Monthly Enrichment Activity

Have you ever wondered what there is to done/see in the area and it's free. Look no longer. We have some sisters in our very own ward that "are in the know". If you haven't already signed up, Mindi W. is looking for sisters that can provide finger foods, fruits, or lemonade/punch. If you have any fun lawn games to play, Mindi would love your help/suggestions. We will be meeting by the pavillions (weather permitting) behind the church building at 6:30 - 8 pm. Childcare will be provided.

Park Play Date

We are meeting at the Thurston County Sports Complex Park at 11 am. There are picnic tables and a pavilion and plenty of grass so bring a lunch and stay a while. To get to the park take I-5 South and get off exit #111 (Marvin/Martin Rd). Turn left at the light onto Marvin. Continue past the shopping centers and turn left onto Steilacoom Rd (it's a light). The park is on your right. As you pull in you will go through the turn-about, follow it to the left. There are lots of baseball fields, drive past them and you will see the park on your right. It's a big playground and it has a walking path if you want to bring your stroller and stroll the park.

Park Play Date

Our awesome Sister Alexis N. knows some great parks that the kids can run and play while we get a chance to talk with our friends. It will be every Tuesday - close enough to Sunday to remember to go!! June 22 is at the Powderworks Park in DuPont. Across the street from Pioneer Middle School on Bob's Hollow Ln.

Eat and Greet

Come and meet the new Relief Society Presidency.

Enjoy a message about women, and why we need to stick together!

And don't forget about dessert!! (We're providing the dessert, you just need to come and eat it!!)

Tuesday, June 8, 6:30 PM at Church bldg. Childcare available.

Welcome...

Sunday our new Relief Society Presidency was called...

President-- Rachel Westhoff
First Counselor -- Jamie C.
Second Counselor -- Mindi W.
Third Counselor -- Jamie P.
Secretary -- Amy S.

Please take a minute to introduce yourself to these wonderful sisters if you haven't had the chance to get to know them yet. They are anxious to serve the sisters of our ward. Let's all find ways to help them. Hey, I know... let's make June a 100% visiting teaching month!!!

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!