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 General Conference will be held April 6-7. The sessions will be at 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday and 5 p.m. on Saturday. There will be no meetings at the ward building on that Sunday.
The reading source for this year is The Book of Mormon. Personal reading should be those chapters in 2 Nephi not covered in the study. This week of March 18-24 covers 2 Nephi 31-33.
The “Come Follow Me” lesson manual says, “Among Nephi’s last recorded words, we find this declaration: ‘The Lord commanded me, and I must obey’ (2 Nephi 33:15). He tried to understand the will of God and courageously obeyed it—whether that meant risking his life to get the brass plates from Laban, building a boat and crossing the sea, or faithfully teaching the doctrine of Christ with plainness and power. Nephi could speak persuasively of the need to ‘press forward with a steadfastness in Christ,’ of following the ‘strait and narrow path which leads to eternal life’ (2 Nephi 31:20, 18), because that is the path he followed.”
