Relief Society Birthday Celebration TONIGHT!

Sisters!

Just a reminder that the Relief Society Birthday Celebration is today! You can come and stay for as long as you want from noon to six. We will be tying quilts for Haitian orphans.

Starting at 7 there will be a program, where Sunday dress is required. We will be singing the song we've been practicing on Sundays. If you don't know it, no worries-we will be bringing the sheet music!

There will be a renowned church song writer presenting and playing for us. It's supposed to be pretty amazing, so be sure to come! And of course there will be delicious treats after wards.

Come celebrate the best woman's organization EVER!

Love your relief society presidency

PS-it's at the church in case you were wondering :)

Announcements

Here are some of the upcoming events! Don't miss them!

Sunday Feb 14 Valentine' Day! Don't forget to buy your Hubs a card :)

Also, Ward Conference! 3rd hour will be combined with the Priesthood.

Tuesday Feb 16 Recipe Exchange 7p at the Church

We will be combined with the other relief society. Don't forget your recipes!

Tuesday Feb 23 Ward Relief Society Leadership Training

For all sisters with calling in the relief society. PLEASE try to make arragements to be there. The Bishop will be speaking to us and formal invitations will be coming soon.

*If you are new to the ward or have not yet had a visit with the Presidency please

contact Sarah at 321-223-3766 and we will find a time to meet with you.*

Presidency Lesson

I prayerfully pondered my topic for this lessons as I do for every lesson I teach and felt very compelled to speak about Love and Repentance. At first I wasn't sure how I would tie them together, but I'll try to highlight some of the good parts for those of you who missed it.

The definition of repentance in the Bible Dictionary is as follows: The Greek word of which this is the translation denotes a change of mind, i.e., a fresh view about God, about oneself, and about the world. Since we are born into conditions of mortality, repentance comes to mean a turning of the heart and will to God, and a renunciation of sin to which we are naturally inclined.

I loved this whole concept of "changing one's view". It made me start thinking about love and how we could change our view with whom we come in contact i.e spouse, friends, visiting teachers, etc.

President Eyring said, "Joy comes from putting the welfare of others above our own. That is what love is." We see people the way Christ would see them as we align our will with His. Our “view” of others will align with Christ’s and as we feel of Christ’s love for us we will be able to feel that love for others as well.

Here is the link to where I found the story I shared. The story is called The Visitor.
http://www.mormonsite.org/wisdom/index.html

I have a firm testimony that as we strive as sisters in our relief society to "change our view" and to repent and align our will with the Lord's will that He will bless us. Our relief society will feel united as our love for one another grows and as our testimonies are strengthened together. The Lord loves each and every one of us and as we keep His commandments we will feel of His love. I am grateful to be a part of this relief society and know that the work we do here is only bringing us closer to where we need to be.

Hello girls!

This Wednesday, Aug 5th, Laura Stodmeister is hosting an enrichment activity. This activity will begin at 7:30pm and will be held at Laura's house (address below). Laura is an excellent and very experienced cook and will be sharing a couple of her favorite healthy recipes with us (we actually get to sample them!). She would also like you to bring your favorite healthy recipe so we can swap and come home with many new meal ideas. If you have time, feel free to make many copies of your recipe. If not, no worries, recipe cards will be supplied so your recipe can be copied down.

If you have any questions or need directions to Laura's place feel free to call her (801-735-4988). Hope to see you all Wednesday night!

Laura's address: 782E 1740S, Orem

Love, Cherish

P.S. Quarterly Enrichment will be held Saturday, Aug 22 from 10:30 to 12:30. We are going to provide some much needed service for an orphanage in Mexico with lunch to follow. Mark it down on your calenders and listen for more details next Sunday.

After Dinner Activity

BYU 174^th Ward

After Dinner Activity

Saturday July 25^th

7:30pm

@the pavilion north of the church

We will be playing games, sparklers for the kids and will be watching an outside movie at dark

Please bring a dessert to share

Enrichment Rescheduled

Sorry for the last minute notice, but the enrichment activity has been moved. Please make sure your friends and visiting teaching companions, teachees...etc. get notice.

SOCIAL DANCE ENRICHMENT
- Has Been Postponed Until......
When: July 29 (Wed.)
Time: 7:00-8:00pm
Place: Relief Society Room in our Ward Building
*Come learn the Cha Cha and Swing. You are welcome to bring your husband or come by yourself and learn some basic dancing moves. The more the merrier!*

Oquirrh Mountain Temple Open House

Hello again, Sisters!

A few announcements:

The Oquirrh Mountain Temple Open House Ward Trip is this Saturday, July 11th. We'll be meeting at the church 10 am to car pool/caravan there. If you have any questions you can contact Jessica Valentine or the any member of the RS Presidency.

Also, it's the end of the month! Remember to do your visiting teaching, and report to either Ashton Swank or Sarah Vorwaller.

Thanks!

Quarterly Enrichment!

Hey Sisters!

We're back! Sorry for the lack of posts lately, but we're back up and running again!
And just in time to announce that our Quarterly Enrichment Activity is THIS SATURDAY, June 27th from 9:30 to 11:30 am at the Church.

Wear your fitness clothes and sneakers, we'll be having a health lesson, fitness class, kickball game, and BRUNCH!

Hope to see you there!

Free stuff!

