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.

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.

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.”