Relief Society Night September

We had a lovely dinner with a Ten Virgins Theme. The Young Women put on a presentation dressed as the Ten Virgins and narrators told potential scenarios that would describe both the wise and the unwise among us. It was an enlightening and Spirit filled night!

Our lovely Young Women in their costumes

(Click on the pictures to see them bigger, especially this last one :)

National Day of Service 9/11/10

On the First National Day of Service, we combined forces with the First ward and went to work on Lang's Pony Farm. There were lots of different projects going on, so this post is pretty picture heavy!

The lovely ladies at the check in table...

It really was a beautiful day and a lovely place to be for the morning.
We ended with a yummy BBQ after our work was completed.

And here's a recap of the different projects that were done:

Relief Society

Our job was to make these huge piles of weeds! The men were cutting it all down and the women were collecting it into burn piles. Made for some rather big piles of weeds.

Machetes? Never thought I'd see those at a church activity!

Primary

The Primary kids had jobs to do too! They raked up leaves and even hauled them away in wheelbarrows.

Some of them wanted to jump in the piles :) That's what they are for, right?





Cleaning up after the horses....
There was even a celebrity appearance by Batman!
And picking up rocks on the horse trails.

Young Women

The Young Women also started out picking up stones on the horse paths.

Did some weeding around a horse corral

And finished up with painting.

Young Men

The Young men were given the assignment of cleaning up the muck in the pond. They had canoes and kayaks and tried to scoop up the algae as best as they could. They weren't all that successful due to not having the right equipment, but they looked like they were enjoying the water toys!

The Elders and High Priests

They created a large flower bed area in the shape of an "L"

The entire pond area needed weeding, and the men did most of the weedeating and chopping. They also worked on the fences that run along the road.
Kicking up tons of dust and making LOTS of noise.
And some of the Elders made these awesome picnic tables.

Many thanks to those who worked to put the day together!

July Service Project

This month we spent the morning at the Vlahovich's home working in their yard and flower beds. We pulled weeds, pruned bushes and trees, and hauled a lot of bags of debris to the dump. Everybody worked too quickly for me to get "before" pictures, but the yard definitely looked much nicer after we were done.

I have a sneaking suspicion he just liked using the chainsaw :)

June Relief Society Night

Patriarchal Blessings Instruction

We had a lovely lesson from our stake patriarch about our patriarchal blessings this month. He taught us things that were new to us, and reminded us of things that we've known for a long time. We were reminded of their significance in our lives and the important guidance that they can give each of us. I'm sure the spirit was felt by all.

May Relief Society Night

Do you know what to do if your baby stops breathing? You do if you came to Relief Society!

Mary Maue did a great lesson for us this last week on CPR and some basic first aid. She was very well prepared with tons of pamphlets, multiple videos to watch, and even had CPR kits for both infants and children/adults.

We watched the infant DVD, and even practiced a little bit on the "mini-baby"

Then we covered the differences between infant cpr, child cpr, and adult cpr.

We also covered what kinds of things to have in a first aid kit, the heimlich maneuver, and touched on various other first aid and health topics.

Great job Mary, thanks for sharing a little bit of your knowledge with us!