Refreshments Needed

We need women to bring desserts to the upcoming Tools of the Carpenter Fireside on Sunday at 6pm.  We are hoping to stick to cookies or other desserts that wouldn't require utensils.  If you are able to help, please contact a member of the Relief Society Presidency.  Thank you!

Announcements

This week:

• This week's Book of Mormon reading assignment is Mosiah 3-7. 


• Sunday's Relief Society lesson will be Chapter 17, "Sealing Power and Temple Blessings" from the Joseph Fielding Smith manual.


• Saturday, September 27: General Women's Broadcast and potluck dinner at the stake center.  Dinner at 5pm and broadcast at 6pm.  Ladies ages 8 and up are invited to attend.


• This Sunday (September 28) will be Fast Sunday, since the first Sunday in October will be General Conference.


• Sunday, September 28 @ 6pm: "Tools of the Carpenter" fireside at our ward building, combined with the 4th Ward.  There will be Primary activities for children so all adults can attend.  (Note the time on this was incorrect in last week's email. The fireside will be at 6pm, not 7pm.)

Coming Up:

• Our Gospel Doctrine Sunday School has been split into two smaller classes.  One class will be taught by Mike Orullian and Libby Cain and the other class will be taught by Mitch Hall and Cami Evans on alternating weeks.  So after Relief Society on Sundays, please remember to go to one of the rooms in the southeast corner of the building or you will inadvertently attend youth Sunday School who will now meet in the RS room during the second hour of church.

• General Conference will be October 4 & 5.  Tickets to attend sessions at the Conference Center are available through the ward mission leader. They are reserved first for less active members, recent converts, or investigators, so take your neighbors!  

• This year's stake Day of Jubilee for attending the temple together has been set for Wednesday, December 3.  More details will be coming.

Announcements

This week:

• Remember, there will be no regular church meetings this Sunday, September 21!

• Instead, please attend one of the dedicatory sessions of the Ogden Utah Temple that will be broadcast to our stake center on September 21 at 10am, 1pm, and 4pm.  Take your recommend and a white handkerchief.

• This week's Book of Mormon reading assignment is Jarom 1 through Mosiah 2. 

• At the end of Aimee Seal's Relief Society lesson on Sunday, she gave us each a challenge.  If you have children, write them each a letter letting them know what you love about them and bear your testimony.  If you don't have children, write to your parents.  If you don't have children or living parents, think of a family and do service for them this week.

• President Suhaka gave a talk in Sacrament Meeting urging everyone to look at your temple recommend and not only make sure it is current but to make sure you are using it regularly to attend the temple.  He challenged us to attend the temple at least once a month and to specifically find a time to go this week.

Coming Up:

• Our Gospel Doctrine Sunday School has been split into two smaller classes.  One class will be taught by Mike Orullian and Libby Cain and the other class will be taught by Mitch Hall and Cami Evans on alternating weeks.  So after Relief Society on Sundays, please remember to go to one of the rooms in the southeast corner of the building or you will inadvertently attend youth Sunday School who will now meet in the RS room during the second hour of church.

• Saturday, September 27: Worldwide Women's Broadcast and potluck dinner at the stake center.  Dinner at 5pm and broadcast at 6pm.  A nursery will be provided.

• Sunday, September 28 @ 7pm: "Tools of the Carpenter" fireside at our ward building, combined with the 4th Ward.  

• General Conference will be October 4 & 5.  Tickets to attend sessions at the Conference Center are available through the ward mission leader. They are reserved first for less active members, recent converts, or investigators, so take your neighbors!  

• This year's stake Day of Jubilee for attending the temple together has been set for Wednesday, December 3.  More details will be coming.

September Newsletter

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Looking for a Part-time Job?

The employer of Suzan Bennett in the Union fort 6th Ward is hiring people to drive deaf and blind children to and from school in a van.  No special drivers license is needed.  The job is part time during the school year "Sept - May", summers off.  It would roughly be four hours a day.  You can not have a criminal record and are required to have clean driving record.  They also need substitutes.  It's the perfect little job to keep you out of trouble. Suzan says "I love working with the children and for the company!"  Call Novella at 801-301-9555.

Relief Society Presidency Change

Cami Evans has been released as our Relief Society First Counselor.  She will now be serving as a Sunday School teacher.  And now we welcome Karen Erickson as our new Relief Society First Counselor!