All, with the recession and many people loosing their jobs and needing to save some green I thought my job might come in handy. I get a certain amount of free shampoo, toothpaste, mouthwash, shower gel, conditioner, baby powder...etc. from my work (Neways) we're def stocked up, so if anyone could use some free product please let me know! THANKS! Megan Lavin

Service auction!

Hey Sisters!

This is your friendly reminder that we are having our Service Auction Enrichment Activity this Saturday (January 10th) at 11:00 a.m. at the church!!!!  It is going to be a lot of fun!

Come and eat a yummy lasagna lunch followed by our much anticipated Service Auction!
Nursery is provided for children.  
You will receive $10 extra service bucks by being there by 11:15!  

Also, we totaled the possible amount of service bucks you could have received if you did 100% (meaning you did each daily thing EVERY day, each weekly thing EVERY week, and VT on the first week of every month) the TOTAL POSSIBLE amount would be 146 service bucks (the only exception would be to the additional service bucks for missionary moments).  
We think there may have been some confusion in the early weeks about how much was rewarded to the daily goals, so we wanted to clarify one more time to make sure that misunderstandings don't create an unfair advantage.   If you did misunderstand and have more than that, please adjust to your best judgment!  

Thanks for all your hard work doing the 100% for 100 days, and for your willingness to serve.   If you didn't get a chance to sign up to bring a service, you can still come (and bring a service you'd like to auction off) it's not too late!  We are excited to see you there!

Love,
  The Enrichment Committee

Ward Party?

Not anymore. The canyon has been closed so we are not having the ward party tonight. Please do not go up the canyon to go to our non-existent ward party. I'm not sure if they are going to reschedule, but I will post it if they do!

Fruit salad!

This is a recipe that Janneke gave us. It is sooo good! 

1- 20oz can pineapple chunks
1- 11oz can mandarin oranges
1- 3 1/2oz pkg instant vanilla pudding
2- med. apples, cut in chunks
2- med. bananas, cut

Drain canned fruit and save liquids. Mix pudding with drained juice. Add apples and bananas to fruit. Pour sauce over, toss, and refrigerate. 

This is a really great to eat as a side, dessert, or treat! So yummy!!

TUESDAY ACTIVITY!

There is an activity tonight! (Tuesday the 18th of November) 7 pm at the church. We are going to be tying blankets as a service. It will be super easy and fun. There will be treats so please come!!! 

We hope to see you all there. 

Service?

"I really want to do some service, and I heard that you can crochet leper bandages. I have yarn, I can kind of crochet...I just need the requirement sizes, the kind of stitch, and where I would send it to when I'm done." -Megan Lavin.

Does anyone know anything about this service? 

I found this blog http://www.leprosybandages.blogspot.com/ 

If anyone is interested in doing some service, this is a great opportunity! 

Weekend joy!

As I was walking to the BYU football game on Saturday I saw something on the ground. It was like it was placed there just for me to find, so I could give it Megan Lavin! Yes, I found another Glowspin calendar!!!  I will try to drop it off at your house, or bring it to church next week. 

Visiting Teaching!

"We have a challenge to ask all of the girl's we visit teach to go do iniatories. We feel that this matches the theme of the talk this month: Gender Is an Essential Characteristic of Eternal Identity and Purpose and will help the girls really feel and get in touch with their Eternal Identity and Purpose. This is a great way to help you fulfill your calling for the visiting teachers, and this is a great way to get your once a month temple visit in...so all in all it will bless your life and help you with the 100% for 100 days." -Megan Lavin. 

Also, there is an enrichment activity tomorrow at the church in the gym. Even if you didn't order something, still show up because from what I hear, we are making cute magnets, and there should be enough for everyone! 

Try to get your visiting teaching done, the month is already half over! 

2 in One

This will be a 2 in One post.

Make sure to go to tucanos.com/club_tucanos.html and sign up for a free meal during your birthday month. Of course you have to buy one meal to get a free one, but you can go during lunch and it's even less expensive! Yay for birthdays! Also Disney is doing the same thing next year. You can go to a disney park and get in for free on your birthday!

We are going to do an activity of tying baby blankets for the ward. It is a great service that we would love everyone to be involved with!

Good luck.

I got three glowspin calendars today. I'm sorry I couldn't get more. I would love for everyone to be able to have one of these calendars. If you email this guy tyler@glowspin.com he might be able to help you. He is the one who helped me get a couple of calendars. Make sure to leave your name and address so he can get some to you. 

I will try to post about wonderful little freebies as soon as I hear them. If anyone knows of any, please let me know.

EXTRA CALENDARS

(Not the actual pearls, but they look like this)

I received an email from the man in charge of the glowspin calendars! He told me he could bring me a couple of calendars... I'm not sure how many he intends on sending my way, but I already have 2 people who have told me they wanted them. If you did not get one and would like one, please let me know (leave a comment on this blog). I will pass them out first come first serve. 

FREE PEARLS! That's right, FREE!

Hello sisters! 

A couple of days ago as my husband and I got home we found a little coupon calendar book on our porch. Usually I flip through them and throw them away, but this time we found something that caught our  attention. FREE PEARLS! Absolutely free! This is seriously not a joke! If you got the GLOWSPIN calendar take a closer look! 

For those skeptics out there, this is the real deal. I went in there myself and got a FREE strand of pearls. I asked them what was up with the free pearls and they told me it was to get the town to know GOLDSMITH Co. better. It's just a fantastic advertisement idea! 

So here you go! If you like free things, that are super nice, and you have the GLOWSPIN calendar, go to Goldsmith and get a free strand of pearls!!