?
12. Who is the current general president of the Relief Society?
How Well Do You Know Your Relief Society Answers
1. Women eighteen years of age and all women who are married.
2. Charity Never Faileth
3. The Sego Lily/ Wheat Sheaf (The sego lily was selected because of it’s
usefulness in sustaining life along pioneer settlements. It is an appropriate
symbol of purity, beauty, patience through winter and darkness, and storing of
strength for the time of blossoming. The wheat sheaf has been used as an emblem
along with the sego lily, symbolizing storing of grain against time of need.
4. Gold and blue.
5. a. Men working on the temple needed shirts.
6. The Nauvoo temple.
7. Thursday, March 17, 1842
8. (points for any correct answer) John Taylor, Elizabeth Whitney, Willard
Richards, Emma Smith, Joseph Smith, Sarah Cleveland, Eliza R. Snow, Elvira
Coles, Sarah Kimball and Margaret Cook.
9. The Female Relief Society of Nauvoo
10. Emma Smith
11. Eliza R. Snow
12. Mary Ellen Smoot
FUN FACT:
Sarah M. Kimball and her seamstress, Margret Cook, were the sister's who offered
to supply the materials and sew the shirts. When they asked other sister's to
help, their decided their efforts would be more fruitful if they formed a ladies
society. The Prophet commented that the constitution and bylaws they submitted
to him were the best he had ever seen. However he said,
"This is not what the
Sisters want, there is something better for them." They met with the brethren
the following week to organize a society patterned after the organization of the
priesthood. The Prophet said the object of the society was to help "in looking
to the wants of the poor-searching after objects of charity and in administering
to their wants."
He later told the women that they were not only to relieve the poor, but to save
their souls.
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