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

Re-cap "Relief Society: A Sacred Work"

Sister Julie B. Beck is our current General Relief Society President. She is a wonderful orator and has spoken to women of the Church on several occasions. In her latest General Relief Society Meeting address, she has addressed a few changes to the Relief Society program. These are inspired changes and have been made in coaction with the First Presidency of the Church. As a ward presidency, we would like to take the opportunity to ask the sisters to join us in observing these outlines and become familiar with the changes. Sister Beck's talk is entitled, "Relief Society: A Sacred Work," and can be found in the November 2009 Ensign issue or on www.lds.org. We advise you as a Presidency to review these changes and look for ways that they promote the mission of the Church and of the Relief Society program. Below are the objectives of Relief Society as a worldwide organization, but it really comes down to what we do as individual sisters and then bring that to unify our wards, stakes, areas, etc. As you read and re-familiarize with these objectives, we encourage you to make individual assessments and changes where you feel necessary in your lives.

Both individually and collectively sisters of Relief Society make a difference in these six ways:

• Build faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and teach the doctrines of the kingdom (see 2 Nephi 31:20-21; Omni 1:26).
• Emphasize the divine worth of each sister (see D&C 25:2-3, 15-16; Moses 6:9).
• Exercise charity and nurture those in need (See Mosiah 4:26; Moroni 7:46-48).
• Strengthen and protect families (see Mosiah 4:14-15; D&C 130:2).
• Serve and support each sister (see 1 Corinthians 12:13-27).
• Help sisters become full participants in the blessings of the priesthood (see D&C 66:2; 84:35-39; Moses 5:1).

What areas are you doing well in? It is okay to recognize your strengths. What things can you improve on? There is always room for improvement, but these can be approached one step at a time. One way to approach this is to make a list of areas for improvement and log your assessments daily or weekly in a journal. Make goals recognizable enough so that you can write down your improvements.

As women, we need each other's support and love. We need all of your gifts and talents to make this year a successful one in the ward. We are grateful and privileged to have association with such a wonderful group of women.

With our love,

The 10th Ward RS Presidency