Thanksgiving Feed made it in St. Pete Times

Blessings in a Backpack

We have now done 2 months of stuffing Backpacks and we have helped a ton with food donations. The director is hoping that by March we will have enough donation capacity to add another elementary school to the list.

The director was telling Kim Fulford, that one of the teacher's was asking kids what they were thankful for (in preparation for Thanksgiving)--and one little girl said she was thankful for the food in a backpack that put food on her table during the weekends. It brought tears to the teacher's eyes. We are helping out right now in a way that is very significant to these children. Thank you soooo much!!!

Our own ward thanksgiving food drive is well on its way! We are putting together the baskets for thanksgiving next Wednesday. Please bring in all donations either on Sunday or next Wednesday!

Tonight is a youth temple trip--I hope all the drivers are super safe as they head to/from Orlando.

Tomorrow is the EQ/HP social at the Williams Ranch. If you are coming--bring a dessert or a side dish! It starts at 2:00pm. All sisters are invited.


The first Tuesday in December (December 1) is our Enrichment--it's right around the corner!

Brittan

Upcoming Events:

Friday October 23rd: Millennial Day--Orlando Florida Temple! Join in this great endeavor to break all the records for # of Endowments performed in 1 day! Check in the Kitchen to volunteer to help the Stake R/S Presidency distribute over 1200 Hotdogs to Temple Patrons.

Trunk Or Treat is Coming up next Friday (October 30th). It's at the church. There will be a Chili Cook off and a Pumpkin Carving Contest! There is also a Haunted house. Everyone is supposed to come in costume too!

Relief Society Manual for 2010

This book provides an overview of gospel principles. It was revised in 2009. It is used for personal study and for the Gospel Principles class during Sunday School. In 2010 and 2011 it will be used for Melchizedek Priesthood and Relief Society instruction on the second and third Sundays of each month.

Wow! We are Busy!

Tonight is the adult session of stake conference. I hope you are going! Tomorrow we are supposed to watch Stake Conference from our ward building @ 10am.

REPORT VISITING TEACHING TODAY!! (Take your zone leaders phone number in the car w/ you and call them on your way to stake conference!) Get your September visiting teaching done early :)

Next Tuesday, September 1st is our Enrichment. Everyone in the entire ward should have received a postcard invitation. Thrifty Fashions is our theme. Bring clothes that are in good shape--EARLY--so that we can have them on display for other sisters to try on and take home.

The last Saturday in September is the R/S Broadcast. It will be available at church @ on BYU TV. We are hoping to have at least 1 sister open their home per zone for the sisters to gather and watch the broadcast. Contact the R/S presidency if you can do this.

Two Big temple days in October:

Oct 2nd: 6:30 Baptisms, Confirmations, and Sealings
Oct 23rd: 2-8pm Veil Assignments & Endowments (Project Millennial)

Contact Sister Treadway if you need help preparing your Family Ordinance Requests for these special trips.

Our Blessings in a Backpack project has started. Remember we are donating: Spaghetti O's (pop tops); Juicy Juice boxes, Fruit Roll Ups; Granola Bars--bring them to the church. We are also working from 9-11am on the 2nd Tuesday of October, November, and December to stuff the backpacks and get them to the kids at Hernando Elementary. Contact your R/S presidency if you are interested in helping.

Zone 4 MOVIE Social

 

 

Here is a picture of the Zone 4 social. The Inverness sisters gathered at Sister Williams's house and watched a Mormon comedy. We had lots of movie treats and had a good time!

Thanks sisters for supporting the visiting teaching effort in Zone 4!

September Enrichment

I got 100 postcards in the mail today for the September Enrichment. We will be passing them out on Sunday. Hopefully I'll get 100 in the mail tomorrow. Check w/ your zone leaders and get them mailed to your sisters ASAP!!!

Brittan

Lesson Schedule

Aug 09 2009 Chapter 38: The Wentworth Letter
Aug 16 2009 Chapter 39: Relief Society: Divine Organization of Women
Aug 23 2009 TFOT - Temple Worship: The Source of Strength and Power in Times of Need - Elder Richard G Scott
Aug 30 2009 Stake Conference

Announcements

Upcoming events:

***There will be a couple of sign up sheets in R/S this week.
1) The backpack project (2nd Thursday of each month to stuff backpacks)to feed hungry elementary school children in our county
2) For the adult session of stake conference (carpool, babysitting, and attendance)

Other upcoming events:

Enrichment, Tuesday September 1st at 6:30 "Thrifty Fashions" We will be distributing postcards to the visiting teachers to mail out to their sisters.

