March 25th Weekly Connection

It's a Wrap.... What will you do with it now?
The Sabbath is a day to Worship - discussion led by Clorissa Bascom

Why do we go to the temple?  

    Peace from the things we are worried about?    Prayer and Strength?   An escape from the cares of the world?   To unite generations and feel closer to our ancestors?   To be reminded that we are a

    daughter of a Heavenly Father?   To learn more about the Spirit?

What do we do to prepare to go to the temple?

    Leave on time?   Dress nicely?     Pray for inspiration or answers to questions we have?     Plan for opposition from the adversary?    Change the music in the car?     Create a reflective environment?

Now ask yourself, do I put the same obedience, significance and thought into my Sabbath day worship?    We are commanded to keep the Sabbath day holy, just as we are commanded to attend the temple.  Consider this - The temple is a sacred place and the Sabbath is a sacred time.   The two have equal importance.   It's sometimes easy to dismiss or brush off the small and simple commandments, like keeping the Sabbath Day holy and as a day of worship instead of following them with the same diligence that we do the larger ones.   That being said we should not let ourselves become overwhelmed by the ideal picture of what Sabbath day worship is supposed to look like - there truly is no ideal and if there was we would all fall short!    What if instead we thought of our Sabbath Day worship like an oil lamp, with drops of small and simple holiness to fill it.   You thought of the Savior while in the shower before church - DROP, You said a prayer of gratitude  - DROP, You read the sacrament Prayer while waiting for the Sacrament to be passed to you - DROP, you were kind to those around you - DROP.    Our Sabbath Day Worship is part of our test here in mortality.  Just as we are instructed in D&C 25:10 - don't let the things of the world distract us from our eternal priorities.

Council Action for March (and April)
Everyone: Build a stronger relationship with your Father in Heaven.
Personalize it: Choose one thing that you need to work on to become closer to Heavenly Father.
Examples: attend the temple more often, spend more time in the scriptures, have more meaningful prayers, read and reread your patriarchal blessing, study conference talks, use positive talk about yourself, etc.

Sunday's Council or Discussion

March 31st and April 1st - General Conference 
Live Viewing Times and Options

April 7th (Saturday) Adult session of Stake Conference 6:00pm Stake Center

April 8th - Stake Conference 10:00am attend in our chapel

Upcoming Lessons in April
April 15th - The Book of Mormon:  What would your life be without it? by Russell M. Nelson

April 22nd - The Voice of the Lord by Neil L. Anderson

April 29th - 5th Sunday combined discussion
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
March 29th -

March 30th - Amelene South

Upcoming Events - Mark your calendars
April 12th - RS Activity meet at church at 6:30pm
Private tour of BYU Museum of Art Exhibitions:
M.C.Escher - Other Worlds
Tiffany Glass - Painting with Color and Light
Aundrea Frahm - We Revolve Ceaseless

March 17th through April 28th Jordan River Temple Open House 

Reserve tickets now.

April 7th & 8th - Stake Conference - see more info above

Ministering to the Sisters you Visit 
It's the last week of March.  Please report to your visiting teacher supervisor how you ministered to your sisters this month and also report any concerns.

From the Ensign:
March Visiting Teaching Principles (Pray for each sister by name.)

What have you seen or noticed as you have prayed for your sisters?

Prayers for....
Continue to pray for Bill and Linda Hartley. They appreciate all of the love and concern and prayers in their behalf at this time.

Kaye Wyler continues to recover from her surgery.

Katie Hilton is having surgery on Tuesday.

Do you know of anyone else in need of our prayers?  Please contact a presidency member.

Service Opportunities

From our Stake Relief Society...

(click to enlarge)

Pray for guidance for those within our ward you can serve and then act upon those promptings.

Good News

Please share with us any good news you have - we can all use a bright spot in our week!

LDS Tools Info

Is your info in LDS Tools up to date?  Do you have a current picture of you, your family and/or both?

Institute Class

Every Tuesday Morning

10:00am - 11:15am

Tanner Lane Stake Center in RS room (use south entrance)

Jesus Christ and the Everlasting Gospel

Taught by Betsy Jones and Sue Spencer

No babysitting

All sisters welcomed!

