Thursday, October 30, 2008

November Newsletter


If you click on the image it will get bigger.  This was in beautiful fall colors - but every time I uploaded it - and with different clients it went blue.  I don't know why.




Monday, October 20, 2008

10/19/08 Sunday Lesson

Barbara Ritchie taught our lesson this week. It was a great lesson from the Joseph Smith book called "Stand Fast through the Storms of Life." There were lots of amazing stories from Joseph Smith's life--the trials and tribulations he went through, why we have trials our lives, and how we can stand fast and be faithful.

John Taylor, the third President of the Church, said: “I heard the Prophet Joseph say, in speaking to the Twelve on one occasion: ‘You will have all kinds of trials to pass through. And it is quite as necessary for you to be tried as it was for Abraham and other men of God, and (said he) God will feel after you, and He will take hold of you and wrench your very heart strings, and if you cannot stand it you will not be fit for an inheritance in the Celestial Kingdom of God.’ … Joseph Smith never had many months of peace after he received the truth, and finally he was murdered in Carthage jail.”

“Stand fast, ye Saints of God, hold on a little while longer, and the storm of life will be past, and you will be rewarded by that God whose servants you are, and who will duly appreciate all your toils and afflictions for Christ’s sake and the Gospel’s. Your names will be handed down to posterity as Saints of God.”

George A. Smith, who served as a counselor to President Brigham Young, received the following counsel from the Prophet Joseph Smith at a time of great difficulty: “He told me I should never get discouraged, whatever difficulties might surround me. If I was sunk in the lowest pit of Nova Scotia and all the Rocky Mountains piled on top of me, I ought not to be discouraged but hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage and I should come out on the top of the heap at last.”

Next week our lesson will be from April's General Conference: "Daughters of God" by Elder M. Russell Ballard.

Sunday, October 12, 2008

Sunday Lesson

Today Jill Olsen gave a great lesson on keeping an eternal perspective in our lives. She listed some "tools" to help us do this: using humor, faith, time, and a couple more that I can't remember right now. (Post them, please, Jill!)

Next week our lesson will be chapter #19 from Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith: Stand Fast through the Storms of Life, taught by Sis. Barbara Ritchie.

Also, since I felt like I bumbled my way through the announcements, here they are for clarification:
  • Sundays (until Stake Conference), 6:00 pm @ the stake center--Y.M./Y.W. choir practice
  • Sat, Oct. 25, 9:00 am @ the church Craft group--circle albums. 10:00 Book Club discussion for A Train to Potevka, by Mike Ramsdell.
  • Tues, Oct. 28, Trunk-or-Treat/Halloween Carnival. More info to come next week.
  • Sat. Nov. 1, 9:00 am @ Ogden temple--ward temple day, and Stake R.S. temple day, meet at 8:45 am for the 9:00 session.
  • Sat. Nov. 8, 7:00 pm @ the stake center--adult session of Stake Conference
  • Sun, Nov. 9, 3:00 pm @ Ogden Tabernacle--general session of Stake Conference
  • D.I. Christmas Bishop's Night--collecting new or gently used toys, quilts, clothing, etc. Please drop off items to a member of the R.S. presidency or the D.I. by Nov. 20.

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Visiting Teaching PARTY!

Just a reminder from the Queen of Forgetfulness - be there or be square! Thursday 6:30

Monday, October 6, 2008

Visiting Teaching Conference

Is someone really missing a dining room chair?

Come Thursday night at 6:30pm to find out!