Zone 2 (Crystal River) Zone Social--Saturday, September 5th--details coming!

General R/S Broadcast is Saturday September 26th

We have lots of PSI's for September including:
Wade, Kowalczik, Gidden, Rowe, Karen Ellis, Horace, Basore, O'Brien, Kanis, Cody, Rhames, Thomposon, Stromquist, Kelly Ellis, Wissler) Watch for emails, postcards, and other confirmations of times/places!

Zone 4 Social is coming up (and other announcements)

We are printing postcards for the Zone 4 Social. The sisters that live in Inverness, Floral City, and some from Hernando are in Zone 4. Here's a copy of what it will look like. We will probably have it Mid-July for the Zone 4 sisters to pass out to the sisters on their route.

The Zone 4 changes have been made and mailed. Please do your new routes in July.

Zone leader reports are due to Connie this Sunday!

The Whitman Funeral is Wednesday at 3pm in Inverness. Call Sister Mitchell if you want more details.

There will be sign up sheets for desserts and side items for Pioneer Day in the R/S room.

more pictures

 

Pictures from our game-playing Enrichment

 

Thanks for all the sisters that participated in our Enrichment on Tuesday night! We had about 30 sisters playing games and 15 sisters working as staff! I ate some of the yummy granola for breakfast today! Sheri Frickey also went into labor just a few hours after getting home from Enrichment! All that horsing around really worked, and she had a little boy on Wednesday afternoon! We are going to post some pictures on the bulletin board at church too!

Announcements

* Tonight is Enrichment
* There are some visiting teaching changes for June--so watch out for the new routes! Your zone leaders will have copies of the changes, and many of the route changes will be put in the mail.

* There will be a sign-up sheet for the June 13th Canning Trip (http://www.providentliving.org/pfw/multimedia/files/pfw/pdf/120974_HomeStoragePriceSheetSpring2009_pdf.pdf) is the order form.

We will meet at the church at 6:15 am for carpool and at the MC D's in Inverness at 6:30am. Let Kim Fulford know that you will be meeting her for carpool (352-527-3893)

* June PSI's are this Sunday 06/07/09
Sunday @ 9:15am (Yost, Burkett, Whitman) @ 9:30am (Emann, Simmons, Ward)

Ed Hunt

I have an address and phone number for Brother Ed Hunt. He is in the VA Bay Pines Hospital in Pinellas County.

The information will also be posted on the bulletin board at church.

Email me at brittanmitchell@gmail.com and I'll get you the information!

Recent Updates

**I added a link to the LDS catalog for the purchase of basic food storage (see left hand column, scroll down)

**Sister Kowalczik and Sister Romney accepted callings in Relief Society. Sister Kowalczik is our new Home, Family, and Personal Enrichment Leader and Sister Romney is our Children's Class Supervisor!!!

**Zone leaders have the invitations for our June Enrichment. Everyone is invited, even if they don't get the invitation, but the invitations are hopefully going to reach all the sisters in our ward! Our visiting teachers will be helping in the distribution, so when you get your postcards--please get them in the mail--ASAP!

**The Youth Car wash is Saturday May 30th in Crystal River (Wendy's on Hwy 19)

**The youth temple trip is this Friday. If you have family baptisms to do, please get the information to either Brother/Sister Barker.

**Robyn Kanis is working to put together a food storage order from some of the commercial food storage warehouses. If you want to join in with her in an effort to reduce overall shipping costs, please get with her soon. She can let you know which establishment and the deadlines for the orders!

Free CPR class

Description: Nature Coast EMS and the American Heart Institution are presenting a free friends and family CPR class.

Class Date: 05/19/09
Fee: FREE

Contact No: (352) 249-4700
Offered by: EMS


Betty Fisher let us know about this neat opportunity in the community! If you are interested you should check it out!

Special Sunday May 31

Remember all sisters will be attending R/S on May 31st.

This is the 5th combined Sunday . . . so the priesthood will be covering the youth/primary--and the sisters so that the sisters can come to the combined instruction by the Bishop!

Visiting teaching in April

73% visiting teaching in April!

Thanks sisters for your hard work--73% is our highest number as of recent months . . . so we are doing better!!!!!

