What's New in Relief Society

Hi sisters! It's been a while since the blog was last updated... sorry for not being more on top of that! Here are some updates about happenings in the ward:

Mark Your Calendars!

May 28th from 7:00p-8:30p at the church. Professionals will teach us how to write professional resumes, proposals, vitas, and apply for scholarships! Anyone who is or will be looking for a job (or just may want to have this knowledge) is invited to come! Note-taking paper and pens provided. Refreshments will be served!

Stake Co-Ed Softball!

The stake has a softball league going on for those who are interested in playing! It's a blast to play for the ward team... go PP 10th! Contact Callie Jennings for more info.

Missionary Experience Goals!

The Bishop has asked that we raise the bar in our missionary efforts! If you were not able to grab the sheet explaining in further detail ideas for how to invite others to the gospel last week, be sure to pick one up in the foyer before or after sacrament meeting this coming week!

Moving Out?

Contact Tiffany Bills for help with moving needs :)

** A side note....

Remember that this blog can be used to share good news, insights to life and the gospel, smart finds (deals, sales, etc.), or so many other good things! Sometimes it's hard for all the "good news" to be shared in the time span of a Relief Society meeting on Sunday... please feel free to share your good news happening(s) with us! Want to start a up group (I.e. cooking, exercise, sewing, scrapbooking, gardening, book club, dessert nights, etc.)? We can help you get one started via the blog! Email the presidency at provopeak10rs@gmail.com to share the news/ideas. Then if you'd like, we can post it on the blog for all the sisters to see!

End of month!

Hi, sisters! The end of the month is approaching... and a fast month it was! Please be sure to visit/contact your sisters you visit teach, and let them know they're loved. The visiting teaching message on Personal Revelation can be found at http://www.lds.org/library/display/0,4945,2044-1-5146-1,00.html or in the April Ensign. Remember to report your visiting teaching to your district's supervisor (can be found in this week's Relief Society E-letter) by the end of the week!

Relief Society Birthday Party April 24th!

Hi sisters! Be sure to mark your calendars for Saturday April 24th from 2:00pm-3:30pm for a PARTY in honor of the Relief Society!! We'll first have a background presentation about some fun Relief Society facts. After that, we're delighted to have guest cake decorating teacher from BYU, Kristen Whiteman, come teach us how to spruce up our cupcake decoration skills! If you'd like, please sign-up this Sunday to bring a dozen or so unfrosted cupcakes (whichever flavor you'd like) for sisters to decorate on april 24th. Also, if you have piping tools for cake decorating, please bring those as well! We'll meet, eat, and decorate in the cultural hall. For a brief re-cap:

What: A birthday party for us!!!

When: Saturday April 24

Time: 2:00-3:30pm

Where: The cultural hall

What to expect: Strawberries, professional cupcake decorating, a delicious birthday cake, service, and best of all friends!!

We plan on beginning the presentation on the 2 o'clock hour :)

An Evening With the Provo Temple President and His Wife

Don't miss out on the Stake Relief Society Meeting and Social! Mark your calendars for Thursday April 15th at 7:00pm at the Locust Lane building (965 N Locust Lane, Provo). The Provo temple President, Merril J. Bateman, and his wife will be speaking to the stake Relief Society sisters about "The Blessings of the Temple."

Refreshments will be served.

"... Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord... and he will teach us of his ways and we will walk in his paths..." (Isaiah 2:3)

Relief Society Humanitarian Aid Project this Thursday!

Hi Sisters!

The Humanitarian Aid project is almost here! It will be held this Thursday @ 6:00pm in the East Relief Society room (where we have Sunday meetings). If you've signed up to bring any treats/refreshments, please bring those, as well as any thread, needles, batting, or quilt frames if you singed up to bring those, if they haven't been picked up by Thursday afternoon. We are excited to see all of you and the young women there! We'll have stickers to wear, a slideshow during the project, yummy refreshments, and, of course, friends! Remember to invite your neighbors and remind the sisters you visit teach to come!

See you there!

The True Value of Visiting Teaching

It’s another start to a new month! The time is perfect to set a date and time with our visiting teaching sisters to visit with them! Sister Julie B. Beck has this to say about visiting teaching in her General Relief Society Address “Relief Society: A Sacred Work”:

“Because we follow the example and teachings of Jesus Christ, we value [visiting teaching as a] sacred assignment to love, know, serve, understand, teach and minister in His behalf. This is one duty we have in the Church where we are certain to have the help of the Lord if we ask for it. This is one responsibility that is certain to increase our faith and personal righteousness and strengthen our own homes and families as we become partners with the Lord. A sister in the Church has no other responsibility outside her family that has the potential to do as much good as does visiting teaching…

“Visiting teaching becomes the Lord’s work when our focus is on people rather than percentages…Faithfully serving as a visiting teacher is evidence of our discipleship.”

How true these words are. We are so grateful for the diligence from all to strive to visit the sisters in the ward regularly. It really is the Lord’s work and we have so much potential to bless lives at our fingertips!

FREE Gardening Classes

This might be helpful info for anyone who wants to do some serious gardening and preparedness.

A gardening class is being taught by a seasoned gardner. It is a 6 week class, and is being offered without cost by this generous man and his wife. He's around 80, so he's had YEARS of experience, and are doing this to bless lives. It is being taught Tuesdays thru Saturdays at various locations throughout Utah Valley, (as it was last year) and is being offered again, starting the first week in February. Sorry to get this info to you with such late notice...


I have several friends who took the class last year and they loved it - so it comes hightly recommended (these are people who I thought were already great gardeners!) I'm looking forward to taking it this year.


Since it is being offered at such a variety of times and places, people could even arrange babysitting swaps if that was needed.


Here is the web address where you can access the information on when and where the classes are being taught: http://gordonwells.net/class05.html

All of his gardening info is available online without cost to those who take the class, if they want it. He has just updated all of his material. It is also available in book form if people desire to purchase it.


Again, the website is:


http://gordonwells.net/class05.html