Hi Sisters,
This month is flying by, but
here are some things you shouldn't forget!
Dates to
Remember:
Oct. 27: Fall Fun/ Trunk or Treat 5
- 7 p.m.
Nov. 2: Ward Temple Night 6 p.m. Call 644-1820 to make an appointment.
Nov. 4: Fast Sunday
Nov. 11: Primary program
Nov. 22: Thanksgiving
Nov. 11: Primary program
Nov. 22: Thanksgiving
General Conference:
If you didn't get a chance to watch all of conference or you want to see it again, you can read, watch and/or listen to it here.
Fantastic
Friday:
Thank you to all who attended our spectacular Fantastic Friday! The food was delicious and the company was even better!
Visiting Teaching:
This month's visiting teaching message is about honoring our covenants. Here's a cute handout to go with it. Don't forget about visiting teaching interviews this week. If you didn't get a chance to sign up, please contact Cindy Porter cindyporter@cox.net to schedule a time. It's important that everyone has an interview so President Clark and her counselors know how the sisters are doing.
Missionary News:Visiting Teaching:
This month's visiting teaching message is about honoring our covenants. Here's a cute handout to go with it. Don't forget about visiting teaching interviews this week. If you didn't get a chance to sign up, please contact Cindy Porter cindyporter@cox.net to schedule a time. It's important that everyone has an interview so President Clark and her counselors know how the sisters are doing.
If you would like to feed the missionaries, please contact
Lauri Rex at laurirex@yahoo.com or 589-2929.
If you'd like to write to any of the missionaries, here are there addresses:
If you'd like to write to any of the missionaries, here are there addresses:
Elder Patrick Carlile
Germany Berlin Mission
Zerbster Straffe 42
12209 Berlin
Germany
Hermana Danielle Anderton
Chile Concepcion South Mission
O'Higgins 940, Oficina 503
Concepcion Bio-Bio
Chile
Elder Landon Gold
South Africa, Durban Mission
Suite 4, 2 Derby Place
Derby Downs Office Park
Westville 3630, South Africa
Elder Brendan
Hong
Bacolod Philippines
Mission
P.O. Box 660
Bacolod City
Philippines
Whether you know them or not, they would love to hear from you!
Whether you know them or not, they would love to hear from you!
Members in the Military:
In addition to
our missionaries, we have two young adult members of our ward currently serving
in the military who could also use your letters and support. Here are their
addresses:
LCPL, Ryan,
Sean, M.
P.O. Box 349000
#696
Kailua, HI
96734
RCT Joyce,
Jessica, M
4th RTBN, PLT
4027 Co, O
P.O. Box
16435
Parris Island, SC 29905-6445
(Jessica has completed boot
camp and is home for a few weeks. I will update her address when she goes back
out, but make sure to tell her hello while she's here!)
Temple
Theme:
One of our goals as a Relief Society Presidency and the focus of our Stake Relief Society Presidency is to get sisters to the temple, so when I found this video of President Monson talking about the purpose and importance of temples, I had to share it. Please watch it when you have a chance!
Oct. 21: George A. Smith Ch. 20 Temporal Salvation
Oct. 28: TFOT: The Merciful Obtain Mercy by President Dieter
F. Uctdorf
Nov. 4: Visiting Teaching Conference
Nov. 11: George A. Smith ch. 21 The Power of Kindness
Nov. 18: George A. Smith ch. 22 Bringing Up Children in Light and Truth
Lesson
Recap: Temporal Salvation for Ourselves and Others
Sister Marroquin gave our lesson on temporal salvation. She started by defining what temporal salvation is with a quote from President Joseph F. Smith, "You must continue to bear in mind that the temporal and spiritual are blended. They are not separate. one cannot be carried on without the other, so long as we are here in mortality..."
The Latter-day Saints believe not only in the gospel of spiritual salvation, but also in the gospel of temporal salvation. We have to look after the cattle,..the gardens and the farms,...and other necessary things for the maintenance of ourselves and our families in the earth...We do not feel that it is possible for men to be really good and faithful Christian people unless they can also be good faithful, honest and industrious people. Therefore, we preach the gospel of industry, the gospel of economy, the gospel of sobriety.