PSI information

We do a PSI for each sister during the month of their Birthday. This is a chance for us to learn about how you are doing w/ your visiting teaching! We put the information in the newsletter, in email reminders, and we usually send out information by mail too! If it's your birthday look for the following POSTCARD in the mail--as it will have your PSI information on it!

A neat quote from April General Conference

Special Event

There will be a special broadcast on Friday, May 8th for all Young Women ages 12 and up and all adult sisters at the Orlando South Stake Center. The broadcast will originate from South Carolina and will feature Sister Julie Beck, the Relief Society General President and Sister Mary Cook, 2nd Counselor in the Young Women's General Presidency. The broadcast will only be available at the above location and will begin at 7:00pm. Parking may be tight, so please plan to arrive early.

June Enrichment is right around the corner

We will be mailing and/or passing out invitations during church! Here's the invitation--even if you don't get a hard copy--ALL sisters are invited!

We also hope you'll bring a friend--we love the company!!!!

May PSI's

05/03/09 Sunday
9:15am R. Cole; R. Smith
9:30am J. Romney & N. Goodenow

05/06/09 Wed.
6:45pm B. Mitchell, J. Henry
7:00pm D. Waters, S. Frickey, D. Ames

Citrus Chronicle Article

By Nancy Kennedy

By 9 a.m. Saturday, the Family Resource Center building in Hernando was well on its way to getting a much-needed facelift.

About 70 volunteers, from youths and adults from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Lecanto to some homeless people from the area, came together as part of “The Helping Hands and Linking Arms Project,” organized by Elder Walter González, who presides over LDS church affairs for the southeastern United States.

The goal of the day of service was to bring LDS church members and community groups together to serve their common communities.

“There’s a total of 550 projects going on today across the southeast, and this is just one of them,” said Douglas Carter, stake president.

Each local congregation is called a ward, with about eight wards in a stake. The local stake encompasses Citrus, Lake and Sumter counties.

Carter said approximately 88 stakes (between 600 to 700 wards) were involved in the mass day of service.

Some of the other projects included: food and blood drives; distributing food, blankets and clothing to the homeless; landscaping an old cemetery; park clean up, health fairs and even taking kids with special needs fishing.

“They estimate this day covers 250,000 volunteer hours from 35,000 church members and 17,000 nonmembers,” Carter said.

For 15-year-old Shelby Fulford, it meant painting with her friends from church.

“We have a service project once a month,” she said. “We do things like going to people’s houses to clean behind their refrigerators or clean up the roads around our church.

“We come here (to the Family Resource Center) every Christmas and wrap presents. That’s my favorite,” she said.

For church member Heather McLeod, this day brought back nostalgic memories.

“I grew up here — went to school here for first and second grade,” she said of the Historic Hernando Elementary School where the Family Resource Center shares space with other community organizations and groups.

Currently a teacher at Inverness Primary School and a church member, McLeod said it felt good to be able to do something meaningful for the families who are served by the center.

“One of the main reasons this is being done right now — this side of the building that they’re painting had started to peel,” said Ginger West, director of the resource center. “The day care depends on the building looking nice for their accreditation, so we’ll do anything to keep our day care, because that is an important, important group. It’s the birth to (age) 3 Head Start group, and that allows moms to be able to work so they can support their families so they don’t end up being homeless.”

West said this isn’t the first time she’s benefited from the local LDS church members.

“They’ve always been helpful to us,” she said. “This is just the first time we’ve had so many all at once.”

In the past year, the church has made a concerted effort to become more involved in partnering with other churches and community agencies to better serve the community.

Last Thanksgiving, the church donated $8,500 worth of food from the Bishop’s Storehouse to help the New Church Without Walls and other agencies feed the hungry in Citrus County, plus another $30,000 worth of food at Christmas was distributed to the hungry in Citrus, Lake and Sumter counties.

“We’ve tried really hard to involve partner organizations outside the church to foster a community atmosphere and have the community work together,” said Carter. “When we work together in a unified way, we’re able to get a lot more done.”

