A need

A family is in need a kitchen/dining room table.  If you can help please let Bernadette know.  Thanks for all you do.

Tri-Stake Fireside

This Sunday; April 22 there will be a Tri-Stake Fireside, at 6:30 p.m. at the stake center.

The guest speaker is Scott Anderson, a well-respected CES instructor and speaker for EFY.

It is a wonderful opportunity for our youth(ages 2-18) & their parents, so please encourage them to come.

April's Book Club

Book Club will be meeting Thursday April 19th at Robin McLean's home.  They are reading Where the Mountain Meets the Moon.  To read more about the book and what else the book club will be reading check out the blog.  http://readitornotherewecome.blogspot.com/  All are welcome even if you haven't read the book.

For those with Cub Scouts

This week on Wednesday, April 18 will be the Cub Scout's Blue & Gold Dinner in the gym from 6:30-8:00.  Families with a Cub Scout are encouraged to attend.

RS Women's Conference

April 28th will be the RS Women's Conference "CHOICES" at the Stake Center from 9:30 - 1:30 pm, lunch will be included but no nursery.

You get to pick 4 or the 7 mini-classes offered.  They are as follows - Buy This Not That, Cut Hair Not There, Where What!!, Eat This Not That - Build a Meal, Read This Treasure That (Choose the Better Part), Sew Here Not There & Plant This Not That.

You can read more about the classes by clicking on the Flyer to the left.  Make plans now so you can attend.

Stake Employment Office Hours

Stake Employment office hours, 2nd and 4th Wednesdays at 7:00 p.m. This is an opportunity for members to work with employment specialists one on one for employment-related activities such as writing resumes, networking and goal setting. Appointments are not required. For additional information, please contact: Candace Harman vacandace@gmail.com or 804-380-8558 Tish Heflebower tish.heflebower@gmail.com or 804-928-3868 Hank Heilesen hankheilesen@ymail.com or 804-240-8648

Event date: Apr 11, 2012

Event time: 7:00 PM

Location: 2500 Pump Road

Mormonism 101

The missionaries mentioned these two websites today, if you have a chance check them out.  The first is Mormon news room & also Mormon.org.  Search the newsroom site for Mormonism 101 FAQ.  Also setup your own profile on Mormon.org and share your testimony, if you'd like that is.

If you have trouble clicking on the links above you can cut and past the following.
http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/
http://mormon.org/

April Visiting Teaching Message

This months message is from our Prophet, President Thomas S. Monson titled "His Is Risen" - a Prophet's Testimony.  By clicking on the link you can share it with your sister's, read it or print it.

Love, Watch Over, and Strengthen

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Prayerfully study this material and, as appropriate, discuss it with the sisters you visit. Use the questions to help you strengthen your sisters and to make Relief Society an active part of your own life.

Love, Watch Over, and Strengthen

Like the Savior, visiting teachers minister one by one (see 3 Nephi 11:15). We know we are successful in our ministering as visiting teachers when our sisters can say: (1) my visiting teacher helps me grow spiritually; (2) I know my visiting teacher cares deeply about me and my family; and (3) if I have problems, I know my visiting teacher will take action without waiting to be asked.¹

How can we as visiting teachers love, watch over, and strengthen a sister? Following are nine suggestions found in chapter 7 of Daughters in My Kingdom: The History and Work of Relief Society to help visiting teachers minister to their sisters:

• Pray daily for her and her family.
  
• Seek inspiration to know her and her family.
  
• Visit her regularly to learn how she is doing and to comfort and strengthen her.
  
• Stay in frequent contact through visits, phone calls, letters, e-mail, text messages, and simple acts of kindness.
  
• Greet her at Church meetings.
  
• Help her when she has an emergency, illness, or other urgent need.
  
• Teach her the gospel from the scriptures and the Visiting Teaching Messages.
  
• Inspire her by setting a good example.
  
• Report to a Relief Society leader about their service and the sister’s spiritual and temporal well-being.
  

From the Scriptures -Luke 10:38–39; 3 Nephi 11:23–26; 27:21

From Our History

“Visiting teaching has become a vehicle for Latter-day Saint women worldwide to love, nurture, and serve—to ‘act according to those sympathies which God has planted in [our] bosoms,’ as Joseph Smith taught.”²

A sister who had recently been widowed said of her visiting teachers: “They listened. They comforted me. They wept with me. And they hugged me. … [They] helped me out of the deep despair and depression of those first few months of loneliness.”³

Help with temporal tasks is also a form of ministering. At the October 1856 general conference, President Brigham Young announced that handcart pioneers were stranded in deep snow 270–370 miles (435–595 km) away. He called for the Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City to rescue them and to “attend strictly to those things which we call temporal.”⁴

Lucy Meserve Smith recorded that the women took off their warm underskirts and stockings right there in the tabernacle and piled them into wagons to send to the freezing pioneers. Then they gathered bedding and clothing for those who would eventually come with few belongings. When the handcart companies arrived, a building in the town was “loaded with provisions for them.”⁵

For more information, go to reliefsociety.lds.org.

What Can I Do?

1. How can I know what my sisters need?
2. How will my sisters know that I care deeply about them?
   

Easter Egg Hunt

April 7 will be an Easter Egg Hunt at Dunncroft-Castle Point Park 10:00 a.m. – Be on time and bring baskets for the kids. 

Personal History Writing Class

Don't miss tomorrow nights Personal History class at Margie Harton's house at 7pm.  "Here's our topic: spring fling.  Now, this isn't meant to be scandalous.  It's your dating story or history.  Or your parents'.  Or, lack there of, etc.  Basically, write about whatever you want!"  Even if you haven't written come and see what it's all about!

Help with Dental exam

Chapin Smith needs a patient for his dental board exam.  He is looking for patients who need fillings.  The dental school is allowing him to offer a free teeth cleaning to anyone who comes in to be screened.  If you qualify for the exam you will get a free filling.  Please contact Chapin Smith at chapinsmith@gmail.com if you or anyone you know is interested.

April's General Conference

Want to watch, listen or download sessions from yesterday or earlier today?  Click here or cut and paste the following link to your browser address bar to do just that. 
https://www.lds.org/general-conference/sessions/2012/4?lang=eng