Seriously, Just Try This

Have you seen the helps available for memorizing the scripture mastery scriptures? Check this out. Click on one of the Book of Mormon scriptures. You can take out sections, you can listen to it, you can have it give you hints. Really. If you haven't memorized the scripture mastery scriptures yet, just try this. See how many you can pass off by the deadline.

Not only do we have amazing ways to assist us in memorization but the bishopric is giving us an extra week!! The new date for the pizza feast is Saturday, June 12. It will be at noon behind the church building. As long as at least one member of the family has memorized the scripture mastery scriptures, the whole family can come. (I've heard rumors of it being even more lenient than this.) Just make a sincere effort to memorize as many as you can. I absolutely believe that when we have scriptures memorized, the Holy Ghost can use them to guide us at any time. Just read 2 Nephi 32:3.

Feast Upon the Word

Time is running out! Our Ward pizza feast is on June 4. Do you have your scripture mastery scriptures memorized? If you need a list of them you can find them on the Book of Mormon bookmark found here. You can also pick one up from a bishopric member or a member of the RS presidency. Listed here are a few suggestions of ways to memorize, understand, and apply these scriptures. You can turn it into a game and make it fun!

Save & Swap

Are your closets filled with stuff you won't use anymore? Clothes your kids have grown out of but are still in great shape, that bread machine that never gets used because you'd really rather make bread by hand ;) Bring it to our Save and Swap night Tuesday, May 11 at 6:30 PM. You can dump your stuff on the tables in the cultural hall and after a lesson and discussion on couponing and ways to save money, we'll be able to look through all the things we each brought and find the thing you were planning on buying next week. Who can complain about getting free stuff?

If you have a furniture item or something that would be difficult to tote to the building, bring a picture of it and we can set that out to see if it's something someone could use.

Here's another reason to bring your things--to support the Young Women. How would we be doing that, you ask? All of the remaining items will be used for the Young Women yard sale/fundraiser.

There will be childcare available to those who need it. And of course refreshments!

April Relief Society Meeting

Instead of have several RS meetings a month, we are consolidating. Our RS meeting night will typically be the second Tuesday of the month. This month we will be taught a Love and Logic parenting class by Esther S. on April 13 at 6:30 PM. This will be held in our church building in the RS room. There will be childcare available to those who need it.

This Sunday in RS there will be a jar available where you may submit parenting questions--anonymously if you'd like--or you may email them to the RS presidency through the link in the sidebar. Haven't we all experienced this at one time or another? (I did while chasing one kid through Target with a pregnancy test in the other hand. Nice.)

Please come and get to know your RS sisters better along with picking up a few tips on parenting. Who can't use that?

Happy Birthday Relief Society!

We will be celebrating the organization of the RS on March 16 at 6:30 PM with a service auction. Please donate anything you'd like--artwork, dinners, babysitting hours, tutorial on something you know a lot about, anything you can think of. It's a fun way to get to know each other too.

Hey, something just occurred to me. When we had a service auction years ago, Sarah A. donated her time in helping me set up my first blog. That was worth every bean I earned! And look where that went. Now we have a fabulous RS blog that you all enjoy checking at least weekly! Right?

So after arriving you'll earn beans for various things (having read your scriptures, having completed your visiting teaching, stuff like that) and that's what you'll use to buy different services. This activity is sure to be a success.

Childcare will be provided. This activity is at the Bridgeport Building. You can find the map here. It's actually a couple of minutes closer to home than our usual church building. See you there!

Fort Lewis Ward Eggstravaganza

Egg hunt.

Egg roll.
Egg races.
Egg relays.
Egg toss.

Easter crafts.

Eggceptional potluck brunch.
Saturday, March 27 at 10 AM at the church.

Fairy Tales and Fantasy

Looking for a fun evening out? How about this...

Brigham Yound University Theatre Ballet presents Fairy Tales and Fantasy, March 19 at 7:30 PM at Lakes High School. Tickets are $14 and may be obtained by sending a self addressed stamped enveloped with checks made payable to:

BYU Theatre Ballet

P.O. Box 97273

Lakewood, WA 98497

Deployed Spouses Potluck

It's time for the Deployed Spouses Potluck dinner again. It will be Sunday at 4 PM at Amy S.'s house. This time we will be having pizza. Please bring any toppings you would like other than cheese and pepperoni, or you may bring a salad, drink, or dessert.

New Member Fireside

Elder Joseph W. Sitati believes that happiness comes by doing the simple things of the gospel over and over again. "I don't second-guess the counsel of our Church leaders," he says. "When I do what they ask, things always work out fine." Doing those simple things is what unites us with our Savior, he says, and "the essence of that unity begins with our families."

Elder Sitati of the Seventy will be speaking at a fireside on Friday, March 5 at 7 PM at the Tacoma Stake Center on 12th and Pearl. Due to limited seating this fireside is only for new members, investigators, and those who accompany them.

Truffles!

Need I say more? Yum! Cooking Group is tonight at Courtney M.'s house at 7 PM. Courtney is going to share her truffle secrets. Hope to see you there!