Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Monday, November 19, 2012
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Pears! Pears! Pears!
Pears are available for order again this year for $24 per 40 lb box. They will arrive in mid September. There will be a drop location in the area and you need to pay at the time of pick up. TO PLACE ORDERS: LINDA HAYES #435-878-2468 or pearslindahayes@scinternet.net
PEAR ORDERS HAVE TO BE IN BY AUGUST 1ST!!!
Also, a reminder that the canners are available to be used by families or wards for dry pack canning. Contact a member of the RS Presidency to pick them up from the Stake Center or there are 4 available for check out through the Home Storage Center at the cannery.
PEAR ORDERS HAVE TO BE IN BY AUGUST 1ST!!!
Also, a reminder that the canners are available to be used by families or wards for dry pack canning. Contact a member of the RS Presidency to pick them up from the Stake Center or there are 4 available for check out through the Home Storage Center at the cannery.
Playgroup for July
Playgroup is Wednesday, July 18th. We will be at the Hidden Valley Park Splash Pad in Bloomington. The address is 3505 S. Barcelona Dr. Bring a lunch! See you there! Everyone is welcome, you don't have to have kids :)
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Monday, June 11, 2012
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Mark your calendars for June 12th...You won't want to miss this activity!!
For easy summer meal ideas
And laid back summer fun,
Our June 12th picnic promises
No ants or scorching sun!
Sunscreen optional. Smiles a must.
7 o'clock pm in the cultural hall
Dinner and Nursery Provided
Casual Dress
Thursday, May 24, 2012
More Recipes To Share!!
For those of you that were wanting the recipes for our delicious appetizers from our May activity...Here they are!!
- Chili Queso
1 can chili
1 (8 oz.) package cream cheese
1/2 to 1 c. shredded cheddar cheese
Mix altogether in microwave, stove top, or crockpot until heated through and cheese is melted.
Bacon Wrapped Water Chestnuts
1 pkg bacon
1 can WHOLE water chestnuts
1 c.ketchup
1 c. sugar
toothpicks
Preheat oven at 375 degrees. Cut each strip of bacon into 3 pieces. Cut each whole water chestnut into 4 pieces. Wrap a small piece of bacon around the water chestnut and hold together with a toothpick. Mix sugar and ketchup together. Dip each bacon wrapped water chestnut into the ketchup mixture and place on a cookie sheet. Bake for 45 minutes. Enjoy!!!
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Visiting Teaching for May
This month for May's msg. to share with your sisters is a conference talk from April General Conference. Take a moment to pray for your sisters by name and think about what talk would be best for them individually to hear.
Remember to minister!
*Check in with your sisters more than once a month
-service
-text
-email
-phone call
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
R.S. meeting on Tuesday, May 8th...You won't want to miss it!
LET'S GROW TOGETHER...
It's planting time again
And our harvest will be grand,
If we sow seeds of kindness
And our friendship base expand.
Let's get to know our sisters
And what they love and treasure.
And the bounty that we reap
Will be beyond our measure.
Bring something you love (or love to do) to display.
Tuesday, May 8th
7:00 PM
Appetizers will be served. Nursery provided. Dress casual.
It's planting time again
And our harvest will be grand,
If we sow seeds of kindness
And our friendship base expand.
Let's get to know our sisters
And what they love and treasure.
And the bounty that we reap
Will be beyond our measure.
Bring something you love (or love to do) to display.
Tuesday, May 8th
7:00 PM
Appetizers will be served. Nursery provided. Dress casual.
Changes to Playgroup
Playgroup will now be on Thursdays!! For the month of May we will be having playgroup at 10:00 AM at Unity Park. We always have a fun time visiting while the kids play. Come and have a fun time with the other moms & get a break while your kids play.
Sunday, April 1, 2012
Visiting Teaching Message ~ April 2012:
Love, Watch Over, and Strengthen
Prayerfully study this material and, as appropriate, discuss it with the sisters you visit. Use the questions to help you strengthen your sisters and to make Relief Society an active part of your own life.
