- Alma 6:6…Children of God are commanded to gather oft, fasting and praying in behalf of those that knew not God.
- Mosiah 18: 25…Besides Sunday, members should gather as often as in their power
- Alma 6: 6…Gather oft to strengthen self
- Mosiah 2: 5…Attend M. with the family
- 3 Nephi 18: 22-23, 32…Don’t throw anyone out of meetings
- 3 Nephi 23: 4…Take notes in Meetings
- 4 Nephi 1: 12…Meet often to pray and listen to the word of God
- Moroni 6: 5-6…Meet to pray, fast, help others, & and partake of the sacrament
- Moroni 6: 9…Meetings are directed by the Spirit
- 2 Nephi 32: 9…Pray before attending meetings so that it benefits your soul
- Mosiah 2: 5…In meetings we should sit together as a family
- Mosiah 2: 6…We should see General Conference on T.V.
- Mosiah 2: 9…To prepare oneself for a meeting, one should (1) Hearken unto the speaker (2) Open ears so that you can hear (3) Open hearts so that you can understand (4) Open your minds so that the mysteries of God may be unfolded to your view
- Mosiah 9: 17…Mosiah 10: 10…Leave to battles, meetings, jobs, etc. with the strength of the Lord
- Mosiah 6: 3…Return from meetings together as a family
- …Although Nephi was speaking to his brethren of Holy Things, he received a prompting/ feeling to end the conversation. President Farnsworth (Quito Ecuador Mission President from 1993 to 1996) used to teach us that things should end when the Spirit is strong.
- D&C 43:8-9… “And now, behold, I give unto you a commandment, that when ye are assembled together ye shall instruct and edify each other, that ye may know how to act and direct my church, how to act upon the points of my law and commandments, which I have given. And thus ye shall become instructed in the law of my church, and be sanctified by that which ye have received, and ye shall bind yourselves to act in all holiness before me” When in meetings, or teaching we are to instruct and edify each other so we know how to act
- “Most of what we know and love about the Savior happened on the highways and byways, not in a building in meetings.” Elder Jefferey R Holland, 2011 Yucaipa California Stake Conference.
- Jacob 2:9… Wherefore, it burdeneth my soul that I should be constrained, because of the strict commandment which I have received from God, to admonish you according to your crimes, to enlarge the wounds of those who are already wounded, instead of consoling and healing their wounds; and those who have not been wounded, instead of feasting upon the pleasing word of God have daggers placed to pierce their souls and wound their delicate minds.
- Doctrine and Covenants 43:8… And now, behold, I give unto you a commandment, that when ye are assembled together ye shall instruct and edify each other, that ye may know how to act and direct my church, how to act upon the points of my law and commandments, which I have given.