The purpose for additional Relief Society meetings is to give sisters opportunities to learn and apply principles and skills that will help them increase faith and personal righteousness, strengthen families and homes, and seek out and help those in need.

In planning additional Relief Society meetings, consider using the following topic list as priorities:

Compassionate service: care of the sick, elderly, homebound, disabled, and poor and needy; support for new mothers and babies; humanitarian and community aid; help with funerals.

Education and literacy: scripture study and gospel learning, teaching reading, tutoring children and youth, choosing children’s literature, using computers and other technology, developing cultural awareness.

Finances: budgeting, debt relief, employment qualifications.

Health: physical health, fitness, addiction prevention and recovery, social and emotional health, illness prevention.

Homemaking: learning and improving skills for the care of the home and family, such as cleaning and organizing, home beautification, cooking, sewing, gardening, food production and preservation, home storage, and emergency preparedness.

Marriage and family: preparing for marriage and family, strengthening marriages, improving parenting, early childhood education, preparing youth for future responsibilities, encouraging and preparing for family home evening, and strengthening extended family relationships.

Sharing the gospel: member missionary efforts, fellowshipping new and less-active members, neighborhood outreach, activation and retention, welcoming new sisters into Relief Society, preparing for full-time missions.

Temple and family history: how to collect and preserve family history information, writing family histories, preparing for the temple, doing temple work.

Taken from Sisters Beck talk:

Sister Beck noted that for the past number of years, Church members have called weekday Relief Society meetings "home, family and personal enrichment." That name will now be discontinued, she said.

All future weekday Relief Society meetings are to be called what they are: Relief Society meetings, she said.

These meetings, Sister Beck explained, can be valuable supplements to Sunday instruction, especially for sisters who serve in Primary or Young Women or who are unable to attend Sunday meetings. They are also a good place to bring friends of other faiths or to include those sisters who do not actively participate in the Church.

During her address, Sister Beck outlined numerous objectives and procedures for weekday Relief Society meetings. Following is a list of guidelines for additional meetings as outlined in Sister Beck's talk:

The ward Relief Society president should oversee all Relief Society meetings.

The Relief Society president should counsel regularly with her bishop regarding how these meetings can meet the needs of individuals and families in the ward.

Plans should be consistent with current policies about activities, including policies about finances.

Meeting plans should be approved by the bishop.

At least one member of the Relief Society presidency should attend all meetings.

The Relief Society president should oversee the meetings, but may ask the first or second counselor or recommend a sister in the ward be called to be coordinator of the meetings.

The Relief Society presidency prayerfully determines how often to hold these meetings and where they should be held.

Meetings generally should be held monthly. The bishop and the Relief Society president determine the frequency of the meetings. Efforts should be made to hold the meetings at least quarterly.

Meetings should be held at a time other than Sunday or Monday evening.

Sisters should not be made to feel that it is mandatory to attend all these meetings.

When planning meetings, the Relief Society presidency should take into consideration time commitments of sisters, family circumstances, travel distance and cost, financial cost to the ward, safety and other local circumstances.

Meetings, under the direction of the bishop, can be used to address spiritual and temporal needs of individuals and families and to strengthen unity.

Meetings should accomplish the "charitable and practical responsibilities" of Relief Society. They should increase faith and personal righteousness, strengthen families and homes and provide service.

In planning meetings, the Relief Society presidency should give priority to topics that fulfill Relief Society purposes, such as marriage and family, homemaking, provident living and self-reliance, compassionate service, temple and family history, sharing the gospel, and other subjects requested by the bishop.

Meetings can focus on one topic or be divided into more than one class or activity.

Generally, teachers should be members of the ward or stake.

One meeting a year may commemorate the founding of the Relief Society and focus on its history and purpose.