Beginning November 2011, we will go to an electronic system for reporting Visiting Teaching. There are two ways you can report electronically. One is by clicking on the link on the right hand side of this page (Visiting Teaching Reporting). Or wait for the email. Visiting Teachers will receive an email from scvisitingteaching.
Here are the instructions for responding to the email: "Click on the link above. This is our new visiting teaching form. Simply enter the information for each field and press submit. Your visiting teaching is now recorded!"
For immediate needs of the sisters you visit or problems using this form, please contact Sister Bottoms.
For sisters who do not use the internet, they can still report via telephone.
Thank you for helping us move forward!
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Release of Daughters in My Kingdom
In grateful recognition of the blessing of Relief Society in the lives of Church members, the First Presidency has directed the preparation of Daughters in My Kingdom: The History and Work of Relief Society.
The teachings, stories, and examples in this history book will guide you in establishing priorities and practices in your life that will help increase faith and personal righteousness, strengthen families and homes, and seek out and help those in need.
The history of Relief Society teaches the divine identity and infinite worth of daughters of God. It is a Spirit-filled story of strong, faithful, purposeful women who have served with little public recognition.
As you study this history you will see that our Heavenly Father knows His daughters, that He loves them, that He trusts them with sacred responsibilities, and that He guides them as they fulfill those responsibilities.
You are encouraged to share the book with others. Church members of all ages may use the book as a reference in lessons, talks, council meetings, and at home.
Additional information available at www.LDS.org
The teachings, stories, and examples in this history book will guide you in establishing priorities and practices in your life that will help increase faith and personal righteousness, strengthen families and homes, and seek out and help those in need.
The history of Relief Society teaches the divine identity and infinite worth of daughters of God. It is a Spirit-filled story of strong, faithful, purposeful women who have served with little public recognition.
As you study this history you will see that our Heavenly Father knows His daughters, that He loves them, that He trusts them with sacred responsibilities, and that He guides them as they fulfill those responsibilities.
You are encouraged to share the book with others. Church members of all ages may use the book as a reference in lessons, talks, council meetings, and at home.
Additional information available at www.LDS.org
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Worth Checking Out
1: "Daughters in My Kingdom: The History and Work of Relief Society" has been completed and will be distributed to all sisters throughout the church. As soon as we receive our copies we will deliver one to each of our sisters. This resource is to be used for teaching in the home, Relief Society and in all church settings.
2. Look for changes to some Visiting Teaching routes which were needed in order to accommodate the new sisters in our Ward.
3. The Mormon Channel has been updated to bring you a variety of wonderful programs. You can listen or watch these programs via the internet. Many "smart phones" now have this capability as well. You can listen to specific Relief Society related topics!
2. Look for changes to some Visiting Teaching routes which were needed in order to accommodate the new sisters in our Ward.
3. The Mormon Channel has been updated to bring you a variety of wonderful programs. You can listen or watch these programs via the internet. Many "smart phones" now have this capability as well. You can listen to specific Relief Society related topics!
September Visiting Teaching
Strengthening Families by Increasing Spirituality
Julie B. Beck, Relief Society general president, said: “There has grown in me an overwhelming testimony of the value of daughters of God. … I have felt that there has never been a greater need for increased faith and personal righteousness. There has never been a greater need for strong families and homes.”
Sisters can help create strong homes and families as they act on personal revelation. “The ability to qualify for, receive, and act on personal revelation is the single most important skill that can be acquired in this life.Qualifying for the Lord’s Spirit begins with a desire for that Spirit and implies a certain degree of worthiness. Keeping the commandments, repenting, and renewing covenants made at baptism lead to the blessing of always having the Lord’s Spirit with us. Making and keeping temple covenants also adds spiritual strength and power to a woman’s life. Many answers to difficult questions are found by reading the scriptures because the scriptures are an aid to revelation. … Daily prayer is essential to having the Lord’s Spirit with us.”
Julie B. Beck, Relief Society general president, said: “There has grown in me an overwhelming testimony of the value of daughters of God. … I have felt that there has never been a greater need for increased faith and personal righteousness. There has never been a greater need for strong families and homes.”
Sisters can help create strong homes and families as they act on personal revelation. “The ability to qualify for, receive, and act on personal revelation is the single most important skill that can be acquired in this life.Qualifying for the Lord’s Spirit begins with a desire for that Spirit and implies a certain degree of worthiness. Keeping the commandments, repenting, and renewing covenants made at baptism lead to the blessing of always having the Lord’s Spirit with us. Making and keeping temple covenants also adds spiritual strength and power to a woman’s life. Many answers to difficult questions are found by reading the scriptures because the scriptures are an aid to revelation. … Daily prayer is essential to having the Lord’s Spirit with us.”
