Lucy Mack and Emma Smith helped shape Church history.

Is your country celebrating Mother’s Day this month? We can all learn from the examples of these two powerful mothers:

Lucy Mack Smith

• Grew up studying the Bible and searching for truth.
• Was mother to 11 children‚ including Joseph Smith Jr.
• Used the Bible to teach her children to read.
• Prayed with her children.
• Testified of the Book of Mormon and her son’s prophetic role.
• Created a personal history that helps us better understand the early Church.

Emma Hale Smith

• Was devoted to God, even as a child.
• Went to school and eventually taught classes herself.
• Gave up a comfortable lifestyle to marry Joseph Smith Jr.
• Was mother to 11 children, including 6 who died young and 2 she adopted.
• Acted as scribe as Joseph translated the gold plates.
• Compiled the first Church hymnbook (see Doctrine and Covenants 25).
• Was first president of the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo.

Really, both of these lists could go on and on! You can read more about Lucy Mack here, and more about Emma here. We’re so grateful for the way these two—and countless other—faithful mothers have blessed the world.