Comments Welcomed

Uplifting comments encouraged!  

March 18th Weekly Connection

It's a Wrap.... What will you do with it now?
March 18th - Be Ye Therefore Perfect--Eventually by Jeffery R. Holland - discussion led by Sharon Mardesich

Is there anything you have yet perfected in this life?  What are some things that you are good at?  And are there things you are still working on?  That's what this life is for....to work on becoming better everyday....therefore becoming perfect.....eventually!

There are many in the church who struggle with this issue...."I am just not good enough." "I fall so far short."  "I will never measure up."  Often times we worry so much about being perfect we forget that it is a process of becoming perfect.  Elder Holland said, "I believe Jesus intended His sermon to be a tribute to who and what God the Eternal Father is and what we can achieve with Him in eternity."

Too often we become afraid of failing.  But the truth is we all make mistakes.  "Except for Jesus, there have been no flawless performances on this earthly journey we are pursuing, so while in mortality let's strive for steady improvement without obsessing over what behavioral scientists call "toxic perfectionism.""

"Every one of us aspires to a more Christlike life than we often succeed in living.  If we admit that honestly and are trying to improve, we are not hypocrites; we are human."

Council Action for March (and April)
Everyone: Build a stronger relationship with your Father in Heaven.
Personalize it: Choose one thing that you need to work on to become closer to Heavenly Father.
Examples: attend the temple more often, spend more time in the scriptures, have more meaningful prayers, read and reread your patriarchal blessing, study conference talks, use positive talk about yourself, etc.

Sunday's Council or Discussion

March 25th - The Sabbath is a day to Worship - discussion led by Clorissa Bascom

March 31st and April 1st - General Conference

April 7th (Saturday) Adult session of Stake Conference 6:00pm Stake Center
April 8th - Stake Conference 10:00am attend in our chapel

Upcoming Lessons in April
coming soon

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
March 19th - Katie Hilton

Upcoming Events - Mark your calendars
April 12th - RS Activity meet at church at 6:30pm
Private tour of BYU Museum of Art Exhibitions:
M.C.Escher - Other Worlds
Tiffany Glass - Painting with Color and Light
Aundrea Frahm - We Revolve Ceaseless

March 23rd - this Friday - Handels Messiah performed by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir beginning at 7pm.  For more info click HERE.

March 17th through April 28th Jordan River Temple Open House 

Reserve tickets now.

March 25th - Fast Sunday

April 7th & 8th - Stake Conference - see more info above

Ministering to the Sisters you Visit 
What recent inspiration and ideas have come to you as you have prayed for individual sisters you visit?

From the Ensign:
March Visiting Teaching Principles (Pray for each sister by name.)

Julie Beck said, "Think of our combined strength if every sister had sincere prayer every morning and night or better yet, prayed unceasingly as the Lord has commanded."

Prayers for....
Brother Hartley spent a few days in the hospital but is now home with home health care helping with his needs. Please keep him and Linda in your prayers.

Also pray for Susan Allen and Kaye Wyler this week as they are having minor surgeries.

Do you know of anyone in need of our prayers?  Please contact a presidency member.

Service Opportunities

Send greetings to those who are having birthdays.

Write the Missionaries in the ward. 

Add opportunities you know of in the comments.

Pray for guidance for those within our ward you can serve and then act upon those promptings.

Good News

Please share with us any good news you have - we can all use a bright spot in our week!

LDS Tools Info

Are you getting email and texts from the Relief Society?  If not, please update your info in LDS Tools and let a member of the presidency know so we can get it updated in our contacts.  Also, please add a picture of yourself and/or family.

Institute Class

Every Tuesday Morning

10:00am - 11:15am

Tanner Lane Stake Center in RS room (use south entrance)

Jesus Christ and the Everlasting Gospel

Taught by Betsy Jones and Sue Spencer

No babysitting

All sisters welcomed!

Comments Welcomed

Please only leave uplifting comments.  Share ways you've implemented gospel living from our councils or discussions or any other gospel related victories or good news in your life!

