Changes to Additional Relief Society Meetings- formerly knowns as Home, Family, and Personal Enrichment

At the General RS Meeting in September, Sister Beck announced a few new changes to additional RS meetings. Since then, she has continued to add more information and clarify the changes. The biggest change that you will notice is the name change. Rather than being called "Home, Family, and Personal Enrichment" or shortened to "Enrichment", these meetings will now be referred to, simply as "Relief Society Meeting". So, if it is a service project, it now becomes "Relief Society Service Project" or a dinner is a "Relief Society Dinner". You get the picture. Much more simple!

In addition, ward Relief Societies and ward Relief Society Presidents, in counseling with their bishops, are given the "permission" or "authority" to plan and carryout these meetings as they see fit, according to the needs of their wards. What this means is that you may find much difference between wards. So one ward may have monthly meetings, but you might move or travel to another ward, that only has quarterly meetings. After much prayer and consideration, our presidency has decided to go back to a monthly format. You can look for this change, and others that we have decided upon to begin at the first of the year.

Now, due to these changes, we have decided to extend the date of the "graduation" for RS University. For those of you that have been consistently working on this, we will still recognize you next month, but for those of you that haven't- you still have the opportunity. Watch for our monthly meetings to be more geared around this program.