November Relief Society Night

This month, for our Relief Society Night, Phyllis Williams spoke to us about women's health issues.  She spoke about issues that pertain to us as women, and also issues that include our families.  We learned about what kinds of things we should be doing to protect our health and to maintain the good health we have.  There was a lot of good information given, and stimulating discussion.  She literally filled the board with information that we touched on! Thank you so much for sharing your expertise Sister Williams!

Relief Society Night September

This month Karen Brock spoke to us about literacy in our homes.  She spoke about reading to our children, and reading for ourselves and the benefits of both.  She had a great presentation about setting goals, and planning out what we want to get from our reading and from our children reading. It was a fantastic presentation, thank you to Sister Brock for all her preparation!

And Terra Oporto outdid herself on the super cute treat display. Here are some pictures of it!

April Relief Society Meeting

This month's Relief Society meeting was a large service project with the First ward.  We had people sewing pillowcase dresses, making cute little matching games, and tying a quilt.  A lot of work was completed, and many lives will be blessed.

I had my camera with me that night, but was having too much fun and forgot to take any pictures!  So if you happen to have any pictures of that night, send them to me and I will post them here for everybody to see. :)

January Relief Society Night

This month's theme was Guess the Sister. Everybody brought three items that said something about them and put them in a brown paper bag. Then they were pulled out, bag by bag, so that we could guess who's bag it was. Some were easy, some were harder. But it was a lot of fun to get to know things about each other that we didn't know. I'm sure everybody who was there had a fun time and learned a lot about their sisters.

Relief Society Night- November

Last night we had a very informative evening with Officer Zimmer from the Mount Vernon Police Department. He gave us valuable information about the presence of gangs in our community and how to recognize gang activity around us.

Scary fact: Did you know there are about 200 active gang members in our community? Wow, I was floored by that statistic.

He taught us about the major groups in Mount Vernon, how to recognize them and their grafitti, and how to recognize pre-gang behavior in our children.

Many thanks to Officer Zimmer for visiting with us and giving us all this useful information!

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!