Announcements

This Week: 

*What a great Stake Conference!  We hope you were able to attend and feel the Spirit there.  Each family was given the following handout that contains the inspired stake, ward, and individual focus and goals for the next several years.  Look for these at church if you didn't get one yet!

Hastening the Work in our Stake

*If you haven't already started reading The Book of Mormon with us as a ward, it's time to jump in and get caught up!  This week we are reading 1 Nephi chapters 10 through 14.

*As a fundraiser for Girls Camp this summer, the Young Women in our ward are hosting a car wash in the parking lot of RC Willey THIS Saturday, June 28th.  See flyer for details:

Looking Ahead:
 
*July 5 will be our next ward temple night.  (They will be once a month on the Saturday evening prior to Fast Sunday.)  Meet at the Jordan River Temple at 7:00pm and attend the 7:30pm endowment session or perform another ordinance.

*July 10-12 is Ward Youth Conference.

*July 24 (Pioneer Day) at 8am will be Bishop's Pancake Breakfast in the church parking lot.

*The week of July 28 is YW Girls Camp.

Announcements

This Week:

*Under the direction of our new bishopric, last week we started to read The Book of Mormon together as a ward over the course of the next year.  If you read about a page and a half each day, you will stay on track.  As of today you should be through 1 Nephi chapter 5.  This week's assignment is to read chapters 6-9 in 1 Nephi.  You may want to print out the following reading chart and color in the chapters as you go to check your progress:

*The Lutui family is moving out of the ward and closer to Butler Middle School this week.  They will be missed!!  Vai will be out of town with work, so Heather and her daughter Lexie will be doing the move themselves.  If you can help them move this Tuesday evening, please let a member of the Relief Society Presidency know.

*You are cordially invited to attend the Midvale Fort Union Stake Conference to be held on June 21st and 22nd of 2014.  Stake Conference is an exciting opportunity to gather together to receive counsel and guidance from our Stake leaders, Bishops and other invited speakers. Our focus in this Conference will center on how we can "Hasten the Work of Salvation" by coming closer personally to our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, and our Eternal Father in Heaven. Our stake presidency has promised that as you make the effort to attend these meetings, you will feel our Heavenly Father's love for you. Please take this great opportunity to gather together as friends and members of the Savior's Church to learn, feel the Spirit of the Holy Ghost, and enjoy the association one with another.

The sessions of Stake Conference will be as follows:

• Saturday Evening Session, 6pm: All youth (12 and older) and adults are invited to attend.
• Sunday Morning Priesthood Leadership Session, 7am
• Sunday Morning General Session, 10am: All stake members are invited and encouraged to attend.
• Tuesday Evening Stake Temple Night: A special chapel session will be held in the chapel inside the Jordan River Temple at 7:00pm, immediately following the 5:00pm endowment session. Speakers will be members of the stake presidency and temple presidency. In order to attend the chapel meeting, please attend the 4:30pm or 5:00pm endowment sessions, the 5:30pm sealing sessions, or begin the initiatory between 5:30pm and 6:00pm.

All sessions will be held at the Stake Center, 7155 South 540 East, Midvale, Utah. Additionally, the Sunday Morning General Session will be broadcast through close circuit transmission to the Northwest Chapel at 6770 South 500 East.


Looking Ahead:

*As a fundraiser for Girls Camp this summer, the Young Women in our ward are hosting a car wash in the parking lot of RC Willey on Saturday, June 28th.  See flyer for details.

*July 5 will be our next ward temple night.  (They will be once a month on the Saturday evening prior to Fast Sunday.)  Meet at the Jordan River Temple at 7:00pm and attend the 7:30pm endowment session or perform another ordinance.

*July 10-12 is Ward Youth Conference.

*July 24 (Pioneer Day) at 8am will be Bishop's Pancake Breakfast in the church parking lot.

*The week of July 28 is YW Girls Camp.

Announcements

This Week:

*Make your visiting teaching visits and report on how your sisters are doing to your supervisor or to Kathy Christensen (801-599-9766 / christensen.kathy@ymail.com).

*The bishopric has asked us to start reading The Book of Mormon together as a ward over the next year.  That equates to about 1.5 pages per day.  So by next Sunday (June 15), we should be in 1 Nephi chapter 5.  (Check out ldsscripturetools.com to make a reading schedule.)

