Pinterest Party RS Night

Thanks to everyone who came to our RS Night this past Tuesday. We celebrated the RS Birthday with a great pinterest dinner recipe and by doing some fun simple crafts. Thanks to everyone who helped contribute to the night.

 

Samples of sisters Pinterest projects

The How to Use Pinterest Tutorial. Thanks Lisa!

The coasters we made.

 

 

Pinterest Party

 We will be making 4x4 tile coasters with scrapbook paper. Bring your own pictures if you would like to put a picture on your coaster. Everyone can make a set of 4 as a gift for someone or for your own home.

 

We will also be making candy jars from baby food jars. Great for an easter gift, visiting teaching, party favors, or for your home. Customize them anyway you would like.

 

Everything is free and no need to sign up for any crafts, everything will be available to everyone the night of. Hope to see you there!!

 

March Visiting Teaching Message

Prayerfully study this material and, as appropriate, discuss it with the sisters you visit. Use the questions to help you strengthen your sisters to make Relief Society an active part of your own life. For more information, go to reliefsociety.lds.org

Activation

Our prophet, President Thomas S. Monson, has encouraged us to “reach out to rescue those who
need our help and lift them to the higher road and the better way. … It is the Lord’s work, and when
we are on the Lord’s errand, … we are entitled to the Lord’s help.”¹

Many years ago LaVene Call and her visiting teaching companion visited a less-active sister. They knocked on the door and found a young mother in her bathrobe. She looked ill, but they soon realized her problem was alcohol. The visiting teachers sat and talked with the struggling young mother.

After they left, they said, “She is a child of God. We have a responsibility to help her.” So they visited often. Each time, they could see and feel a change for good. They asked the sister to attend Relief Society. Though reluctant, she eventually attended regularly. After encouragement, she and her husband and daughter attended church. The husband felt the Holy Ghost. He said, “I’m going to do what the bishop suggests.” Now they are active in the Church and have been sealed in the temple.²

From the Scriptures

3 Nephi 18:32; Doctrine and Covenants 84;106; 138:56

From Our History
Helping those who have gone astray come back to the gospel of Jesus Christ has always been part of
being a Latter-Day Saint and a member of Relief Society. President Brigham Young (1801-77)
said, “Let us have compassion upon each other, … and let those who can see guide the blind until
they can see the way for themselves.”³

Eliza R. Snow, second Relief Society general president, gratefully acknowledged the efforts of
sisters in Ogden, Utah, USA to strengthen one another. “I am well aware that a great deal is
donated [in terms of service] that never reaches the [record] books,” she said. But recognizing
that a heavenly record is kept of the sisters’ work as they reach out to those whose hearts have grown cold, she said; “President Joseph Smith said this society was organized to save souls. … Another book is kept of your faith, your kindness, your good works, … Nothing is lost.”4

What Can I Do?

1. Am I confident asking a less-active sister to attend a Relief Society meeting with me?
2. Do the sisters I watch over feel comfortable asking me questions about the gospel?

Notes
1. Thomas S. Monson, “The sacred call of Service,” Ensign, May 2005, 55, 56.
2. Letter to the Relief Society general presidency from the daughter of LaVene Call.
3. Brigham Young, in Daughters in My Kingdom: The History and Work of Relief Society (2011).
4. Eliza R. Snow, in Daughters in My Kingdom, 83.

