RS Gardening Activity

 On September 6, 2025 we gathered in the Mendoza Family’s home for our relief society’s gardening activity. A lot of us have always been curious about how gardening works, especially since many of us may live in areas where growing plants can be inaccessible due to the need of a big surrounding area or the need of sunlight. It was a creative idea to start our personal gardening journey by planting soil and seeds on an egg tray. This gives everyone the opportunity to garden and grow plants inside their home, and allows them to conveniently take them outside to take care of them, water them, and give them sunlight. 

Recently a lot of men and women have been engaged in gardening. What started out as curiosity has now become a hobby to tend and take care of their plants, and some may even end up selling them. Gardening looks like an easy hobby, but there are a few rules that you need to follow so that your seeds will grow into beautiful plants and flowers. 

Key gardening rules include providing the right environment with good soil and appropriate sunlight, choosing plants that suit your area and preferences, starting small, and implementing good soil management practices like composting and mulching. Regular maintenance, proper watering and feeding, and pest prevention are also essential for success.

In the scriptures we read about how we can compare the seed to our faith. There are also a few guidelines that help us be successful in gardening our faith. 

Alma 32:28 says, “Now, we will compare the word unto a seed⁠. Now, if ye give place, that a seed may be planted in your heart⁠, behold, if it be a true seed, or a good seed, if ye do not cast it out by your unbelief⁠, that ye will resist the Spirit of the Lord, behold, it will begin to swell within your breasts; and when you feel these swelling motions, ye will begin to say within yourselves—It must needs be that this is a good seed, or that the word is good, for it beginneth to enlarge my soul; yea, it beginneth to enlighten my understanding⁠, yea, it beginneth to be delicious to me.”

In our every day and in our every hobby, we can find and learn what the Lord would have us learn about ourselves and our faith. Even with gardening, we can learn how to tend our faith.