Relief Society Extravaganza and General Relief Society Meeting

 Click the tab labeled "Extravaganza & General RS Meeting" to find information on classes, food storage preparedness, and all things related to our upcoming September meeting. There is also a link to download the packet our amazing Stake ladies have compiled on food storage preparedness so you can print it out or just look over it.

Our page for the Extravaganza will be updated and added to, so check back for all the wonderful resources we will be posting.

The extravaganza will be held on September 24th, so mark your calendars! To find out times for classes, dinner, the broadcast, and dress rehearsals for the classes, check our Extravaganza page.

We hope you all will be able to come to our Extravaganza in September. It is going to be an amazing Saturday filled with things to feed your mind, body, and soul.

Sister Beck's Talk - BYU Women's Conference - May 2011

CLICK HERE to read about/ hear quotes from Sister Beck's talk at BYU Women's Conference given in May 2011. Article in The Church News.

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Also: Click on the Best of Sister Beck at the top of the page or click below to download a handout about the "Essentials, Necessaries, Nice to do's".

CLICK HERE for the handout

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Emergency Preparedness Handouts

It took a while.... but I finally (thanks to my sweet hubby with his fabulous machine at work) got these scanned and up on Google docs. If you want a copy of the amazing set of handouts from our Stake Emergency Preparedness Training click the link to access the handouts and if you want to print, click file and print (or download original document). Warning: there are 39 pages! It's a lot of amazing and helpful information!! If you are struggling to get it to print or download to your computer, please leave a comment and I will do my best to help!

Emergency Preparedeness Handouts (39 pages)

Easter Message

CLICK HERE to watch the Easter message from LDS.org

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Relief Society's Birthday

March Presidency Message

Well, here it is March…I love March because it is always fun to see the daffodils and tulips coming up…we all know that they are a promise of Spring!  A few days ago, I went out to my mailbox and there was my Ensign…I love it when the Church magazines come, they are like getting a present in the mail! I especially enjoyed the article in the Ensign entitled, “Charity Never Faileth:” A Discussion on Relief Society.  Elder Jeffrey R. Holland and his wife Patricia T. Holland share their thoughts on the role of Relief Society. I thought I would share a few quotes from their article.

(Relief Society) “It’s not a program per se.  It is the gospel –
the gospel in action in the lives of our remarkable women.  In difficult times we realize it offers its members, and by extension the whole Church, just what we need to help us right now.”

“Relief Society is needed now more than ever before because of the challenges we face in the world today.  The women of the Church have a greater need to be righteous, to live close to the Spirit, and to be faithful.  And women need each other too, in order to keep and sustain their faith.”

“Each one of us who makes the journey down the gospel path is an individual – a daughter or a son of God.  As individual members, we must be absolutely rock solid.  No organization is going to be any stronger than its people, no home any stronger than its foundation.”

“When I think of all the blessings we as Latter-day Saints share in our temples, our wards and branches, our marriages, and our families, I realize it all comes back to how the Priesthood and Relief Society – men and women – work together in a home as well as in the Church.”

What a wonderful article, well worth reading!  I am so grateful for Relief Society and how I learn so much about the gospel, and not only that…I know Relief Society helps to strengthen my family as they see me participating in this great work.  I agree with Elder Holland when he says, “Even when our children were very young, they could recognize their mother’s devotion to the gospel and the role that a woman plays in it…It is clear from their mother’s example that our children know the crucial, exalted place of women in their lives and in the kingdom of God.”

What a blessing Relief Society is to all of us.  We thank each of you dear sisters for the wonderful examples you are, for your great faith, love, and devotion to Relief Society. We love you and pray for you always.

Love,
    Jocelyn Walker

A message from Sister Hunt

Dear Sisters,

During the past few days, many of us have been confronted with an experience or two that have made us stop and think about how prepared we are to take care of our families in times of earthly challenges. 
Many families in the Lehi area felt the tremors of 3 seperate small earthquakes within days of each other.  A few nights ago a fierce winter storm hit our area with high winds, white out driving conditions and the loss of power to hundreds of homes.  Did you feel safe in the knowledge that you were prepared to have warmth, light and food without electricity?  Are you and your family prepared with knowledge and supplies in case of a larger earthquake?

I believe that being prepared is a work in progress, something we must continue to review and apply in our daily lives.   I know that I  have many, many more things I need to do to feel that calm, peaceful feeling of being prepared.

We hope that the ward representatives that attended our Stake emergency /disaster prepardness training session in January are working closely with their individual Relief Societies and Bishops in getting their own wards better prepared in the areas taught - Shelter, Water, Sanitation and Alternative Cooking. 

I am reminded of and love the following quote by Elder Dallin H. Oaks  (May 2004 Liahona address)

"We need to make both temporal and spiritual preparation for the events prophesied at the time of the Second Coming. And the preparation most likely to be neglected is the one less visible and more difficult - the spiritual.  A 72-hour kit of temporal supplies may prove valuable for the earthly challenges, but, as the foolish virgins learned to their sorrow, a 72-hour kit of spiritual preparations is of greater and more enduring value."

How blessed we are to be able to attend our Stake Conference this Saturday and Sunday.  May we prepare our hearts and our minds to listen, hear and then act upon the great council we will receive there from our Stake Presidency and our visiting authority. May our lives continue to be blessed with faith, obedience and the determination to prepare ourselves in all things.

Love,
    Sister Hunt