There were pictures of some of the primary kids that participated. The entire article with the pictures is available at http://www.chronicleonline.com/cgi-bin/c2.cgi?071+article+News+20090426203527071311

Upcoming Lesson Schedule

May 03 2009 PH/RS Duties and Responsibilities

May 10 2009 Chapter 32: Responding to Persecution with Faith and Courage

May 17 2009 Chapter 33: The Spiritual Gifts of Healing, Tongues, Prophecy, and Discerning of Spirits

May 24 2009 TFOT - The Way - Elder Lawrence E Corbridge

May 31 2009 Combined PH/RS - Bishopric Instruction

Come Paint your Heart out at our Hernando Day of service!!!

Just remember to silence the music on the IPOD at the bottom if you want to watch a video!!!

Video from day of service

Day of Service Pictures

For a video on YOU TUBE: Please go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBxJIZ66lv4

Day of Service Pictures

Day of Service Updates

****We are going to prepare the lunches for the Day of Service at the Family Resource Center--and NOT the church. The newspaper will be there and members from the stake--so it was decided that we needed to do everything at the Family Resource Center. We want everyone to be a part of this day of service. Lunch duty still begins at 9am (while the painting duty begins at 8am).
Location: Corner of 486 and HWY 41. Right across from the Hernando Post Office.

Here is the information--but scroll down past this information for MORE Announcements!

Family Resource Center of Citrus County Inc
2435 N Florida Ave
Hernando, FL 34442
(352) 344-1001

Link:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Family+Resource+Center+Hernando+Florida&sll=28.836057,-82.348645&sspn=0.067368,0.154495&ie=UTF8&ll=28.902998,-82.373514&spn=0.016831,0.038624&z=15&iwloc=A


Lunch Duty Sign Up: Debusk, Beaumont, Smith, O'Neal, Fox, Pare
Painting: Treadway, Conkel, Coleman, Elliott

We are hoping for 100+ people--so please come out--even if you haven't signed up.

Remember your food drive stuff! Try to stick to the exact items requested!

Here's what we had at the church tonight: 7 packs of Fruit Juice Boxes; 8 Packs of Fruit Roll Ups; 12 Packs of Granola Bars; and 16 cans of Spaghetti O's!
This is a great start--It's enough to fill one tupperware container! Let's bring some more stuff on Saturday (participation is optional).

I will post more announcements related to Day of Service (if anything comes up) --so check your email this week.

Day of Service

LDS NEWSROOM: http://newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/news-releases-stories/hundreds-of-thousands-of-volunteers-to-provide-day-of-service-in-eleven-southern-states


Join the Facebook Day of Service Group: search for Day of Service: Lecanto, FL
or just "Day of Service"

We are trying to get the word out!!!

Day of Service

Remember to bring your food items (Spagetti O's, Fruit Roll Ups, Fruit Juice Boxes, and Granola Bars!)

If you want to watch the video below of the "prep" day--please silence the "ipod music" at the bottom of the blog (see directions below on the post from 4/12/2009).

Looking forward to seeing you on Saturday.

We have a Face Book Event posted

SEARCH: Day of Service: Lecanto, Florida

You can RSVP if you want on Facebook!

Day of Service

If you want to watch the Easter Video

I have the little IPOD of music at the very bottom of this blog . . . to play background music. TO watch the video--you have to silence the IPOD music . . .so here's what you need to do!

1) Scroll to the bottom so that you can see the Pink IPOD
2) There's a dark pink circle (in the bottom 1/2) of the IPOD--it has "buttons" on it for play/pause/FF/Rew. (etc) just like a remote for a TV.
3) I can't see the buttons--on my computer--but they are there
4) Click the bottom part of the circle (Where a 6 would be on a clock)--and that will PAUSE the music.
5) Then scroll back to the top to watch the Easter Video.

OR you can go to LDS.ORG and watch the video!

Brittan

Easter Message: Elder Holland

Sign Up Sheets

There will be several sign up sheets on Sunday!

1) Day of Service--Prepare Lunches at church (starting at 9am); Work at the Resource Center (starting at 8am).

2) If you would like to go to the Cannery on Saturday April 18th! (Morning work session)

Look for these sign up sheets in R/S if you are wanting to sign up for something!

NEW MEETING LOCATION

Remember, we are no longer meeting in the chapel for R/S. Starting this Sunday--we will be meeting in the area where Brother Branson has been teaching Sunday School!

April V/T message

Here's a really neat quote from the V/T message . . . if you want to read the entire message--just click on the Little Lamb to the left!