*If you are planning to go to the Richards' cabin in Hobble Creek this weekend for our cooking class/camping sleepover, please RSVP to Lynda ASAP (801-604-6626) and pay her $5/person by this Wednesday (includes dinner Friday and all three meals Saturday).  We will be meeting on Friday at the church at 6pm to caravan together to the cabin.

*Lunch Bunch is still on for Saturday at noon at the Landmark Grill.

*The Primary Talent Show is Saturday, June 14 at 1pm at the church.  Come support the little cuties and their adorable talents.

*The Jordan River temple is closed for maintenance from June 9 through June 23, so plan to attend another temple if you would like to go in the next couple weeks.

*Next Sunday, June 15 is Father's Day.

*The elders serving in our ward are in need of new housing.  If you know of someone with available space (they need their own entrance and living areas, such as a basement apartment, and cannot live with a single sister or someone with young daughters), please contact Martin Evans at 801-616-1387.

Looking Ahead:
 *Thursday, June 19 is Stake Lagoon Day.  Look for pamphlets with discount tickets on the tables by the clerk and bishop's offices.
 
*Stake Conference will be June 21 and 22.  There will be an adult session on Saturday at 6pm for those 12 years old and older, and the general session will be Sunday at 10am at the stake center (7155 South 540 East).  There will also be a stake temple night associated with the conference.  PLEASE know that this stake conference has been in the works with stake leaders, area authorities, and all the bishoprics in the stake for the last three months and will set up the goals and work for the stake for the next several years.  Don't miss it!!

*The Young Women are doing a Car Wash fundraiser for Girls' Camp at the church on Saturday, June 28.

*July 5 will be our next ward temple night.  (They will be once a month on the Saturday evening prior to Fast Sunday.)  Meet at the Jordan River Temple at 7:00pm and attend the 7:30pm endowment session or perform another ordinance.

Picnics in the Park

Upcoming Ward Block Party

Hey ladies! If you haven't already put it on your calendar, make sure you are ready to come to the Ward Block Party on Saturday, May 31 at 4pm at Tara Circle.

Everyone is invited to kick off the summer and meet your neighbors.  The bishopric is providing the meat and drinks; the men are bringing condiments; and us ladies were asked to bring sides and/or desserts. (Please sign up on Sunday or let us know if you can help with that!) 

There's a rumor that there will be a bounce house for the children with the youth supervising them so the adults can enjoy the party. There will be Kubb (click here to learn more), Bocce ball, and other outdoor activities. Reply to this message if you have questions or suggestions for some (maybe not so manly) outdoor activities. 

Bring your friends and come have a good time!  :)

May Newsletter

Enjoy the May Relief Society Newsletter!

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Stake Women's Meeting - Saturday, April 26

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April Newsletter

Check out what's happening this month with our April Relief Society Newsletter:

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Ladies Night Out next Wednesday

Enrichment Invite

There's something in General Conference just for you!

Please take two minutes to watch THIS video about General Conference and refresh your mind on what you can do to prepare and enjoy the sessions coming up this weekend.

"If we teach by the Spirit and you listen by the Spirit, some one of us will touch on your circumstance, sending a personal prophetic little epistle just to you.” —Elder Jeffrey R. Holland

Attend Your Caucus Meetings!

We have received counsel from the First Presidency to attend our local caucus meetings.  Whether you consider yourself political or not, the voice of the Church is not being heard. President Suhaka has told us to consider this a calling and to take it seriously.  No other meetings should be scheduled this Tuesday or Thursday nights to allow as many people as possible to go to the caucus meetings.

Democratic Caucus:
(TONIGHT) Tuesday, March 18 @ 6:30pm
Canyon View Elementary
3050 Bengal Boulevard (7800 S.)
Cottonwood Heights, UT 84121

Republican Caucus:
Thursday, March 20 @ 7:00pm
Bella Vista Elementary
2131 S. 7000 E.
Cottonwood Heights, UT 84121

For more information, go to vote.utah.gov

March Newsletter

I apologize for posting this so late in the month, but here is the March Relief Society Newsletter.  Please put the second page to good use and go visiting teaching!