March 11th Weekly Connection

It's a Wrap.... What will you do with it now?
Three Sisters by Dieter F. Uchtdorf - discussion led by Julie Peterson

Do you find yourself sad, mad or glad most of the time?  What causes you to feel this way?  Perhaps a few ideas might be... unrealistic expectations, our children and their choices and or actions, not part of the crowd, choices others are making, feeling inadequate, illness, life isn't fair, loss of loved ones and the list goes on.  Ironically these can apply to any of the 3.

We may not always get to choose what life hands us but we do get to choose how we respond to it.  First validate your feelings and then choose what you will then do with them.

When we choose to be sad or mad we are ultimately giving up control - we are letting others control our feelings.  This happens most frequently when we have been wronged by others. How do we move past that?  Forgiveness!  Our Savior taught us to forgive all!  As we forgive, our hearts will heal and we can feel more joy in our life.  This doesn't always mean those who wronged you have had a change of heart but because you have forgiven them you can be free of their control.

We must remember that we are the spiritual DNA of our Heavenly Father.  We must learn to recognize the spirit.  If you are having a hard time finding joy, try silencing your brain and tune into the spirit.

President Uchtorf said:  I have learned for myself that the path of discipleship in the gospel of Jesus Christ is the way to joy.  It is the way to safety and peace.  It is the way to truth.

Council Action for March (and April)
Everyone: Build a stronger relationship with your Father in Heaven.
Personalize it: Choose one thing that you need to work on to become closer to Heavenly Father.
Examples: attend the temple more often, spend more time in the scriptures, have more meaningful prayers, read and reread your patriarchal blessing, study conference talks, use positive talk about yourself, etc.

Sunday's Council or Discussion

March 18th - Be Ye Therefore Perfect--Eventually by Jeffery R. Holland - discussion led by Sharon Mardesich

Upcoming Lessons in March

March 25th - The Sabbath is a day to Worship - discussion led by Clorissa Bascom

March 31st and April 1st - General Conference

April 7th and 8th - Stake Conference

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

March 12th - Rebekah Nagata 
March 16th - Brianne Ballard 
March 16th - Monica Buchanan 
March 18th - Rose Burke

Upcoming Events - Mark your calendars
Our RS Birthday Party was a lot of fun! Thank you to our wonderful activities committee for all they did in providing an enjoyable evening!

We failed to get a picture of our special guests - our young women who will be joining Relief Society soon - but we want you to know we are excited to have you join us and welcome you with open arms!

Thank you to everyone who decorated the tables - they were beautiful!

Yummy cupcakes!

Here are a few of the requested recipes...

March 17th through April 28th Jordan River Temple Open House 

Reserve tickets now.

March 25th - Fast Sunday

Ministering to the Sisters you Visit 
It's almost mid March - how are the sisters you watch over doing?

From the Ensign:
March Visiting Teaching Principles (Pray for each sister by name.)

President Henry B. Eyring said: Pray for the way to know their hearts.  You will need to know what God would have you do to help them and to do it all, as nearly as you can, feeling God's love for them.

Prayers for....
Do you know of anyone in need of our prayers?  Please contact a presidency member.

Service Opportunities

Send greetings to those who are having birthdays.

Write the Missionaries in the ward. 

Add opportunities you know of in the comments.

Pray for guidance for those within our ward you can serve and then act upon those promptings.

Good News

Please share with us any good news you have - we can all use a bright spot in our week!

LDS Tools Info

Are you getting email and texts from the Relief Society?  If not, please update your info in LDS Tools and let a member of the presidency know so we can get it updated in our contacts.  Also, please add a picture of yourself and/or family.

Institute Class

Every Tuesday Morning

10:00am - 11:15am

Tanner Lane Stake Center in RS room (use south entrance)

Jesus Christ and the Everlasting Gospel

Taught by Betsy Jones and Sue Spencer

No babysitting

All sisters welcomed!

Comments Welcomed

Please only leave uplifting comments.  Share ways you've implemented gospel living from our councils or discussions or any other gospel related victories or good news in your life!

March 4th Weekly Connection

It's a Wrap.... What will you do with it now?

How do we see ourselves vs. How does Heavenly Father see us? council led by Valerie

We need to look at ourselves as our Heavenly Father does and build a strong personal relationship with Him. In what ways can I look at myself in positive ways instead of negative ways?