March Birthdays

2 Rita Hagen
3 Marla Cochran
3 Judith Dinneen
4 Susan Lua
7 Cathy Lewis
8 Cathleen McLaughlin
9 Suzanne Jurgensen
9 Becky Mendoza
9 Lea Osborn
9 Lori Lea Taylor
9 Carin Thomer
13 Laia Jennings
13 Cheri Lynn Morgan
16 Cynthia Derevolyee
16 Lisa Hiatt
16 Jan Wolsleger
17 Suzie Heald
19 Jessica Bujes
26 Tammy Nordwick
29 Eunice Hilger
29 Joan Yarnall

Pecan Chicken with Blue Cheese Sauce

Ingredients:
4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
halves (5 oz. ea.)
1/4 tsp salt
1/8 tsp. pepper
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1 tbsp. minced fresh rosemary or
1 tsp. dried rosemary
1/4 cup butter, melted
1 tbsp. brown sugar
3/4 cup finely chopped pecans
SAUCE:
1 cup heavy whipping cream
1/3 cup crumbled blue cheese
1 tbsp. finely chopped green onion
1/4 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. pepper

Directions:
Sprinkle chicken with salt and pepper. In a shallow bowl, combine flour and rosemary; in a separate shallow bowl, combine butter and brown sugar. Place pecans in another shallow bowl. Coat chicken with flour mixture, then dip in butter mixture and coat with pecans. Transfer to a greased baking sheet. Bake at 375º for 20 -25 minutes or until a thermometer reads 170º.

Meanwhile, place cream in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 8-10 minutes or until thickened. Stir in the cheese, onion, salt and pepper. Serve with chicken.
(yield 4 servings)

February Visiting Teaching Message

Converted unto the Lord

Prayerfully study this material and, as appropriate, discuss it with the sisters you visit.  Use the questions to help you strengthen your sisters to make Relief Society an active part of your own life.  For more information, go to www.reliefsociety.lds.org

Faith, Family, Relief

New sisters of the Church – including Young Women entering Relief Society, sisters returning to activity, and new converts – need the support and friendship of visiting teachers.  “Member involvement is vital to convert retention and in bringing less-active members back into full activity,” said elder M. Russell Ballard of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.  “Capture the vision the Relief Society... can become [one of] the most powerful friendshipping resource[s] we have in the Church.  Reach out early to those being taught and reactivated, and love them into the Church through your organization.”

As members of Relief Society, we can help new members learn basic Church practices, such as:

..Giving a talk   

..Bearing Testimony

..Living the law of the fast.  

..Paying tithing and other offerings 

..Participating in family history work.

..Performing baptisms and confirmations for their

  deceased ancestors.

“It takes attentive friends to make new members feel comfortable and welcomed at church.”  said Elder Ballard. ²  All of us, but especially visiting teachers,

have important responsibilities to establish friendships with new members as a way of helping them become firmly “converted unto the Lord”  (Alma 23:6)

From the Scriptures

2 Nephi 31:19 – 20; Moroni 6:4

From Our History

“With the ever-increasing number of converts,” said President Gordon B. Hinckley (1910 – 2008), “we must make an increasingly substantial effort to assist them as they find their way.  Every one of them needs three things; a friend, a responsibility, and nurturing with ‘the good word of God’ (Moroni 6:4).”³

President Joseph Fielding Smith (1876-1972) said Relief Society is a vital part of the kingdom of God on earth and… helps its faithful members to gain eternal life in our Father’s kingdom.

What Can I Do?

     1.  Do I pray for my companion and ask that the Spirit will guide us as we minister to our sisters?

     2.  In what ways do we serve each sister we watch over so that she knows we truly care about her?

     Notes

     1.  M. Russell Ballard, “Members are the Key,” Ensign, Sept. 2000,13.

     2.  M. Russell Ballard, “Members are the Key,” 14.

     3.  Gordon B. Hinckley, “Converts and Young Men,” Ensign, May 1997,47

     4.  Joseph Fielding Smith, in Daughters in My Kingdom:  The History and Work of Relief Society (2011), 97.

February Birthdays

1 Lia Mendoza
2 Ruth Ann Taormina
9 Shirley Ogle
14 Grace Shores
16 Nina Britt
16 Linda Griffith
16 Monique McLaws
17 Mara Lee Houdyshell
17 Suzie Heald
20 Madison Thomer
23 Tamoline Chappell
25 Cheryl Cannon