Monday, August 22, 2011
Super Saturday
Santa Clara 15th Ward
Super Saturday
September 10, 2011 at the Church
9 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Luncheon - At approximately 11:30 a.m. we will be having a salad buffet with rolls and desserts. Sign ups to help bring a salad or dessert will be in Relief Society, Primary, or Young Women's or contact Jan Cain (435-275-2121) if you are willing to bring something.
Nursery will be provided at the church.
Classes Include:
* Fabric Pumpkins. These are $6.00 each Contact Debbie Gourley (656-1647) for signup and further information.
* Awesome Owls. These are $5.00 each. The kids love them. Make them as unique as you are or as the person you are giving them to. Easy to do and so fun. Contact Debbie Gourley (656-1647) for signup and further information.
* Dry Erase Note Boards. These are $14.00 each for the large one. If you want to bring your own frame or an old one that we can paint, then it is only $7.00. Contact Jan Cain (435-275-2121) for signup and further information.
* Cupcake Platters. These are $1-$4 depending on size and if you want to provide your own plate and candle holder. Contact Donna Fagergren (435-656-3992) for signup and further information.
* Holiday Subway Art. These are $3.00 each for the picture and then the frame is additional depending on what you want. The only work will be if you want to modge podge it onto canvas. Contact Melissa Ord (435-628-7214) for sign up and further information.
* Memory Tiles Games (Three different games: Temples, Prophets, or Own Family Pictures). These are $5.00 per game. Contact MarChe Hindes (435-668-5742) for signup and further information.
* How to Make Cinnamon Rolls Demonstration at 10:00 a.m. (Crystal Denton) (No signup necessary)
* Assembling Humanitarian Sanitary Kits. This will be from the donations we make as a ward. Contact Marion Klinzing (435-673-7465) for further information. (No class signup necessary)
* Help Tie a Quilt for Humanitarian Service. Anyone can come and help us tie the quilt to be donated for Humanitarian Service. (No sign up necessary)
Signs ups for classes and the money is due by August 28 to the teacher so that she can have time to gather materials and be ready for the class.
Even if you don't want to make anything, we hope you can join us and just have a good time together. Please bring your neighbor!
Super Saturday
September 10, 2011 at the Church
9 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Luncheon - At approximately 11:30 a.m. we will be having a salad buffet with rolls and desserts. Sign ups to help bring a salad or dessert will be in Relief Society, Primary, or Young Women's or contact Jan Cain (435-275-2121) if you are willing to bring something.
Nursery will be provided at the church.
Classes Include:
* Fabric Pumpkins. These are $6.00 each Contact Debbie Gourley (656-1647) for signup and further information.
* Awesome Owls. These are $5.00 each. The kids love them. Make them as unique as you are or as the person you are giving them to. Easy to do and so fun. Contact Debbie Gourley (656-1647) for signup and further information.
* Dry Erase Note Boards. These are $14.00 each for the large one. If you want to bring your own frame or an old one that we can paint, then it is only $7.00. Contact Jan Cain (435-275-2121) for signup and further information.
* Cupcake Platters. These are $1-$4 depending on size and if you want to provide your own plate and candle holder. Contact Donna Fagergren (435-656-3992) for signup and further information.
* Holiday Subway Art. These are $3.00 each for the picture and then the frame is additional depending on what you want. The only work will be if you want to modge podge it onto canvas. Contact Melissa Ord (435-628-7214) for sign up and further information.
* Memory Tiles Games (Three different games: Temples, Prophets, or Own Family Pictures). These are $5.00 per game. Contact MarChe Hindes (435-668-5742) for signup and further information.
* How to Make Cinnamon Rolls Demonstration at 10:00 a.m. (Crystal Denton) (No signup necessary)
* Assembling Humanitarian Sanitary Kits. This will be from the donations we make as a ward. Contact Marion Klinzing (435-673-7465) for further information. (No class signup necessary)
* Help Tie a Quilt for Humanitarian Service. Anyone can come and help us tie the quilt to be donated for Humanitarian Service. (No sign up necessary)
Signs ups for classes and the money is due by August 28 to the teacher so that she can have time to gather materials and be ready for the class.
Even if you don't want to make anything, we hope you can join us and just have a good time together. Please bring your neighbor!
Saturday, July 30, 2011
August Visiting Teaching Message
A Society of Holy Women
This society helps us strengthen our faith and grow spiritually by giving us leadership, service, and teaching opportunities. In our service a new dimension is added to our lives. We progress spiritually, and our sense of belonging, identity, and self-worth increases. We realize that the whole intent of the gospel plan is to provide an opportunity for us to reach our fullest potential.
