FAITH…FAMILY…RELIEF … The three purposes of Relief Society.
May Relief Society Newsletter
Dear Presidents,
Happy Mothers Day ladies!!!!!! We hope you have a wonderful day with your families.
Nothing is better than being with the ones you love.
As we are associating with and serving the wonderful sisters in our wards may we ever be mindful of the words of Sister Beck
“Do not waste effort on anything that will not strengthen the family.”
This statement is what impacted me the most during our training. I believe that we can truly simplify all that we are doing when we keep that one statement in mind.
Dear sisters we feel an ever-increasing urgency to concentrate even more on strengthening our families and homes. I believe we can best do this by strengthening our roles as mothers and wives.
When I was a young mother and had questions about being a nurturing, wise, “Mother in Zion” I would turn to my own mother, my grandmother and the older, more experienced Relief Society ladies in my ward for answers. I loved listening to them. I loved learning from them. I wanted to be like them.
I honored and revered them. I miss them all even still. I loved listening to the “Mother Education” lessons in Relief Society.
I loved hearing all of the comments from the seasoned mothers who knew. I love being surrounded by Relief Society sisters whom, as Sister Beck stated….. “Want to be strong, committed sisters with a Relief Society Heart.”
I love Relief Society. I love our Stake and I love the families who live within our boundaries. May we encourage all of our sisters, married or single, divorced or widowed to put families first in all that they do. May we be the example of that in our Sunday Lessons, our weekday Relief Society meetings and in our own lives.
I‘ll close with a quote from Sister Sheri Dew,
“Few of us will reach our potential without the nurturing of both the mother who bore us and the mothers who bear with us.”
Happy Mothers Day. Love, Lisa Hunt
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