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On March 17, 1842, twenty women assembled in the upstairs room of Joseph Smith's red brick store in Nauvoo, Illinois, were organized as the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo. More than a century and a half later that organization, now known as the Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has more than four million members in 165 countries and territories, uniting women all over the world.
Women of the Covenant traces
...This collection of primary sources opens a window into the fascinating and largely unknown early history of the women's Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Published in 2016, the volume provides an authoritative history of the first fifty years of the Relief Society through transcripts of seventy-eight key documents, accompanied by introductions, annotation, and hundreds of biographical sketches.This collection of
...“When I was getting ready for bed one night . . . a light dropped down on the floor before me. . . . It was the same year . . . that the Lord brought the glad news of salvation to Joseph Smith. . . . I prayed so loud that my husband was afraid [the neighbors] would all hear me.”
Sarah Studevant Leavitt's account is only one of twenty-five personal stories from Mormon women who valiantly served the Lord during the early days
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