Relief Society helps prepare us to receive the blessings of the temple, to honor the covenants we make, and to be engaged in the cause of Zion. Relief Society helps us increase our faith and personal righteousness, strengthen families, and seek out and help those in need.
The work of Relief Society is holy, and doing holy work creates holiness in us.
This society helps us strengthen our faith and grow spiritually by giving us leadership, service, and teaching opportunities. In our service a new dimension is added to our lives. We progress spiritually, and our sense of belonging, identity, and self-worth increases. We realize that the whole intent of the gospel plan is to provide an opportunity for us to reach our fullest potential.
Relief Society helps prepare us to receive the blessings of the temple, to honor the covenants we make, and to be engaged in the cause of Zion. Relief Society helps us increase our faith and personal righteousness, strengthen families, and seek out and help those in need.
The work of Relief Society is holy, and doing holy work creates holiness in us.
Upcoming Activities
Super Saturday:
Scheduled for September 10th from 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. We will be finishing our humanitarian project on this day. Please donate humanitarian kit items. You can turn them in to any member of the presidency or Sister Klinzing. It is not super without you so please come enjoy all or part of the morning with us! If you are in need of childcare for this event please let Sister Ord know.
Book Club:
Book club reading for the summer - "The Kingdom and The Crown" series by Gerald Lund. Book club will resume in September.
Scheduled for September 10th from 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. We will be finishing our humanitarian project on this day. Please donate humanitarian kit items. You can turn them in to any member of the presidency or Sister Klinzing. It is not super without you so please come enjoy all or part of the morning with us! If you are in need of childcare for this event please let Sister Ord know.
Book Club:
Book club reading for the summer - "The Kingdom and The Crown" series by Gerald Lund. Book club will resume in September.
July Visiting Teaching Message
Come to the Temple and claim your blessings!
Sisters, we are most blessed. The Savior stands at the head of this Church. We are led by living prophets. We have the holy scriptures. And we have many holy temples throughout the world where we can obtain the ordinances necessary to help us return to our Heavenly Father.
We go first to the temple for ourselves. “The primary purpose of the temple,” explained Elder Robert D. Hales of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, “is to provide the ordinances necessary for our exaltation in the celestial kingdom. Temple ordinances guide us to our Savior and give us the blessings that come to us through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Temples are the greatest university of learning known to man, giving us knowledge and wisdom about the Creation of the world. Endowment instructions give guidance as to how we should conduct our lives here in mortality. … The ordinance consists of a series of instructions on how we should live and covenants we make to live righteously by following our Savior.”
Sisters, we are most blessed. The Savior stands at the head of this Church. We are led by living prophets. We have the holy scriptures. And we have many holy temples throughout the world where we can obtain the ordinances necessary to help us return to our Heavenly Father.
We go first to the temple for ourselves. “The primary purpose of the temple,” explained Elder Robert D. Hales of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, “is to provide the ordinances necessary for our exaltation in the celestial kingdom. Temple ordinances guide us to our Savior and give us the blessings that come to us through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Temples are the greatest university of learning known to man, giving us knowledge and wisdom about the Creation of the world. Endowment instructions give guidance as to how we should conduct our lives here in mortality. … The ordinance consists of a series of instructions on how we should live and covenants we make to live righteously by following our Savior.”
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Service Opportunity
Snow Canyon Middle School is in need of donated sewing supplies for students who can not afford to purchase them. They could use your leftovers if you have some to donate. Please DO NOT BUY anything. They appreciate any leftover items you may have.
Things they have a specific need for are:
Spools of thread
1 yard solid color fabric
1 1/2 yard fabric or
3/4 yard of two types of fabric
They need to collect these items by 3/21.
Things they have a specific need for are:
Spools of thread
1 yard solid color fabric
1 1/2 yard fabric or
3/4 yard of two types of fabric
They need to collect these items by 3/21.
Sunday, February 27, 2011
March Visiting Teaching Message
My dear sisters, how blessed we are! Not only are we members of the Church, but we are also members of Relief Society—“the Lord’s organization for women.” Relief Society is evidence of God’s love for His daughters.
To be organized “under the priesthood” gave sisters authority and direction. Eliza R. Snow, second Relief Society general president, taught that Relief Society “cannot exist without the Priesthood, from the fact that it derives all its authority and influence from that source.” Elder Dallin H. Oaks of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles explained, “The authority to be exercised by the officers and teachers of the Relief Society … was the authority that would flow to them through their organizational connection with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and through their individual setting apart under the hands of the priesthood leaders by whom they were called.”
To be organized “after the pattern of the priesthood” gave sisters sacred responsibilities. Julie B. Beck, Relief Society general president, explained: “We operate in the manner of the priesthood—which means that we seek, receive, and act on revelation; make decisions in councils; and concern ourselves with caring for individuals one by one. Ours is the priesthood purpose to prepare ourselves for the blessings of eternal life by making and keeping covenants. Therefore, like our brethren who hold the priesthood, ours is a work of salvation, service, and becoming a holy people."
