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Regarding the 2011 version, Young Women general president Elaine S. Dalton said, "The standards have not changed, but times have changed.... For the Strength of Youth has been revised to address the issues youth face today — to teach them the doctrine behind the standards and the promised blessings of obedience."
The Young Women (often referred to as Young Women's or Young Woman's) is a youth organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). The purpose of the Young Women organization is to help each young woman "be worthy to make and keep sacred covenants and receive the ordinances of the temple." [2]
Each day follows a schedule of devotionals, gospel study, session director morningsides, journal time, and personal scripture study. There are little if any changes between each of the nations who hold sessions of EFY, mostly in the schedule of the Overnight and Stay-at-Home program. [21] [22] Schedule changes have been made over the years.
In 2019, church leadership authorized LDS women to serve as witnesses for baptisms, a ceremonial role previously reserved for male priesthood holders. [218] Each active church member is expected to receive a calling, or position of assigned responsibility within the church. Church members are expected to neither ask for specific callings, nor ...
The Young Woman's Journal was founded in 1889 by Susa Young Gates, a volunteer worker within the YLMIA, with its first issue dated October of that year. [1] [2] Anstis Elmina Shepard Taylor, the YLMIA general president at the time, oversaw the first publication of the journal. [2]
Young Woman's Journal: 1897–1929 monthly LDS young women YLMIA: Salt Lake City, Utah Absorbed into Improvement Era. Available online at Brigham Young University: Improvement Era: 1897–1970 monthly magazine Official LDS Church magazine LDS Church Salt Lake City, Utah Replaced The Contributor. Replaced by the New Era and the Ensign.
It typically consists of five general sessions. From April 2018 to April 2021, a session for holders of the priesthood was held during the April conference, with a General Women's Session (for females 11 years and older) [1] held during October's conference. The Saturday evening session was changed to a general session in October 2021.
Beginning in April 2021, Camille N. Johnson was the Primary General President, with Susan H. Porter as First Counselor and Amy Wright as Second Counselor. [ 7 ] In the church's April 2022 general conference , it was announced that Johnson would become the new Relief Society General President on August 1, 2022.