The first Sunday of each month provides a time for the Relief Society presidency to teach the gospel, and for sisters to study and learn more about the purposes of Relief Society and its sacred work and to review counsel of the prophet of God to women. As directed by the Spirit, members of the presidency should provide instruction at this meeting, using the approved resource materials.

As members of the presidency prayerfully prepare for first-Sunday meetings, they should identify the needs of Relief Society sisters and consider how to best meet those needs.

The instruction should help sisters become more faithful members and better wives, mothers, daughters, and neighbors. To help accomplish this, presidencies should focus on recent direction of the First Presidency and on such topics as strengthening marriages and families, compassionate service, visiting teaching, missionary work, activation and fellowshipping, and family history and temple work. The presidency may take time to share instructions from priesthood leaders discussed in ward welfare and ward council meetings. They may also allow time for sisters to share testimonies.