To be organized “under the priesthood” gave sisters authority and direction. Eliza R. Snow, second Relief Society general president, taught that Relief Society “cannot exist without the Priesthood, from the fact that it derives all its authority and influence from that source.” Elder Dallin H. Oaks of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles explained, “The authority to be exercised by the officers and teachers of the Relief Society … was the authority that would flow to them through their organizational connection with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and through their individual setting apart under the hands of the priesthood leaders by whom they were called.”
To be organized “after the pattern of the priesthood” gave sisters sacred responsibilities. Julie B. Beck, Relief Society general president, explained: “We operate in the manner of the priesthood—which means that we seek, receive, and act on revelation; make decisions in councils; and concern ourselves with caring for individuals one by one. Ours is the priesthood purpose to prepare ourselves for the blessings of eternal life by making and keeping covenants. Therefore, like our brethren who hold the priesthood, ours is a work of salvation, service, and becoming a holy people."
Saturday, January 29, 2011
February Activities
Our theme for 2011 is “A Daughter in His Kingdom.” Thank you for the wonderful spirit you bring to our Relief Society. You are each a choice daughter of God in His Kingdom. It is our desire that by helping each other as sisters in the Gospel we can increase in personal righteousness, strengthen our testimonies and walk nearer to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
We have some unique opportunities to unite as sisters this month. We will be having a Valentines’ brunch on February 5th. Stake Conference is February 12-13th and a multi-stake Women’s Conference is February 26th. We have the chance to be uplifted and strengthened as we attend the conferences and fellowship one with another. Please invite the sisters you visit. Thank you for all you do!
We have some unique opportunities to unite as sisters this month. We will be having a Valentines’ brunch on February 5th. Stake Conference is February 12-13th and a multi-stake Women’s Conference is February 26th. We have the chance to be uplifted and strengthened as we attend the conferences and fellowship one with another. Please invite the sisters you visit. Thank you for all you do!
February VT Message
A Restoration of All Things
"Patterns of faith, testimony, and service continued in the latter-day Church and were formalized with the organization of Relief Society. Julie B. Beck, Relief Society general president, taught: “Just as the Savior invited Mary and Martha of New Testament times to participate in His work, women of this dispensation have an official commission to participate in the Lord’s work. … The organization of Relief Society in 1842 mobilized the collective power of the women and their specific assignments to build the Lord’s kingdom.” 1
We accomplish our work as we focus on Relief Society’s purposes: to increase faith and personal righteousness, strengthen families and homes, and seek out and help those in need.
I testify that Relief Society was divinely organized to assist in the work of salvation. Each Relief Society sister has an essential role to play in accomplishing this sacred work.
- Sylvia H. Allred
"Patterns of faith, testimony, and service continued in the latter-day Church and were formalized with the organization of Relief Society. Julie B. Beck, Relief Society general president, taught: “Just as the Savior invited Mary and Martha of New Testament times to participate in His work, women of this dispensation have an official commission to participate in the Lord’s work. … The organization of Relief Society in 1842 mobilized the collective power of the women and their specific assignments to build the Lord’s kingdom.” 1
We accomplish our work as we focus on Relief Society’s purposes: to increase faith and personal righteousness, strengthen families and homes, and seek out and help those in need.
I testify that Relief Society was divinely organized to assist in the work of salvation. Each Relief Society sister has an essential role to play in accomplishing this sacred work.
- Sylvia H. Allred
January VT Message
The History and Heritage of Relief Society
“Relief Society is the Lord’s organization for women.” In his capacity as a prophet, Joseph Smith organized the Relief Society on March 17, 1842. The small, diverse group at that first meeting were dedicated women, similar to Relief Society sisters today. “The youngest were three teenagers, and the oldest, a woman in her fifties. Eleven of the women were married, two were widows, six were unmarried, and the marital status of one is unknown. Their education and backgrounds varied greatly, as did their economic circumstances. Their diversity would be magnified many times as the organization’s membership continued to grow, but they were and would continue to be one.”
“Relief Society is the Lord’s organization for women.” In his capacity as a prophet, Joseph Smith organized the Relief Society on March 17, 1842. The small, diverse group at that first meeting were dedicated women, similar to Relief Society sisters today. “The youngest were three teenagers, and the oldest, a woman in her fifties. Eleven of the women were married, two were widows, six were unmarried, and the marital status of one is unknown. Their education and backgrounds varied greatly, as did their economic circumstances. Their diversity would be magnified many times as the organization’s membership continued to grow, but they were and would continue to be one.”
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