Love, Watch Over, and Strengthen
Like the Savior, visiting teachers minister one by one (see 3 Nephi 11:15). We know we are successful in our ministering as visiting teachers when our sisters can say: (1) my visiting teacher helps me grow spiritually; (2) I know my visiting teacher cares deeply about me and my family; and (3) if I have problems, I know my visiting teacher will take action without waiting to be asked.1
How can we as visiting teachers love, watch over, and strengthen a sister? Following are nine suggestions found in chapter 7 of Daughters in My Kingdom: The History and Work of Relief Society to help visiting teachers minister to their sisters:
• Pray daily for her and her family.
• Seek inspiration to know her and her family.
• Visit her regularly to learn how she is doing and to comfort and strengthen her.
• Stay in frequent contact through visits, phone calls, letters, e-mail, text messages, and simple acts of kindness.
• Greet her at Church meetings.
• Help her when she has an emergency, illness, or other urgent need.
• Teach her the gospel from the scriptures and the Visiting Teaching Messages.
• Inspire her by setting a good example.
• Report to a Relief Society leader about their service and the sister’s spiritual and temporal well-being.
From the Scriptures
Luke 10:38–39; 3 Nephi 11:23–26; 27:21
From Our History
“Visiting teaching has become a vehicle for Latter-day Saint women worldwide to love, nurture, and serve—to ‘act according to those sympathies which God has planted in [our] bosoms,’ as Joseph Smith taught.”2
A sister who had recently been widowed said of her visiting teachers: “They listened. They comforted me. They wept with me. And they hugged me. … [They] helped me out of the deep despair and depression of those first few months of loneliness.”3
Help with temporal tasks is also a form of ministering. At the October 1856 general conference, President Brigham Young announced that handcart pioneers were stranded in deep snow 270–370 miles (435–595 km) away. He called for the Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City to rescue them and to “attend strictly to those things which we call temporal.”4
Lucy Meserve Smith recorded that the women took off their warm underskirts and stockings right there in the tabernacle and piled them into wagons to send to the freezing pioneers. Then they gathered bedding and clothing for those who would eventually come with few belongings. When the handcart companies arrived, a building in the town was “loaded with provisions for them.”5
For more information, go to reliefsociety.lds.org.
What Can I Do?
1. How can I know what my sisters need?
2. How will my sisters know that I care deeply about them?
Prayerfully study this material and, as appropriate, discuss it with the sisters you visit. Use the questions to help you strengthen your sisters and to make Relief Society an active part of your own life.
Love, Watch Over, and Strengthen
Like the Savior, visiting teachers minister one by one (see 3 Nephi 11:15). We know we are successful in our ministering as visiting teachers when our sisters can say: (1) my visiting teacher helps me grow spiritually; (2) I know my visiting teacher cares deeply about me and my family; and (3) if I have problems, I know my visiting teacher will take action without waiting to be asked.1
How can we as visiting teachers love, watch over, and strengthen a sister? Following are nine suggestions found in chapter 7 of Daughters in My Kingdom: The History and Work of Relief Society to help visiting teachers minister to their sisters:
• Pray daily for her and her family.
• Seek inspiration to know her and her family.
• Visit her regularly to learn how she is doing and to comfort and strengthen her.
• Stay in frequent contact through visits, phone calls, letters, e-mail, text messages, and simple acts of kindness.
• Greet her at Church meetings.
• Help her when she has an emergency, illness, or other urgent need.
• Teach her the gospel from the scriptures and the Visiting Teaching Messages.
• Inspire her by setting a good example.
• Report to a Relief Society leader about their service and the sister’s spiritual and temporal well-being.
From the Scriptures
Luke 10:38–39; 3 Nephi 11:23–26; 27:21
From Our History
“Visiting teaching has become a vehicle for Latter-day Saint women worldwide to love, nurture, and serve—to ‘act according to those sympathies which God has planted in [our] bosoms,’ as Joseph Smith taught.”2
A sister who had recently been widowed said of her visiting teachers: “They listened. They comforted me. They wept with me. And they hugged me. … [They] helped me out of the deep despair and depression of those first few months of loneliness.”3
Help with temporal tasks is also a form of ministering. At the October 1856 general conference, President Brigham Young announced that handcart pioneers were stranded in deep snow 270–370 miles (435–595 km) away. He called for the Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City to rescue them and to “attend strictly to those things which we call temporal.”4
Lucy Meserve Smith recorded that the women took off their warm underskirts and stockings right there in the tabernacle and piled them into wagons to send to the freezing pioneers. Then they gathered bedding and clothing for those who would eventually come with few belongings. When the handcart companies arrived, a building in the town was “loaded with provisions for them.”5
For more information, go to reliefsociety.lds.org.
