For the month of August the Theme for Relief Society is: To Be Smart and To Learn.
Heavenly Father has given us a wonderful world in which to live, learn, and progress. Our life on earth is a schooling process, during which we are to seek knowledge and understanding of the things of God and the world around us.
“Isn’t it wonderful how many interesting things there are around to be seen, heard, felt, learned and enjoyed! “We have only to open the ‘many windows’ to our soul—to happily employ our eyes and ears and intuition, to use our sense and our senses and our ‘inward vision.’ We can furnish our minds with interesting pictures to look at, inspiring things to hear, happy memories to live with” (Marion D. Hanks, Improvement Era, Oct. 1964, 883).
As members of the Church, we have three important centers of learning: the home, the school, and the Church. Each of these offers opportunities for continued learning. Learning requires constant effort. It is far too easy for us to become mentally lazy when we do not study.
Heavenly Father expects us to use our capacity to learn for building our own lives and for doing good to others. The Savior has commanded us to become perfect, as He and our Father in Heaven are. To become like them, we must learn and grow in the knowledge of the truth.
Learning and growing are so very important. Think of something specific you can do to continue learning. Plan your time so that you can learn something new and worthwhile each day. Plan a way to increase opportunities for learning in your home. Discuss the importance of learning in a family home evening. Help your children prepare a plan for their education.
We as a Relief Society Presidency want you to know that we love you and learn from each of you every day.
With Love,
Jennifer Westwood, Kathryn Jolley, Yvonne Rodabough, and Breann Farlow
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