Day 288

• Principle: Joy comes by keeping the covenants you have made with God.

• Book of Mormon Reading: 3 Nephi 6:19 - 6:30

  • “To be humble is to recognize gratefully our dependence on the Lord—to understand that we have constant need for His support” (“Humility,” Gospel Topics, topics.lds.org).

  • How are joy and humility related? 

  • How can you maintain humility through prosperity?

• Read about Emma Hale Smith and her calling as the first Relief Society President.  Pay special attention to the section titled "Her Heart."

  • https://www.lds.org/callings/relief-society/relief-society-presidents/emma-hale-smith?lang=eng

• Study also

  • Doctrine and Covenants 25

  • Valeen Tippetts Avery and Linda King Newell, “The Elect Lady: Emma Hale Smith,” Ensign, Sept. 1979, 65–67.

• How does Emma demonstrate the virtues of covenant keeping?  What do you see in Section 25 that shows her effort to follow God?

• Additional Study:

  • Gordon B. Hinckley, “If Thou Art Faithful,” Ensign, Nov. 1984, 89–92.

  • Come, Rejoice, Hymns No. 9

  • I Am Glad for Many Things, Children's Songbook No. 151