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Additional Meeting

Thursday, May 26th at 6:30pm

Meet at the Wilmington College Greenhouse

(by Kettering Building, on the corner of College Street and Elm Street, turn down college street and go to the end of the road, at the left will be a parking lot, greenhouses are right there)

Come ready to get dirty!

You will get to take home a nice suprize!

Stake Relief Society Conference

Be Your Own Kind of BEAUTIFUL

"For the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart." 1 Samuel 16:7

Saturday, April 30, 2011

8:45am at the stake center

Register for classes starting April 1st at www.surveymonkey.com/s/FFRTKTF

Additional Meeting Rescheduled

Be an 8 Cow Woman!

Additional Meeting is rescheduled for

Tues, Jan 25 at 7pm at the church

Babysitting is provided

See two posts below for more information.

We hope to see you all there!

Tonight's Meeting Cancelled

Due to the weather-tonights meeting is cancelled. We will let you know if it will be rescheduled. Stay home and stay warm!

Mindy

Letters to Elder Maki

Sister Maki received an email from a family where Elder Troy Maki is serving asking for friends and family to email her letters to Troy from home. She is hoping it will be a nice surprise for him for Christmas. If you would like to email her your letter she will print them off and give them to him. Her email is redrockmomma@yahoo.com put in subject line Elder Maki. Help make his last Christmas in the mission field a special one and write him a letter! Thanks!

Christmas Family Home Evening

Here is a quick FHE idea. This is fun for all ages! We have played this activity before several holidays such as Christmas and birthdays. The kids LOVE it and it's a good reminder of why we give and receive gifts. It also helps remind the children to say "thank you" when they do receive gifts.

It might be a good lesson to have after you have reviewed the story of Christ's birth found in Luke 2.

Discuss why we give and receive gifts for Christmas.
Review the story of the three Wise men in Matthew 2.
We give gifts to represent the gifts the wise men brought to the Christ child after his birth.

Matthew 2
1 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judæa in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,
11 And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense , and myrrh.

Discuss the gift of the Savior that Heavenly Father gave to the world.

John 3
16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Discuss some gifts we could offer the Savior this Christmas season such as service to others, sharing our testimonies, gratitude, etc.

Heavenly Father gave us the greatest gift we could ever receive. We should be grateful to him and grateful for all the gifts we receive for Christmas and all year long. It is important to express gratitude to each person who gives us a gift and tell them thank you.

Activity-
Give each person in the family a brown lunch bag. Take turns having one person be the receiver of gifts. Everyone else is a giver. Have each giver put some random item in the brown bag to be their gift. The receiver opens each gift one by one and must say thank you to the giver of the gift along with something they like about the gift. It is important to discuss with the family that we may not always like the gift we are given but we should always say thank you and remember why the person gave us the gift. If we are grateful, then there is always something we can find that we like about the gift. For example-it may be their favorite color or it may be something they need etc.

For example, the receiver may open up the gift to find a used toothbrush. They may say something like, "Thank you, blue is my favorite color." Or, they may open a baby rattle. They may say, "Thank you, I can use this to play with my baby sister."

The kids will get very creative in the gifts they give which makes the receiver get really creative in finding something they like about the gift!

After the activity remind the children how important it is to say thank you for each gift they receive this Christmas.

Free LDS Music Downloads

Mormon Times (Deseret News) is offering a free music download every Thursday. They keep the download up for one week and then each Thursday offer a new one. They are LDS artists and it's a great way to add to your music collection.

Go to http://www.mormontimes.com/ and you will see the featured song at the top of the page. You have to create an account and log in to download.

Relief Society Meeting
Tuesday, Nov. 16th, 6:30 pm
@ the church
(childcare provided w/ snacks only, not dinner)

Dinner of delicious soups and fresh bread provided.
Sign up to bring your favorite fall dessert.










Bring your favorite pot, can, vase, bowl, etc. to
create your own gratitude tree. We'll provide
the branches, leaves and pens to get started.











"Meet & Marvel" at our sisters!
Come and experience the M&M activity you'll love!

General Conference for Kids

Here is what we do to get the kids more involved in listening to conference (and being quiet so we can hear it too)! This is a past post from my blog. You can go there to download a conference packet and conference bingo (our favorite). We have done these things for the last few years and they are still very excited for this weekend so they can do them again. Let me know if you have any ideas for getting kids involved in conference.

http://www.solutions.memoriesbymindy.com/lds.htm

9/09
I love watching General Conference each April and October. I love being home all weekend with my family watching conference on the tv. I love having big breakfasts and soups to eat for lunch and dinner. I love hearing our church leaders give us inspired words and guidance. The one thing I didn't love was having my children cause such a ruckus that we couldn't hear much of what was going on.

In April I made a General Conference Basket for the family to enjoy. It worked very well for my three and six year old kids. I took different General Conference packets I have found on the web and customized them to what I wanted. I make one for each child. There is a photo of each Prophet and Apostle and a blank head next to it so they can color what they look like when they speak. I also have a tie on the page for them to color to match the speakers tie. I have a spot for them to write or draw pictures of what they are speaking about. At the bottom there are different things they can color if it applies to the speaker, such as if they are bald, wear glasses etc. I also have pages for other speakers who are not Prophets or Apostles including pages for the women who speak. At the end of the conference packet, I include several coloring pages, word searches and other fun things from the friend. If they finish or get tired of coloring about the speaker, they can flip to a page in the back of the packet and work on that. I bind all the pages together into a book to make it easy to flip through. The first year I printed a packet from the internet I didn't bind it and pages were flying all over the room!

I also made Conference Bingo Cards that we all really enjoyed. There are several topics on the card including prayer, faith, temples, etc. We play by covering our entire card with pieces of candy (m&m's, gummy bears, mini marshmallows etc) and as we hear someone discuss one of the topics, we get to eat the piece of candy on that square. The person who get's bingo first gets to eat the remainder of their candy!

I put the packets, bingo cards, and candy in a basket along with crayons and a few other little things for the kids to do. I have found with my kids that if you package something to look nice, for some reason they like it better. That is why I bind their books and have everything arranged nicely in the basket.