President Ezra Taft Benson (1899–1994): “Success in righteousness, the power to avoid deception and resist temptation, guidance in our daily lives, healing of the soul—these are but a few of the promises the Lord has given to those who will come to His word. … Certain blessings are to be found only in the scriptures, only in coming to the word of the Lord and holding fast to it. …
“… Recommit yourselves to a study of the scriptures. Immerse yourselves in them daily so you will have the power of the Spirit to attend you in your callings. Read them in your families and teach your children to love and treasure them” (“The Power of the Word,” Ensign, May 1986, 82).

I love the message this quote conveys!

Day of Service is This month

Remember we are doing a food drive for the following 4 items:

1) Spaghetti-O's POP TOP
2) Granola Bars
3) 100% Fruit Juice Boxes
4) Fruit Roll-Ups

Please start bringing these items on Sunday--as we only have a few weeks to collect these goods!

Temple/Canning Assignments

The Adult Baptism Trip is scheduled for this Friday night. Please plan on coming if you are available! What a great way to bring in the Easter Weekend! (6:30--Orlando Florida Temple)

The Newsletter announced that the April 18th Canning Trip for R/S was canceled! This is true--because the R/S presidency is tied up w/ Trek & Woodbadge! However, there is a Ward Canning assignment at the VERY same time! The Priesthood will be asked to fill this assignment--and the sisters are encouraged to go on this canning assignment too! (They assignment is from 8am-Noon)

Lesson Schedule

This week is Lesson 30: (Sumlin) "Valiant in the Cause of Christ"
Next week (April 19): 31: (Campbell): God shall be with you forever and ever--The prophet in Liberty Jail

April 26: TFOT (Forseythe): Pray Always--Bednar (October 2008 conference)--linked to the side.

The Newest apostle

The newest apostle was sustained during this last general conference . . . Neil L. Andersen! Many of you may know him because he and his wife lived and served in the Tampa Bay area!

A neat article about his feelings about being called as an Apostle . . .
http://www.ldschurchnews.com/articles/56950/Great-honor-and-responsibility-have-come-to-him.html

FREE Local CPR Class

Talk about a neat thing to do . . .

FREE CPR CLASS AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION Friends and Family CPR Course May 19th, 2009 - Three FREE Sessions Call to reserve your seat! 352-249-4750 10am, 2pm and 5:30pm Nature Coast EMS Administration and Education Building 3876 W Country Hill Drive, Lecanto, Fl 34461 One block off Hwy 44 on Hwy 490 The class is free. The Book is included.

Sisters in Zion Walking Group

The Health Section of the Citrus Chronicle will report the results each week of our walking group. Betty emailed me the results so that I could post them here on the blog. Our team is "Sisters in Zion"! Go team!

This is for the first week of the challenge!



FITNESS IN CITRUS

Community-Wide Fitness Challenge
Team Points Record
February 2 - March 9
Week 1

10,000 Steps Challenge Cumulative Totals

JUST GETTING STARTED:
Busscher 3450
Day Trippers 0
Flashers 5500
FRE Steppers 5859
Happy Hoofers 3520
Hot Steppers 4500
Living Proffers 5414
Ped Queens 1650
Salad Sisters 3489
Shane's Angels 6317
Sisters in Zion 5080
Student Services Striders 6750
Team CCRC 7525
The Spirit Is A Movin' 5811
Wanna Be Walkers 5600
Wefit 3825

GETTING THERE:
Exceptional Steppers 6000
Fiscally fit 6423
Going Places 6222
Ground Pounders 8175
Return to Yester Year 5342
Suncoast Steppers 0
Walkettes +1 5667
Yogi's 7588

Special Valentine's Day Luncheon

 

 

 

Bishop Sampson hosted a special Valentine's Day luncheon for some of the single sisters & widows in our ward. It was a very special lunch! We are so thankful for our wonderfuly thoughtful Bishop and for each of the talents that these sisters bring to our ward family! Happy Valentine's Day!!!

TV Converter box

Sister Burkett has given the R/S presidency a coupon for a TV Converter due to the digital conversion. If you know someone that could use it--please see either Sister Fulford, Conkel, or Mitchell

Thanks

Upcoming dates:

Tonight at church is a meeting for all Trek volunteers,

This Sunday (the 8th) is the V/T conference during 3rd hour.

Feb. 20th--Canning trip to Orlando Cannery. Meet in church parking lot at 4pm for carpool.

