New Section on LDS.org

Sunday's broadcast encouraged each member to join in the Lord's call to missionaries of hastening the gathering of the saints.  A new section on lds.org has been set up to help us learn about "Hastening the Work of Salvation."  Click here to learn more: http://www.lds.org/training/wwlt/2013/hastening/a-new-vision?cid=HPL1P01W01031&lang=eng

RS Picnic Book Recommendations

For those of you that missed it, here are the books and authors that were recommended at the Relief Society Picnic tonight:

Katie Glazier: The Rent Collector by Camron Wright

Marge Taylor: You Are Special by Max Lucado

Connie Case: Author Jim Butcher – Codex Alera series and Dresden Files series; Author Brandon Mull – Fablehaven series and The Beyonders series; The Great and Terrible series by Chris Stewart; Author Orson Scott Card – Ender’s Game series, and others like The Lost Gate

Libby Cain: A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

Marquelle Wilkinson: Queen Noor by Susan Muraddi Darraj

Mandy Keller: The Greatest Generation (there are two volumes) by Tom Brokaw; And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini (author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns)

Eileen Gidley: Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life by Clay Aiken

Cami Evans: I Am a Mother by Jane Clayson Johnson; Better (and also the book Complicated) by Atul Gawande

Amberly Phillips: Author Studs Terkel (an oral historian), particularly the books The Good War and Hard Times; Author Erik Larson – The Devil in the White City and In the Garden of Beasts

Jan Norton: Author Harlan Coben (favorite mystery writer); Author Susanna Kearsley – characters from The Winter Sea and Shadowy Horses are unexpectedly woven together in Firebird

Laura Wilson: The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Carrie Warburton: Prayers for Sale by Sandra Dallas

Kathy Christensen: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

Kim Garcia: Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns

Lynda Richards: The Drama of the Lost Disciples by George J. Jowett

Roberta Nelson: Agent Bishop: True Stories from an FBI Agent Moonlighting as a Mormon Bishop by Mike McPheters

Linda Hoskisson: Author Anita Stansfield – Emma: Woman of Faith (about Emma Smith)

Deb Johnson: All Moms Go To Heaven – Dean Hughes

RS Picnic This Wednesday

Bring a friend and a book you'd recommend reading and come to the Relief Society Picnic on Wednesday, June 19 at 6:30pm at the Stake Center Pavilion (7155 South 540 East, Midvale, UT 84047).  Dinner will be served.

Visiting Teaching Reminder

The month is halfway over already!  If you haven't done so, track down your sisters and make appointments for visiting teaching before the end of June.  And don't forget to report that you did.

Important Church Time Change & Broadcast

President Thomas S. Monson will be giving a worldwide broadcast to all members entitled "The Work of Salvation" on Sunday, June 23 which can be viewed at the Stake Center at 4pm.

Since our church meetings end at 4pm, on June 23 we will be changing our meeting times to allow all interested members to attend the broadcast.  Instead of our 1-4pm meeting schedule, on that day only we will meet from 12pm to 2pm, with Relief Society first then straight to Sacrament Meeting.  Then we will adjourn so that you can go home to eat and prepare yourself for the broadcast and have time to get there when it begins at 4pm.

So mark your calendars and prepare to hear the prophet of God.

RS Book Group Reading List

It's not too late to join Book Group!  

Here are the books for 2013:

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Many of the books are available as free e-books.  Ask Jan Norton or Cami Evans for more details (or comment below).

We generally meet the second Wednesday of each month to discuss the book (and have some good chatting time).

What is the Midvale Stake Day of Jubilee?

In preparing for Stake Conference on January 20, 2013, President Michael J. Suhaka and his counselors pleaded with the Lord, “What can we do? What can we promise?” And the voice of the Lord was heard saying, “Redeem your families. Take them to my temples.”

President Suhaka admonished: “If you are lonely, struggling financially, sick, depressed, stuck in sin, battling addiction, whatever, and praying, ‘Lord, help me!’ I have given you the answer.  If you think, ‘I don’t have time,’ then don’t ask for help anymore! Put your head down and do it by yourself.  But if you want to see the hand of the Lord in your life, redeem your family; take them to the temple.”

In the Old Testament we learn of the year of jubilee, which symbolized a time of freedom and celebration.  As a stake, we will have a Day of Jubilee where we plan to join together and do 1,000 family file temple ordinances in the Jordan River Temple in one day.  We will fill the temple from morning till night in redeeming our families.

The Day of Jubilee has been set for Wednesday, September 4, 2013.

Each member of the stake has been asked to do personal family history work and find one name within your own ancestral line to take to the temple on the Day of Jubilee.   President Suhaka promised that “as you reach out and take the Lord’s invitation to answer the pleas of ‘help me,’ and redeem your families, you will feel a deliverance.  You will feel a power.  You will feel a redemption.  It may not come how you want it, but it will come in the way the Lord intends it.  Psalm 81:7 says, ‘Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder…’ That secret place is His House, the temple of the Lord. Go there and hear His voice.”

President Suhaka asked the Lord if he could seal this promise upon us, and He said yes.  “In the name of Jesus Christ and through the keys of His Melchisedek Priesthood, I seal upon every family, every man, every woman, and every child, the promise that there will be a deliverance of your pleas of ‘Help Me!’ if you will redeem your family and take them to partake of this Day of Jubilee and put aside everything that we have that day and offer up a sacrifice.”

If you cannot find a name in your family line, do what you can to redeem your family.  Take steps to hold a temple recommend, record your personal family stories, help others go to the temple, and do your best to work on family history. 

Book Group this Wednesday

The Relief Society Book Group will meet to discuss this month's book "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell this Wednesday, June 12 at 7pm at the church.  Please come even if you didn't read the book--it's always good to see your face!

Announcements

(TOMORROW) Saturday, June 8 @ 10am -  Cooking Crepes @ Lynda Richards' home.

Wednesday, June 12 @ 7pm—Book Club in the Relief Society Room.  "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell.

Wednesday, June 19 @ 7pm—RS Picnic @ Stake Pavilion.  Bring a favorite book to share & tell a friend!

Saturday, June 22 @ 9:30am - Active Shooter Awareness Course at the church.  Contact Marquelle Wilkinson for details.

(IMPORTANT!) Sunday, June 23 @ 12 noon—Our ward church services will start an hour earlier than normal.  RS will start at noon & then Sacrament Meeting, which will let out at 2pm.  This will allow you to go home to eat before the Worldwide Broadcast.

(IMPORTANT!) Sunday, June 23 @ 4pm—Special Worldwide Broadcast “The Work of Salvation” @ the Stake Center by President Thomas S. Monson.

Sunday, June 30 @ 1-4pm—Ward Conference

Saturday, July 6 @ 10am—Cooking @ Lynda Richards' home

Wednesday, July 10 @7pm—Book Club in RS Room. “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" by John Boyen

Challenge - Missionary Experience

In Relief Society on Sunday, Marquelle Wilkinson taught from D&C 88:73 and invited each of us to pray for missionary experiences this week that we might help the Lord in his work of salvation.  She asked us to report about these experiences here on the blog, so comment below!