January 2010 Meetings

Sister Julie B. Beck (Relief Society General President) – “Relief Society was organized to engage sisters in the Lord’s work and to teach them how to do that in their homes and in their personal lives. If meetings are not strengthening the faith of our sisters, if they are not helping them prepare for the blessings of eternal life, then why are they being held?” (Sept. 2009)

In following the guidance of our Relief Society general presidency and our Relief Society stake presidency our program is changing a little bit. Our activities/meetings will be held monthly on the second Tuesday of each month. (That may change occasionally as the activity or school schedules may dictate.) Each month will have a theme. We will print out Relief Society announcements each month so you will know the location and time. Most of the time we will not be in Burbank but in-town. Also you can see the announcements at http://www.pasco8reliefsociety.blogspot.com/ or call Pam Anderson or Marcie Mitchell.

January 12 @ 7:00 PM Family History is not Dead is our theme for the month. Sister Spurgeon has planned a couple of fun classes about family history that we will be having throughout the year. Our first class will be Digital Scrapbooking and will be taught by Amy Cazier. We will be meeting at her house which is on the corner of Road 76 and Dradie, just south of Argent – 2808 Road 76. You don’t already have to be an expert with digital photography or with computers to attend as we will be learning how. This is a fun way to start family history. She would like a general count as to how many will be attending so she can plan for hand-outs/seating etc. so please sign up on the sign up sheet, call Pam at 545-9101 or respond on the blog.

We will also be working on our Humanitarian quilts. Sister Andelin is heading that up and more information will be forthcoming. Rather than try to cram as many quilts into a short time and turn them in at the stake relief society meeting in September as we have previously done we have been asked to turn them in as we do them. Sister Andelin is planning some quilting meetings at her home throughout the year to tie quilts as well as you can make them on your own and give them to her to turn in.

The new Relief Society manuals, Gospel Principles, are in! If you haven’t received one yet please see someone in the presidency so we can make sure you have one. We will be using these new manuals for the next two years.