Feb. 27th--Movie/Date night (we have a new sound system). 6:30 at church

The days for all sisters to attend R/S are tentatively--we will confirm the dates as they get closer!
Feb. 8th
May 31st
Aug. 9th
Nov. 29th

"As Sisters in Zion" Walking Mini-Enrichment

Let's cheer our team members! They are trying to walk 10,000 steps per day during February!!!! They all get to participate in some neat "free" stuff on Saturdays like Jazzersize and Zumba! Go TEAM! Thanks Betty for all the encouragement and for all the information you have put together for these sisters!

Betty Fisher
Barbara Stahl
Kim Fulford
Mary Ann Conkel
Dorothy Hansen
Cyndy McIntyre
Jeneane Elliott
Lynda Speidel
Karen Ellis
Nina Sulouff
Lynette O'Neal
Palmira Simmons
Maxine Kowalczik
Nancy Thompson

Funeral update

Roger Thompson (Sandy Metzger's nephew) viewing is this Friday Feb.6th from 12-2pm and funeral at 2:00pm at Hooper's Inverness.

announcements

I am going to post the details later, but I wanted to put a few that I remembered.

Betty has started her walking group--and there are lots of neat things that go along w/ joining her group (like a free Zumba class and a free Jazzersize class). Everyone that joined (w/ an email address) has been sent an email.

There is a canning date on a Friday evening in February--we will meet at the church at 4pm and head to the cannery in Orlando. I'll post the date when I get it.

I'm also going to post the logo for Time Out for Women in March in Orlando.

The Stake R/S was there yesterday to announce the Stake R/S event on the first Saturday in March. WE are collecting clothes for Women, Children, and Babies (very good used condition). It's from 12-2pm in Leesburg.

We also want to thank Sister Stahl and Sister Fisher for their amazing service to the Relief Society!! They were both released yesterday from their callings in the presidency and we will all miss their wonderful talents!!! Sister Conkel was called as Sister Fulford's first counselor and Sister Mitchell was called as the Second Counselor.

Okay now--I have to get the kids ready for school--but I'll get to the details later!

Service Project: Youth Trek

The Youth and some of the leaders are going on a "Trek Experience" in April. We have been announcing how we are going to need sisters to help with this project. There was a meeting after church yesterday, and some of the details are starting to come together.

Here's what we need now:
1) We need to know if there are sisters w/ extra material around their house that they could donate--we will be making bonnets, aprons, skirts, etc. from this material.
2) We need a list of sisters that can sew and that can donate some time over the next 6 weeks to make pioneer clothes. (We have the patterns and the names of the youth that need help with the costumes. We are needing costumes for the Young Men and the Young Women).
3)We would also like a few sisters that are willing to "bargain shop" for good deals for the misc. items and perhaps additional fabrics.

Please email fulford83@aol.com or brittanmitchell@gmail.com if you can help in any way. There will be a meeting on Feb. 4th (time not yet determined) to coordinate all the efforts of the volunteers!

Please help the youth of this ward have an enjoyable experience that will build their testimonies!!!!

Announcements from Sunday Jan. 25

Time Out for Women information is Posted on Bulletin Board

Elder Cell Phone: 352-702-1615 (also updated in the Ward Bulletin)

Pinewood Derby is this Friday--bring toppings for the ice cream!

Gayle Treadway is doing a mini enrichment on Genealogy--she had a survey for us to fill out yesterday.

Sister Wade made an announcement about a good bean sale --call her for details.

Feb. PSI Schedule

FEBRUARY PSI’s:
Sun. Feb. 1st 9:30 am:
G. Horrocks,
P. Coates,
B. Dixon &
D. Williams


Wed. Feb. 4th 6:30pm
J. Pare',
B. Holcomb,
C. Debusk &
B. Hunt


Contact fulford83@aol.com if you have a scheduling problem!!!

Updates

Our Visiting Teaching Conference is Feb. 8th--so next week Sister Fulford will be using Lesson # 26 from the Joseph Smith manual as part of her "presidency message".

Bring your Cell Phones to the V/T conference on Feb. 8th--during the 3rd hour of church--but please make sure your phones are turned off during the meetings!

