Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Meetings for the Atherton Ward are held at 6500 E. Atherton St., Long Beach. Sacrament service is held every Sunday at 9 a.m., followed in the second hour by Sunday School on the first and third Sundays, and Relief Society and Elders Quorum on the second and fourth Sundays. Primary classes for children are held every Sunday during the second hour. Members who are unable to attend Sacrament services in person can request a link from Bishop Mike Gravley at 562-212-8641.

The reading source for this year is The Book of Mormon. Personal reading should be those chapters in 2 Nephi not covered in this study. The study for the week of Feb. 19-25 covers 2 Nephi 6-10.

The “Come Follow Me” lesson manual says, “It had been at least 40 years since Lehis family left Jerusalem. They were in a strange new land a world away from Jerusalem. Lehi had died, and his family had already started what would become a centuries-long contention between the Nephites, ‘who believed in the warnings and the revelations of God’ and the Laminates, who did not.”