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This Weekend

Just a reminder that Stake Conference will be held on Saturday, March 8, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. and Sunday, March 9, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon.   The Saturday night meeting will be held in the Stake Center, 7155 South 540 East and the Sunday morning session will be held in the Stake Center and also broadcast to the Northwest Building (6770 South 500 East). Presiding Area Authority, Peter F. Evans will be participating in conference sessions and will bring his wonderful spirit to us all.  You will be greatly blessed and your testimony will be strengthened as you participate fully in the Stake Conference meetings.  

All members, non-members, neighbors and friends in the Stake are welcome.  All adults and the youth, ages 12 and over are especially invited to attend the Saturday evening session. Please invite those whom you visit teach to go with you to both sessions.  

Also want to remind you that the Stake will be collecting baby formula and diapers (sizes 1,2, 5 and 6) for the Midvale Road Home Shelter during Stake Conference.  You can bring your donated items to the Stake Center or the West building, and leave them in the boxes by the doors.  Thanks in advance for your participation in this great service opportunity where we can help those right in our own community.  

Finally, we will be changing to Daylight saving time on Saturday night so don't forget to set your clocks forward 1 hour before you go to bed Saturday night.  If you don't, you will miss the 1st hour of the Conference session on Sunday morning  

Hope to see you this weekend!  

With Love, 

The Union Fort 3rd Ward Relief Society Presidency

Room for Rent in the 6th Ward

ROOM for RENT:

"I am a widow and live a lone with a large home. Would like a compatible college-age student or a full-time employed lady to rent a large bedroom and full bath, with large closet. Flat screen TV with Comcast; washer & dryer are available, garage can be shared with my car, gated community, very private." 

Please contact Carolyn Wagstaff @ 801-233-6622 or 801-824-2952. 

This is from the stake RS, and the lady lives in the 6th ward.

More Wisdom from President Suhaka

Notes from the talk by our stake president, President Michael J. Suhaka at our Ward Conference Sacrament Meeting on January 19, 2014:

Romans 15:13 says, “Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost."  

Paul refers to God as “the God of hope.”  What a wonderful name!  Heavenly Father is the God of hope, the God of everything’s going to be okay.

May I suggest three things we can do or change in our lives, so that He can be a God of Hope to us:

1 – Stop looking at him so much as God.  But think of him as a dad—and not just any dad—but the best possible dad ever.

Some people think he is standing over us, just waiting for us to mess up and fall down.  Some people think of God as the coach on the sidelines watching us meticulously and just waiting to step in and call us out on our mistakes.  But that’s not how he is!

In one of the last moments of Christ’s life, he testified that God is our dad.  As he hung on the cross, he cried out, “Abba!” which means “Papa!” or, from the lips of a child, “Daddy!”

If Christ’s mission was to help us understand God, and if his last reference to Him in this life was “daddy,” then what is he trying to teach us?

My younger brother shared a story from when he was in school.  At lunch in the cafeteria, there were kids who would grab a dessert at the front of the line, eat it as they got their food, then hide the wrapper when they got to the registers and they would get a free dessert!  So one day he decided to try it, but he got caught.  He was sent to the office and the punishment for stealing was being kicked out of school for two days.  So they called his mom, and she picked him up, took him home, put him in his room and told him to wait until his father got home.  This was at mid-day and his dad was at work, so he thought he would be waiting several hours for dad to get home.  But just a few minutes later there was a knock at the door and in came dad.  And just at the moment when a swift punishment could have come, this is what our father chose to do.  He sat by his son on the bed, put his arm around him, and said, “Well, as long as you’re going to be home for two days, we might as well spend some time together.  What would you like to go and do?”  In that moment, he was a perfect dad.  That is what our Father in heaven is like for us all the time.

A few mornings ago, I was still in bed when the door opened.  And there was my youngest son, our toddler whom we just love so much.  And he stood there waiting.  So we looked at him and he looked at us, then finally my wife said, “Come here and get up on the bed!”  And he smiled big and came and climbed up on the bed with us.  But I wondered—what was he waiting for?  I think sometimes we are that way with God.  We get all the way through the door, and then we stand there waiting.  Maybe we’re waiting for him to say—You’re not good enough.  Or well done.  Or you didn’t try hard enough.  Or you let me down.  Or come and get on the bed!!  Don’t hesitate!  All He wants is to have us jump on the bed!

2 – God wants us to feel more hope in our lives by once and for all accepting the fact that your best is good enough!

We are good enough! In fact, your best is more than good enough.  It’s more than he could ever want.