What Can I Do?
1. How can I know what my sisters need?
2. How will my sisters know that I care deeply about them?
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Friday, March 23, 2012
Relief Society Activity...
Prepare yourself on April tenth
for friendship, food, & fun
enlightening entertainment
& something for everyone.
The fun begins at seven,
a nursery is provided
with caregivers we trust.
for friendship, food, & fun
enlightening entertainment
& something for everyone.
The fun begins at seven,
refreshments are a must,
a nursery is provided
with caregivers we trust.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Save the date:
Mark your calendars...April 10th @ 7pm is our next Relief Society activity. The theme for April is 'Preparedness'. Make sure you plan on attending this fun activity...more information to come.
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Visiting Teaching Message ~ March 2012
Daughters in My Kingdom
We are daughters of our Father in Heaven. He knows us, loves us, and has a plan for us. Part of that plan includes coming to earth to learn to choose good over evil. When we choose to keep God’s commandments, we honor Him and acknowledge our identity as daughters of God. Relief Society helps us remember this divine heritage.
Relief Society and its history strengthen and support us. Julie B. Beck, Relief Society general president, said: “As daughters of God, you are preparing for eternal designations, and each of you has a female identity, nature, and responsibility. The success of families, communities, this Church, and the precious plan of salvation is dependent on your faithfulness. … [Our Heavenly Father] intended Relief Society to help build His people and prepare them for the blessings of the temple. He established [Relief Society] to align His daughters with His work and to enlist their help in building His kingdom and strengthening the homes of Zion.”1
Our Father in Heaven has given us specific work to help build His Kingdom. He has also blessed us with the spiritual gifts we need to accomplish this specific work. Through Relief Society, we have opportunities to use our gifts to strengthen families, help those in need, and learn how to live as disciples of Jesus Christ.
President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, Second Counselor in the First Presidency, said of discipleship: “By patiently walking in the path of discipleship, we demonstrate to ourselves the measure of our faith and our willingness to accept God’s will rather than ours.”2
Let us remember we are daughters of God and strive to live as His disciples. As we do so, we will help build God’s kingdom here on earth and become worthy to return to His presence.
From the Scriptures
Zechariah 2:10; Doctrine and Covenants 25:1, 10, 16; 138:38–39, 56; “The Family: A Proclamation to the World” (Liahona and Ensign, Nov. 2010, 129)
From Our History
On April 28, 1842, the Prophet Joseph Smith said to the sisters in Relief Society: “You are now placed in a situation in which you can act according to those sympathies which God has planted in [you]. … If you live up to your privileges, the angels cannot be restrained from being your associates.”3
Recognizing the power of Relief Society to serve others and to help individuals increase in faith, Zina D. H. Young, third Relief Society general president, promised the sisters in 1893, “If you will dig in the depths of your own hearts you will find, with the aid of the Spirit of the Lord, the pearl of great price, the testimony of this work.”4
What Can I Do?
- 1.
How can I help my sisters reach their potential as daughters of God?
- 2.
How can I apply in my life the counsel and warnings given to women in Doctrine and Covenants 25?
For more information, go to reliefsociety.lds.org.
Monday, February 27, 2012
CREAMY CILANTRO-LIME RANCH DRESSING
This is the dressing recipe that was used at our Relief Society birthday party dinner that was held this month.
1 cup mayonaise
1/2 c. milk or buttermilk
1 lime, juiced (about 2 Tbl lime juice) I half this, or I think it's too limey
1 packet ranch dressing mix (ignore the directions on the packet)
2 cloves garlic, roughly chopped
1/2 c. roughly chopped cilantro
1/4 c. green salsa (I used Herdez brand, 89 cents @ Smith's)
Hot Sauce (like Cholula or Tabasco) to taste (I used a pinch of cayenne pepper)
Combine mayo, milk, lime juice, & the contents of the packet of ranch dressing, in a blender. Add garlic, cilantro, & green salsa & blend to thoroughly mix all the ingredients. Season with hot sauce, if desired. If possible, refrigerate for several hours to allow the dressing to thicken & the flavors to meld. ~Mindee Romberger
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