The lesson begins with a story from President George A. Smith's time as the Prophet in the years after World War II when President Harry S. Truman asked the church to provide food and supplies to those struggling in Europe. President Smith's reply to the president's question, "When can it be ready?" was "it's all ready, we just need cars and ships."
In the manual we read, Almost 15 years earlier, Elder Smith, then a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, addressed the Relief Society during another time of desperate need—the Great Depression. He taught that helping those in need goes beyond providing temporal assistance; it also requires true kindness and charity:
“There never has been a time, in my judgment, when kindness was needed more than now. These are the days when people’s souls are being tried, and when their hearts are being wrung. These are the days when many are facing hunger and distress even among the Latter-day Saints. …
“… I believe our Heavenly Father is giving us our opportunity for development. … We will discover now whether the love the Savior said should be in our hearts is among us.”.
Many of the quotes from President Smith like this one and others about self-reliance and preparedness apply easily to our times. One example from the manual is the following:
We are living in perilous times. The scriptures are being fulfilled, and as it appears to me this is the particular time when, if it were possible, the very elect would be deceived. It is remarkable how easy it is for those who desire to advance their financial interests in the world to find a reason for setting aside the plain teachings of the Lord with reference to our lives. And it is strange to me how many people fall into the habit of listening to those who say things that are contrary to the revealed will of our Heavenly Father. …
… This people have been advised to conserve their energies and their means. We have been taught by those whom the Lord has raised up to instruct us that we should live within our income, that we should not follow the fashions of the world and expend as rapidly and even more rapidly than we can earn the money that comes into our hands, to take care of ourselves and our families.
The Lord has directed us to work to earn our own livelihood. In his First Presidency Message from April, 1981, President Marion G. Romney said, "self-reliance implies the individual development of skills and abilities and then their application to provide for one's own needs and wants. It further implies that one will achieve those skills through self-discipline and then, through self-restraint and charity, use those skills to bless himself and others. That the Lord expects all his children of sound mind and body to thus perform in this second estate is made clear in many scriptural passages whose central thought focuses on work--personal, earnest, life-sustaining work."
The philosophy of living within our means needs to be reiterated over and over and is a fundamental part of our belief system. In addition to living within our means, when we, as President Smith said, "are generous with those means than no one need go without."
Sister Marroquin concluded her lesson with the following quote from President Smith:
Let us … look around us in our neighborhood—not leave it to the Bishop and the Relief Society, but let each of us be ministers of loving kindness to those who will need us so much. And whatever we do let us not make those who require assistance feel like paupers. Let us give what we give as though it belonged to them. God has loaned it to us. Sometimes we who have accumulated means [act] as though we think it belongs to us. Everything that we have, our food, our clothing, our shelter, our homes and our opportunities are all given to us as stewards in the Church and kingdom of our Heavenly Father, and if we will … impart of our substance even though it may be but the widow’s mite, we will obtain from him who lives on high the blessings we need in our day here upon the earth, and when the time comes for us to go hence we will find awaiting us the blessing of a loving Father who has appreciated the efforts we have put forth.16
If we desire to be identified with the kingdom of our Lord, the celestial kingdom, this is our opportunity to prepare,—with love unfeigned, with industry, with thrift, with perseverance, with a desire to do all that is within our power to bless others, to give—not to be always feeling we must receive, but desire to give, for I say to you: “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” [Acts 20:35.] The Gospel of Jesus Christ is a gospel of giving, not only of our substance but of ourselves, and I thank my Heavenly Father that I belong to such an organization that has been so instructed...
Thanks, Tracine, for a great lesson!
Brittany
Larsen
brittanylarsen73@hotmail.com
Jalane Hong - 1st Counselor john_jalane@msn.com
Melanie Jacobson - 2nd Counselor melanie53@hotmail.com
Cindy Porter - Secretary cindyporter@cox.net