One morning we woke up and realized that our oldest son had cleaned our whole house!  Sure, there were some clothes thrown on the floor of the closet and some dishes that maybe didn’t get rinsed all the way.  But we didn't need to point that out.  What a wonderful effort!  If God is the best dad in our imagination, and he wakes up to find that his son has cleaned the whole house but there’s still some tidying up to do, what is he going to do?   Can he straighten up the clothes?  Sure.  Can he rinse off those dishes a little more?  Yes.  Is he going to tell his son that he’s not good enough?  No.  He’s going to sweep him up in a big bear hug and thank him and love him.  His best is good enough!

The question He does ask us is: Did you try your best?

Mothers, your best is good enough.  Fathers, your best is good enough.  All of you in your callings, your best is good enough.

To quote President Gordon B. Hinckley: “You are doing the best you can, and that best results in good to yourself and to others. Do not nag yourself with a sense of failure.” 

3 – Give God the only thing that he ever wants from any of us: Please try to bring someone else back to him.

He doesn’t want praise.  He doesn’t want stuff.  He wants his kids back!

The whole gospel plan is simply trying to help a dad get his children back.  And there are 2 ways you can do this:

            1 – Do temple work for your family, living and dead.

            2 - All of us have a calling.  There is someone in your life that you can share God’s love with. Help bring some child back to their Father.

I promise you that if this year you make this your goal, you will come to understand and feel what it means to have a Father in heaven.  And if you try to bring someone back (maybe yourself), you will hear God saying to you that your best is good enough for Him.

I testify that you can help bring someone back, and as you do, your hopes, desires, and needs will come to you.

He is the God of hope.  He is the God of everything will be okay.

In the book of Revelation it says that God will wipe away all tears from their eyes and there will be no more sorrow nor crying nor pain (see Revelation 21:4).  It will all be fine.  Because God, our daddy, will make everything okay.

This Week in Relief Society

The Relief Society lesson this past Sunday was from the beginning section of this year's new manual: Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Joseph Fielding Smith.  We discussed highlights from President Smith's life and talked about how to apply his example to our lives.

Why should we read/learn about President Joseph Fielding Smith?  The lessons in Relief Society and Priesthood for the 2nd and 3rd Sundays of each month this year will come out of this new manual, which is a collection of stories and talks from Joseph Fielding Smith.  It is important to learn about who he was and why he said what he said.  When we learn about his life, we can better appreciate his testimony and teachings and feel the spirit through his words more fully.

Did you know Joseph Fielding Smith's grandfather was Hyrum Smith?
Did you know Joseph Fielding Smith outlived three wives (one at a time) and had a son die in military service?
Did you know as a boy he used to leave baseball games (which he loved) early just so he could read his scriptures?  Talk about putting the Lord first!
Did you know his father, Joseph F. Smith, was prophet of the church?
Did you know Joseph Fielding Smith was known for using and exemplifying the phrase "true and faithful"?  Have you noticed that phrase in the scriptures, by other Church leaders, or in the temple?

There's lots more to discover about him in the new manual!  You can download it for free in the LDS Gospel Library app, pick up a hard copy at church (we will be ordering more books--please let us know if you want a hard copy), or read it online: http://www.lds.org/manual/teachings-of-presidents-of-the-church-joseph-fielding-smith?lang=eng

Look ahead:  Next week (January 19) is Ward Conference, which means the Relief Society lesson will be taught by the Stake Relief Society leaders.  The topic is Strengthening Families.

The lesson on January 26 will be based on Elder Bednar's General Conference talk entitled "The Windows of Heaven."  Read it ahead of time to better contribute to the lesson.

Cooking Class This Saturday!

Come to the free cooking class at Lynda Richards' home (813 Tara Circle) this Saturday at 10am.  We will be learning to make "Mug Cakes"!  Anyone coming to the class needs to bring a couple of microwave proof mugs or ramekins as each recipe will make around 2 Mug Cakes.  This will be a blast and it is the newest and latest thing.  We will be making ours from scratch.  Yum!  No one should miss this.  You can also make quiche and other types of things including meatloaf and lasagna.

Here is a website to read more about them:

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/entertainment2/57336986-223/mug-cake-microwave-cakes.html.csp

Plan on coming, and please RSVP to Lynda Richards at 801-604-6626 so she can know how many to expect.  (Children are also welcome.  She has a "grandma room" with toys and movies and will make them a snack as well!)