Doctrine and Covenants 124 – A House unto My Name

A special section about Relief Society is included at the end of this post. The organization of the Relief Society is briefly covered in the Voices of the Restoration included at the end of this week’s CFM lesson.

Links to free resources for children, youth, and adults to enhance the Come, Follow Me reading of Doctrine and Covenants 124. Choose one thing a day to do with your children or choose a couple to do for family home evening. All links are to church websites or websites approved for further gospel study.

Everyone

Article – Gospel Basics: Temple Work – Temples are the house of the Lord. We can receive ordinances and make covenants with Him in temples. We can also perform ordinances in the temple for our ancestors.

Saints, Volume 1 – A Beautiful Place – Narrative history of events surrounding the revelations

Saints, Volume 1 – We Will Prove Them – Narrative history of events surrounding the revelations

Video – Inviting Others to “Come and Stay” – When people feel welcome at church, they’ll naturally want to stay. This video for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints shows normal and natural ways to help visitors feel at home when they come to church for the first time. (1:38 minutes)

Video – Pure and Simple Faith – The testimony of a young woman is strengthened as she recognizes the Lord’s hand in providing for her family. Goes along with the Primary Manual topic of ‘The Lord is Pleased When I am Faithful.’ (5:30 minutes)

Video – Strive – It is time to give everything we have to becoming the people God hopes we will choose to become. Join the worldwide movement to strive for the best by developing your talents, loving others, seeking education, and serving the Lord. Goes along with the Primary Manual topic of ‘The Lord is Pleased When I am Faithful.’ (3:05 minutes)

Children

Activity – Jesus Command His People to Build Temples – Coloring and drawing page

Activity – Temple Cutout – Assemble this model of the Hong Kong China Temple

Activity – For Doctrine and Covenants 124: Show a picture of a temple near you and talk about why the temple is special. Help your little ones say, “I love the temple.” From Scripture Time Fun for Little Ones.

Activity – For Doctrine and Covenants 124 Sing “Have I Done Any Good?” (Hymns, no. 223). Jesus is happy when we try to do good (see Doctrine and Covenants 124:15–21). Cut out paper hearts and draw yourself doing a good thing on each one. Each day this week, pick a heart and do what the drawing shows. From Scripture Time Fun.

Activity/Article – Getting a Temple Recommend – A list of the temple recommend questions that you can talk with your parents about.

Activity/Article – The City of Joseph – An illustrated retelling of the building of Nauvoo and the healing of sick people who lived there. Use these scripture figures to have your child tell the story back to you.

Article – Loving the Temple – Henry B. Eyring teaches how we can love temples.

Article – My First Temple Trip – Follow Elena as she goes to the temple for the first time.

Article – A Holy Place – from an interview with Bonnie H. Cordon.

Article – Pioneers in Every Land: Margaret Cummings, Faithful Saint from Australia – Read about Margaret Cummings and her family and the miracles that occurred as they tried to go to the temple.

Article – Ready for the Temple – Ajan gets ready to go to the temple.

Article – A Temple Birthday – What does Lydia want to do for her birthday? Go to the temple!

Audio – The Saints in Nauvoo – A Primary teacher and children learn about the Saints in Nauvoo and the first endowments. The Saints began building a temple in Nauvoo. They learned of the ordinances that can be done in the temple, including baptisms for the dead and endowments.

Video – The Saints in Nauvoo – Doctrine and Covenant Scripture Readers

Video – Saints Learn about Baptism for the Dead – Scripture Stories for Young Readers

Video – The Relief Society – Scripture Stories for Young Readers

Video – Jane Manning Travels to Nauvoo – Scripture Stories for Young Readers

Youth

Article – Preparing for Your Endowment – Young adults share their experiences of how they prepared for and received their endowment in the temple.

Article – Of Patriarchal Blessings and Covenants – Through our covenant connection with Christ, we can experience amazing joy and happiness and also have access to His strengthening power, comfort, and peace when difficulties and disappointments arise.

Article – Patriarchal Blessings – Our testimonies can be strengthened and fortified and our lives given greater purpose every time we read and reread our patriarchal blessings.

Video – Leave the Party – John’s life may have been very different had he not had the courage to leave a party one evening in Japan. (6:26 minutes) Goes along with the Sunday School manual topic ‘The Lord Delights in Integrity.’

Youth & Adults

Article – Introducing the Temple to Our Friends – I felt immense joy when two of my friends attended the temple open house with me.

Article – 9 Ways to Make a Powerful Difference: Creating a Feeling of Belonging at Church – (Doctrine and Covenants 124:22-24, 60-61) We all play a part in making church a welcoming place.