Quote from Elder Ballard

I get a weekly update from the stake, and this was the quote they used this week! I liked it so I decided to post it here! I hope you enjoy it too :)

"We need to remember that the full commitment of motherhood and of putting children first can be difficult. Through my own four-generation experience in our family, and through discussions with mothers of young children throughout the Church, I know something of a mother's emotions that accompany her commitment to be at home with young children. There are moments of great joy and incredible fulfillment, but there are also moments of a sense of inadequacy, monotony, and frustration. Mothers may feel they receive little or no appreciation for the choice they have made. Sometimes even husbands seem to have no idea of the demands upon their wives.
"As a Church, we have enormous respect and gratitude to you mothers of young children. We want you to be happy and successful in your families and to have the validation and support you need and deserve."
M. Russell Ballard, "Daughters of God," Ensign, May 2008

P.S.

I have added a music component to the blog--it takes like 30 seconds to load--so check your volume--not too loud, not too soft!

Movie Night and Christmas Cookie Exchange

January Food Storage

We did this last year--and I thought I would post them just in case sisters wanted to do it again! If you purchase these items throughout the year--at the end of the year you will have created a 3 month food supply for a family of 4.

January Food Storage Goals: Cooking Essentials

Week 1: 5 lbs Salt
Week 2: 1 lb Baking Powder & 1 lb Baking Soda
Week 3: 1 lb Yeast & 1 Box Pancake Mix
Week 4: 1 Gal. Vinegar & 2 boxes Potato Flakes
Bonus: 5 Gal. Water; Black Pepper

January Stake Reading guide

JANUARY 2009

Day Reading Assignment

1 BoM Title; Intro; Testimonies of Witnesses
2 BoM JS Testimony; Explanation
3 DC Intro; DC 1; OH Intro
4 BoM pp. 1-3
5 BoM pp. 4-6
6 BoM pp. 7-9
7 BoM pp. 10-12
8 DC 18:11-12; 19:16-20; 58:42;
9 DC 76:62-70; 88:14-18; 93:33; Alma 11:42-44
10 JS Chapter 24
11 BoM pp. 13-15
12 BoM pp. 16-18
13 BoM pp. 19-21
14 BoM pp. 22-24
15 JSH 1:1-26
16 OH pp. 1-4
17 JS Chapter 25
18 BoM pp. 25-27
19 BoM pp. 28-30
20 BoM pp. 31-33
21 BoM pp. 34-36
22 JSH 1:27-65 D&C 3; 5
23 DC 10; 17; 20:5-15 84:54-62
24 OH pp. 5-10
25 BOM pp. 37-39
26 BoM pp. 40-42
27 BoM pp. 43-45
28 BoM pp. 46-48
29 BoM pp. 49-51
30 DC 6; 8
31 DC 9; JSH 1:8-17

Hey sisters--the Holidays were crazy!

Hey, I didn't post ANYTHING during the Holidays! Sorry! Here are some recent announcements:


**PSI's for Sisters with January Birthdays-- that are also visiting teachers--are next Wednesday night--the schedule is in the newsletter.

***Sunday, Feb. 8th--is our Visiting Teaching Conference "Feed My Sheep" during the 3rd hour of church! Please make all efforts to stay for the third hour on that Sunday!!!!

**One thing that is not in the newsletter is: the 4th Tuesday of every month in 2009 will be Lecanto Ward Temple Day! See if you can make it a goal to visit the temple on this day each month!

**Sister Fulford has been working with the Cannery to schedule some dates--there will be 4 dates throughout the year. Some on Friday afternoons/evenings and some on Saturday early morning! This is a good way to keep your food storage current--while working with the sisters from our ward! Watch for these dates in an upcoming newsletter.

**We are working on our 2009 Zone Social Dates--they are being finalized right now--and will be posted next month.

**There are sign up sheets for the PINEWOOD DERBY in R/S right now!

**We are working on another "Movie/Date Night" and it'll probably be in February! We all had a blast with that last November--so we are hoping for another great turn-out!
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FITNESS CHALLENGE! 10,000 steps per day!

Betty Fisher is our team leader for a Citrus County Challenge--10,000 steps!

To participate--what you need to do is to (1) buy a pedometer (about 6 dollars), and (2) email Betty Fisher--bettyannfisher@yahoo.com-- and let her know you want to join her team. The team's name is "Sisters in Zion"! From Feb. 2nd-March 8th--you'll be tracking your steps each day! Our team will get points for meeting our goals of 10,000 steps! There are 5 attachments related to the fitness challenge! Betty will be giving us updates! We committed to 10 sisters--so --if you feel inclined to join--PLEASE email Betty! (There will also be sign up sheets at church on Sunday)!