Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of Follow Him.

Today we're doing one of our voices of the restoration with one of our voices of the continuing

restoration, Dr. Garrett Dirkmont.

Our topic today for these voices is the Relief Society.

Hank, what are you looking forward to today talking about the Relief Society? I'm excited that we're doing this, one, because there isn't

a revelation in the Doctrine Covenants that covers this really. I think it's helpful that the

church decided to put this in the manual. I'm excited for Garrett to walk us through how this came about and maybe we can talk about

where it is today.

It's the longest running women's organization in the world, I believe.

Well, I apologize for the fact that I'm the one talking about it merely because I'm the guest for the voices of the

restoration, no doubt could find someone who's better at it than me. I'm happy to do my part.

Yeah.

There's a few voices that we talk about. We talk about Emma Smith. We talk about Eliza Arsnow.

We talk about Sarah Granger, Kimball. It'll be fun to look at how

all of these got together. I noticed this morning, Hank, that the initials for Eliza R. Snow are the

same as Early Relief Society, huh? Is there a connection? Okay. So, yeah. Eliza Arsnow, she was a smart woman and had such a great

way of writing. I believe, and Garrett can correct me here, I believe Joseph Smith said, this isn't

just about helping the poor. This is about saving souls. It's much bigger than, I mean,

the release side, he does do amazing, wonderful things for the

poor and to give relief. But I think Joseph, there's something bigger in mind with exaltation.

From the very beginning, it has this dual purpose of, sure, there's going to be a lot of temporal

help that you're providing. But that's not the end result of it.

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