Fantastic Friday Crafts

Finally! Here are pictures of our crafts for the upcoming November 4th Fantastic Craft Night:

6:00 to 7:00 classes:

7:00 to 8:00 classes:

8:00 to 9:00 classes:

9:00 to 10:00 classes:

Can be worked on anytime throughout the night:

Save the Date! Fantastic Friday is Nov. 4th

Pictures of projects will be coming soon!

Jesus the Christ - Closing activity

Thank you to all the sisters who made it out to our activity on Tuesday evening! It was a wonderful opportunity to visit and chat with one another over dinner as well as be spiritually uplifted by our wonderful speaker, Brother Howard Evans.

 

 

Hairbows & Headbands

Book Exchange Book List

Thanks to the ladies that came last night, our book exchange was a great hit! We decided it should be a yearly activity :)

Books traded:
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
The Doctrine and Covenants Revelations in Context - The 37th Annual Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium
The Goose Girl - Shannon Hale
The Great House of God - Max Lucado
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - J. K. Rowling
The Killer Angels - Michael Shaara
My Name is Mary Sutter - Robin Oliveira
No Longer Strangers - Rachel Ann Nunes
Odds Are You're Going to Be Exalted - Alonzo Gaskill
The Pioneer Woman Cooks - Ree Drummond
Rainwater - Sandra Brown
Saying it Like it Is - Sheri Dew
Think Big - Ben Carson
Up From Slavery - Booker T. Washington

Other recommended books:
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
Born on a Blue Day - Daniel Tammet (Daniel is autistic - interesting insight)
Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
The Color of Water - James McBride
The Great Divorce - C.S. Lewis
Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Anne Shaffer
The Help - Kathryn Stockett
The Hiding Place - Corrie Ten Boom
Manhunt - James L. Swanson
No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin (about FDR and Eleanor - long book but very good)
Team of Rivals - Doris Kearns Goodwin (long book about Abraham Lincoln's presidency - great read)
The Shack - William P. Young
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortensen

Book exchange inspired by: Reid Girls Handmade

Relief Society Book Exchange

Don't forget! Tomorrow is our ward Relief Society Book Exchange, 7pm in the Relief Society Room...

Cannery Visit + Canner availability

Cannery Trip

Cynthia Israelson has reserved a date at the cannery for up to 6 people on

Tuesday, June 21st at 10 am.

The first 5 sisters that get back to her can go on that day. 

Please call her if you would like to go or if you have any questions.

Canner Available Locally July 5^th - July 11^th

Cynthia Israleson has reserved a canner to do dry canning in the #10 cans at her home. 

She will pick it up on July 5th and set it up in her garage through July 11th. 

You can call her and come by just about anytime during that week.

Be thinking about what kinds of dry goods you'd like to can.

You will need to pick up your #10 cans between now and then at the cannery.

June 14 - RS 4th of July Wood Blocks

We hope you will be able to join us next Tuesday for this fun and easy craft activity! We will be meeting at the home of Anne Steenblik at 7pm. A list of the supplies you will need are on the flier below. Just click on it to make it big.

(If you need her address, please contact someone in the ward)

Sunday Lesson - "Sacrifice"

This week’s lesson on Sacrifice (Relief Society Handbook) was taught by Heidi Myron. Heidi reminded us that the Law of Sacrifice allows us to learn something about ourselves and to what extent we are willing to go to sacrifice for the Lord. It is also an opportunity to prove to Him that we love Him more than any other thing.

“We should be willing to sacrifice whatever he requires of our time, our earthly possessions, and our energies to further His work. “

The Law of Sacrifice prepares us for the Celestial Kingdom; “to dwell in the presence of God and his Christ forever and ever.” (D&C 76:62)

Don't Forget! Relief Society Education Day

This Saturday is the Escondido South Stake Relief Society Education Day. There will be 6 Sessions of fantastic classes. Bring your own lunch and invite your friends! Great guest speaker: Dr. Lynne Hilton Wilson.

“Lay aside the things of this world and seek for the things of a better”

Doctrine and Covenants 25:10

Saturday, June 4, 2011

8:45am-3:35pm

Escondido Stake Center

2255 Felicita Road, Escondido

For all women 18 years and older. Friends and neighbors welcome.

No charge. No childcare provided but nursing babies in arms are welcome.

8:45am-8:55am     Welcome-Lee Taotafa

8:55-9:10am          Theme-Sis.Laura Berry

9:20-10:10am        Session 1

10:20-11:10am      Session 2

11:20-12:10pm      Session 3

12:20-1:35pm        Session 4 : Guest Speaker-Sis. Wilson

1:45-2:35pm          Session 5

2:45-3:35pm          Session 6

Go to www.ourreliefsociety.com to download the schedule and any available handouts listed by speaker.

Type in the username [ourreliefsociety] and password [handouts], then double click on the desired information.

Sunday Lesson - “An Ensign to the Nations”

Connie Rollins’ lesson this week was from Elder Jeffrey R. Holland’s May 2011 Conference talk , “An Ensign to the Nations.”   She shared with us President Brigham Young’s dream in 1846 in which he saw “an angel standing on a cone-shaped hill somewhere in the West pointing to a valley below.”  This dream was realized 18 months later, when he took a yellow bandana from Heber C. Kimball and a walking stick carried by Elder Willard Richards.  From these items, he created a makeshift flag and “declared the valley of the Great Salt Lake and the mountains surrounding it as that prophesied place from which the word of the Lord would go forth in the latter days.”   The publication Ensign, (pronounced en’sīne) in which we can read the word of the Lord spoken to us through revelation, is a “continuation of that early declaration to the world.”

Sister Rollins also shared with us that the General Conference speakers are not assigned a topic, but that many hours of fasting, praying and study are spent to know the topic the Lord wishes each speaker to present.  The messages must be directed to a wide variety of people, members and non-members alike, families, singles, old and young, with such variety that they assume there will be “something for everyone.”   

Connie brought out a map and showed us the locations of future temple sites in Ft. Collins, Co, Meridian, ID, and Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.  Do you know where these cities are?  Show these new sites to your children!  

We are so grateful for the messages and testimonies shared with us during each April and October Conference, and for the opportunity to read and listen to these messages after they are given though the church publications and websites!

Ice Cream Social and Welcome

Just for fun