Saturday, September 26, 2009
Primary Program
I should have posted this earlier in the week but sometimes life gets in the way. I want to personally thank the Primary Presidency and Teachers for the great job they are doing with all of our children. The program was EXCELLENT!!! It's always my favorite Sunday of the year and this year was no different. Statesville Ward has the best children in the world!!!!!!
General Relief Society Meeting
I hope you were all able to watch and enjoy the broadcast tonight. It is truly amazing how spiritually filled I feel after watching a broadcast from the church. Sis. Beck, Sis. Allred, and Sis. Thompson are truly called of God!! If you were not able to watch it, I hope you will be able to borrow a recording of it from another sister and/or read it in November's Ensign. A couple of interesting things said tonight are that Home, Family and Personal Enrichment Meetings will now be call simply "Relief Society Meetings" and they all emphasized the great importance of Visiting Teaching. It is a calling from God and we should all be fulfilling all of our callings but especially Visiting Teaching because it is the most personal of all callings. The less-active or inactive sisters really need us to help bring them back into the fold. What better way to do this than to valiantly do our Visiting Teaching. I will admit that I am not the best Visiting Teacher but after hearing the talks tonight, I am going to do better!!! (It's in writing now so I have to do it!!!)
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Visiting Teaching Message September 2009
Understand and Live the Gospel of Christ
2 Nephi 31:12: "Follow me, and do the things which ye have seen me do."
Sister Barbara Thompson, second counsler in the RS general presidency: "Sisters, now more than ever, we need women to step up and be strong. We need women who declare the truth with strength, faith, and boldness. We need women to set an example of righteousness. We need women to be 'anxiuosly engaged in a good cause.' We need to live so that our lives bear witness that we love our Heavenly Father and the Savior Jesus Christ and that we will do what They have asked us to do" ("Now Let Us Rejoice," Liahona and Ensign, Nov. 2008, 116).
Elder M. Russell Ballard of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles: "The plan of happiness is available to all of his children. If the world would embrace and live it, peace, joy, and plenty would abound on the earth. Much of the suffering we know today would be eliminated if people throughout the world would understand and live the gospel" ("Answers to Life's Questions," Ensign, May 1995, 23).
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2 Nephi 31:12: "Follow me, and do the things which ye have seen me do."
Sister Barbara Thompson, second counsler in the RS general presidency: "Sisters, now more than ever, we need women to step up and be strong. We need women who declare the truth with strength, faith, and boldness. We need women to set an example of righteousness. We need women to be 'anxiuosly engaged in a good cause.' We need to live so that our lives bear witness that we love our Heavenly Father and the Savior Jesus Christ and that we will do what They have asked us to do" ("Now Let Us Rejoice," Liahona and Ensign, Nov. 2008, 116).
Elder M. Russell Ballard of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles: "The plan of happiness is available to all of his children. If the world would embrace and live it, peace, joy, and plenty would abound on the earth. Much of the suffering we know today would be eliminated if people throughout the world would understand and live the gospel" ("Answers to Life's Questions," Ensign, May 1995, 23).
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