The General Relief Society Broadcast is on Saturday! 
Dinner will be served by at 6pm with the broadcast following at 7pm.  

This meeting comes once a year - the weekend before General Conference.  Relief Society sisters worldwide are invited to view the meeting by satellite broadcast.

Be sure to invite your visiting teaching sisters.
It is more fun to take someone with you, so come together!

Stake Temple Night

Come support our new Stake Presidency at our stake chapel session this Friday at 7p at the temple, we would love to see you all there.

Lisa Fink has offered to arrange babysitters for those of you who need one so contact her at llfink@cox.net or 602.938.7989 if you could take advantage of her kindness:)

Mark your calendars for Zumba!

Ladies, 


Please come join us for an early morning zumba/latin fusion fitness class at the church starting at 7 a.m. Saturday, September 24. Even if you have never danced before or tried zumba, this is the perfect opportunity to give it a try. Wear comfortable exercise clothes and shoes that you can move in. Bring a water bottle. It will be so much fun!

We need one priesthood holder to be at the church during our class, if your husband can do this please let us know. 

Michelle would like to teach this class a few days during the week around 6:00 am; however, we are not allowed to be in the building without priesthood there so if your husband would be available to help with this please let us know. It would be great if those sisters who participate in this class could rotate whose husband attends.

If you have questions or if your husband can help please contact kiana.shipley@gmail.com.

Opportunities to Do Good

 Dear Sisters,

Thank you to Julie Gundersen for teaching a wonderful lesson this week.  Here is a brief summary:

"Opportunities to Do Good" by Henry B. Erying

"Try a little harder to be a little better." 
— Gordon B. Hinckley

We are not talking about service to feel bad at what we don’t do.  We don’t need to compare to others and what they can juggle. To get down on ourselves. 

With that said I hope this lesson is motivating enough to help us all want to do more.

Thomas Monson…..I am confident it is the intention of each member of the Church to serve and to help those in need. How many times has your heart been touched as you have witnessed the need of another? How often have you intended to be the one to help? And yet how often has day-to-day living interfered and you’ve left it for others to help, feeling that “oh, surely someone will take care of that need.”

Why does God give us commandments to serve and ask us to look for opportunities to do good?

·         Because he wants us to progress and have joy

·         2 Nephi 2:25:  Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have joy.

Our agency is essential to existence and progression.

*again following the commandments is for our benefit and learning. By us looking for opportunities to do good we are greatly blessed

President Marion G. Romney said, “You cannot give yourself poor in this work.” And then he quoted his mission president, Melvin J. Ballard, this way: “A person cannot give a crust to the Lord without receiving a loaf in return.”

Henry B. Eyring: I have been grateful for those who helped me meet my needs. I have been even more grateful over the years for those who helped me become self-reliant. And then I have been most grateful for those who showed me how to use some of my surplus to help others.

What blessings come from serving our family?

·         Relationships, Trust, Greater love, Memories

Wise parents see in every need of others a way to bring blessings into the lives of their sons and daughters.

What can we teach our children that can bring them happiness?

·         Teach them how to serve (as it will bring them closer to their Heavenly Father and bring them joy):

Our actions of service will speak the loudest to our families.  When we serve them and others they will notice.

Henry B. Eyring suggests:  Draw your family into the work with you so that they can learn to care for each other as they care for others. Your sons and daughters who work with you to serve others in need will be more likely to help each other when they are in need.

Community:

Often we live side by side but do not communicate heart to heart. There are those within the sphere of our own influence who, with outstretched hands, cry out, “Is there no balm in Gilead?”

David O. McKay made this statement: “Man’s greatest happiness comes from losing himself for the good of others.”

What blessings come from directly involving ourselves and serving with our community?

·         Feel more united, Happier, Influence those around us for good, Love for those we serve

President J. Reuben Clark Jr.: “Giving has … brought … a feeling of common brotherhood as men of all training and occupation have worked side by side in a Welfare garden or other project.”4  The feelings of unity will multiply the good effects of the service you give. And those feelings of unity in families, in the Church, and in communities will grow and become a lasting legacy long after the project ends.

Thomas S. Monson shared poem.

I have wept in the night

For the shortness of sight

That to somebody’s need made me blind;

But I never have yet

Felt a tinge of regret

For being a little too kind.