Article – What Does it Mean to Have Integrity? – Insights into the Doctrine and Covenants

Article – Organizing the Church in Nauvoo – Revelations in Context

Article – Adjustments to Priesthood Organization – Church History Topics

Article – Patriarchal Blessings – Church History Topics

Video – Being Built Unto Jesus Christ – Scripture Central (4:06 minutes)

Video – Our Church Inclusive? or Exclusive? – Scripture Central (6:48 minutes)

Adults

Article – What the Temple Means to Me – Having a current temple recommend helps to ensure that my enthusiasm for living the gospel of Jesus Christ remains current.

Article – Temple Work Blesses Lives, Living and Dead – In 2018, I made a goal to receive a temple recommend. One year later, my fiancée and I were sealed in the temple for all eternity.

Article – Ministering Through Creating Belonging – (Doctrine and Covenants 124:22-24, 60-61) Seven things ministering sisters and brothers can do to help create a place of belonging for others.

Article – Understanding and Including Our LGBT Brothers and Sisters – (Doctrine and Covenants 124:22-24, 60-61) Three ways we can all help unify our wards and communities.

Article – A Glorious Doctrine – May we all feel the excitement that Vilate Kimball felt when she learned she could be baptized for her ancestors.

Article – Section 124, A Solemn Proclamation: The Priesthood Order Is Established – Doctrine and Covenants Institute Student Manual

Article – Chapter 48: Doctrine and Covenants 124 – Doctrine and Covenants Institute Student Manual

Article – The Nauvoo Temple, 1841 – BYU Religious Studies Center

Article – Thoughts on Reclaiming the History of Relief Society – BYU Religious Studies Center

Podcast – Saints, Volume 1: Build Up a City – The Saints move to Commerce, Illinois. Sickness envelops the settlers. Joseph Smith heals Elijah Fordham. Wilford Woodruff preaches in England and finds remarkable success among the ‚United Brethren. Joseph travels to Washington, D.C. seeking restitution from President Martin Van Buren for the losses in Missouri. Ph.D Historian, Jenny Reeder gives her insights to these events.

Podcast – A Beautiful Place – In Nauvoo, Joseph Smith speaks at the funeral of Seymour Brunson and introduces proxy baptism for the dead. The Nauvoo Temple is under construction and for the first time in this dispensation baptisms for the dead, the endowment, and sealings are performed. Matt McBride, Digital Content Manager for the Church History Department brings his understanding to these monumental events.

Podcast – The Nauvoo Temple: A Joseph Smith Papers Podcast – The Nauvoo Temple: A Joseph Smith Papers Podcast is an eight-part miniseries from the Joseph Smith Papers Project. The podcast explores the history and legacy of the temple that Latter-day Saints constructed in Nauvoo, Illinois in the 1840s. Series host Spencer McBride, PhD, interviews historians in a documentary-style podcast about this important building in Latter-day Saint history. The episodes consider what the Nauvoo temple meant to the men and women who constructed it, and the role in played in their religious devotion and worship.

Video – Act in Doctrine: D&C 124 – Scripture Central (33:09 minutes)

Video – Hard Questions in Church History: Joseph Seeks Federal Help – Church History Matters (46:26 minutes)

Video – Discussion on the Doctrine and Covenants: 124 – The City of Nauvoo – Members of BYU’s religion faculty discuss Doctrine & Covenants section 124 and provide valuable insight into the history, construction, and people of the City of Nauvoo.

Relief Society

Video – The Nauvoo Female Relief Society – In 1842, Margaret Cook and Sarah Kimball’s effort to help build the temple led to the restoration of a vital organization in the Church. Learn how the Nauvoo Relief Society left a legacy for us today. Church History Library (7:19 minutes)

Video – Foundations of the Women’s Relief Society – Discusses the history of the Relief Society and its evolution from a sewing society to provide clothing for men laboring on the temple to a multifaceted society founded on the principle of charity. (28:31 minutes)

Video – The Roles of Relief Society in Nauvoo – Associate editor Stephanie Steed explores how the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo was envisioned to care for the needy and to be a guardian of moral virtue in Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1842. (2:24 minutes)

Video – Free Masonry and Relief Society in Nauvoo – Historians Christian Heimburger and Alex D. Smith review the history of Freemasonry and the Female Relief Society in Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1842. (5:16 minutes)

Article – Relief Society: A Restoration of an Ancient Pattern – first chapter in Daughters in My Kingdom

Article – “Something Better”: The Female Relief Society of Nauvoo  – Learn more about the organization of the Relief Society in March 1842. How has the Relief Society organization helped you and your family?

Article – Nauvoo Relief Society Minute Book – Learn about the Minute book that was kept by Eliza R. Snow recording the first meetings of the Relief Society in Nauvoo.

Article – We are Going to Do Something Extraordinary – Collection of speeches given by Emma Smith in the book At the Pulpit: 185 Years of Discourses by Latter-day Saint Women found in the Gospel Library App.