Come, Follow Me
January Week 2: How Can I Develop Charity?

“January Week 2: How Can I Develop Charity?” Come, Follow Me: For Young Women and Relief Society (2015), 6–7

“January Week 2,” For Young Women and Relief Society, 6–7

Charity

January Week 2 | Young Women and Relief Society

How Can I Develop Charity?

Prepare to teach by prayerfully studying, seeking inspiration from the Holy Ghost, and recording impressions about how to help sisters develop charity.

Share Experiences

The Relief Society president or Young Women class president (or one of their counselors) asks questions like the following to help sisters share experiences:

  • What impressed us from last Sunday’s discussion? What did we do because of those thoughts and feelings?

  • What insights about charity could we share from our personal or family study?

Learn Together

The teacher uses one of the activities below or a related idea from Come, Follow Me for individuals and families to help sisters understand how they can develop charity. In Relief Society, the president or a counselor leads the discussion. In Young Women, the Young Women president, a counselor, an adviser, or occasionally a young woman leads.

What is charity? Ask the sisters to read Moroni 7:46–48 looking for a definition of charity. What additional things do we learn about charity in 1 Corinthians 13 or President Thomas S. Monson’s talk “Charity Never Faileth” (Ensign or Liahona, Nov. 2010, 122–25)? As we share what we learn, what inspires us?

What can we do to develop greater charity? To help the sisters learn about developing charity, during the week invite sisters to review “How Can I Develop Charity?” in Come, Follow Me for individuals and families (page 32) and come to class prepared to share their insights. What have we done individually to develop charity?

How can charity help us become united as sisters? Ask the sisters to share examples of close sisters in a family and discuss why their bond is strong. How can we be more united as sisters in the gospel? As a group, review counsel from Sister Bonnie L. Oscarson’s talk “Sisterhood: Oh, How We Need Each Other” (Ensign or Liahona, May 2014, 119–21) or sing and discuss “As Sisters in Zion” (Hymns, no. 309).

Plan to Act

The Relief Society president or Young Women class president (or one of their counselors) concludes the meeting by counseling with sisters about how they can act on what they are learning:

  • Invite the sisters to ponder the following question and write down their goals: What is one thing I can do to increase my love for someone in my family or neighborhood?

  • How can we build sisterhood with all the young women and Relief Society sisters in our ward?

How Do I Feel Prompted to Teach This Topic?