We are our biggest critics and easiest targets. It is easier to speak negatively of ourselves than it is to speak positively.

Look at how you feel about yourself … Are you light and beauty? YES! We are created by a loving Heavenly Father that created us with talents and attributes that He has in Himself. Let us look at ourselves in positive ways. It’s Satan that wants us to dwell on what the world thinks of us or how we assume others are judging us.

There is a difference between self-esteem and self-worth. Self-esteem is how the world judges us, but self-worth is how our Heavenly Father and Savior look at us. It is our soul that is of worth!

Criticism is like a cup with holes in it, when we look at ourselves in a positive way we can fill those holes and fill our cups with positive things.

On a list of things that we love about ourselves, how would we write ourselves? We are daughters of a Heavenly Father that loves us, that’s who we really are. We need to trust our Heavenly Father, He listens to our prayers and answers them. He is aware of our struggles. That is why he gave us His Son who took upon Himself our infirmities, our struggles, our pain, our loneliness, our doubts and our sins. He gives us these struggles so we can ask, what can I learn or what am I supposed to be learning? We may not immediately understand why we are experiencing struggles, they may be preparing us for something in the future.

The Savior said in D&C 6:36 “Look unto me in every thought; doubt not, fear not."
Look unto our Savior for peace, His arms are always open.

Council Action
Everyone: Build a stronger relationship with your Father in Heaven.
Personalize it: Choose one thing that you need to work on to become closer to Heavenly Father.
Examples: attend the temple more often, spend more time in the scriptures, have more meaningful prayers, read and reread your patriarchal blessing, study conference talks, use positive talk about yourself, etc.

Sunday's Council or Discussion

March 11th - Three Sisters by Dieter F. Uchtdorf - discussion led by Julie Peterson

Upcoming Lessons in March

March 18th - Be Ye Therefore Perfect--Eventually by Jeffery R. Holland

March 25th - The Sabbath is a day to Worship

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

March 8th - Kari Stilson

Upcoming Events - Mark your calendars
This Thursday....

March 8th - Hats Off to the Relief Society Birthday Party 

6:30pm at our church.  Dinner will be served.  For added fun wear a hat to the party that represents you!

Contact Tammy Ballard if you need a babysitter, the YW will go to your home to watch your children. 

March 10th - It Starts With Us Conference presented by the Utah Coalition Against Pornography 
9am - 4:30pm at the Salt Palace Convention Center

The purpose of the convention is to provide information and resources to help safeguard children and families from serious challenges of pornography.

March 17th through April 28th Jordan River Temple Open House 

Reserve tickets now.

March 25th - Fast Sunday

March 31st and April 1st - General Conference

April 7th and 8th - Stake Conference

Ministering to the Sisters you Visit
Invite the sisters you visit teach to go to the Relief Society Birthday Party with you this Thursday.  

From the Ensign:
March Visiting Teaching Principles (Pray for each sister by name.)

Praying for others does not only invoke Heavenly Father's blessings but also helps us know how we can bless them too.

Prayers for....
Please keep Stephanie Howell in your prayers this week as she will be having surgery on Wednesday.

Do you know of anyone in need of our prayers?  Please contact a presidency member.

Service Opportunities

Send greetings to those who are having birthdays.

Write the Missionaries in the ward. 

Add opportunities you know of in the comments.

Pray for guidance for those within our ward you can serve and then act upon those promptings.

Good News

Please share with us any good news you have - we can all use a bright spot in our week!

LDS Tools Info

Are you getting email and texts from the Relief Society?  If not, please update your info in LDS Tools and let a member of the presidency know so we can get it updated in our contacts.  Also, please add a picture of yourself and/or family.

Institute Class

Every Tuesday Morning

10:00am - 11:15am

Tanner Lane Stake Center in RS room (use south entrance)

Jesus Christ and the Everlasting Gospel

Taught by Betsy Jones and Sue Spencer

No babysitting

All sisters welcomed!

Comments Welcomed

Please only leave uplifting comments.  Share ways you've implemented gospel living from our councils or discussions or any other gospel related victories or good news in your life!