Need Your Ideas

Hello Sisters!
We want this blog to be beneficial and to be fun for all of the sisters to read & enjoy. If you have any ideas/comments on things you would like to see on the blog. We would love to hear it! Feel free to post your comments on the blog or email at brenb_21@hotmail.com

For Example: A weekly post on discounts at stores (Will need sisters input on discounts out there.)

Thank you!

Jan. Birthdays

Jan 1 Vicki Stump
3rd Shelly Ewell (moved but missed)
4th Amy Mason
5th Cynthia Geis
10th Cynthia White
10th Debra Shinedling
10th Leslie Ann Wallace
11th Susan Argyle
13th Monica Mcgovern
13th Kim Griffiths
14th Joan Sanders Jackson
20th Jennifer Jensen
20th Carolyn Stacy
20th Mickey Ryoo
21st Donna Gallienne
25th Emily Green

Merry Christmas!

I hope everyone has a WONDERFUL and WHITE Christmas! Be safe! Love, RS

Ward Upcoming Activities

-YW/YM: Thurs Dec. 31 9:00pm - dance @ Lewisville Bldg (Ages 14-18)
-Primary: Sat Jan. 2, 9:00am - Meet your Teacher Activity
-2010: Beginning on Jan 3 (Fast Sunday) - Lake Cities 2nd will meet from 1:00-4:00pm
-Primary: Sun. Jan. 10, 6:00pm - Baptism Preview for children turning 8 in 2010 & their parents
-Relief Society: Jan 12, 7:00pm Then NEW date will be the Second THURSDAY of each month! More information to come!
-YW/YM: Youth Conference Jan. 15-17 ages 14-18

Lesson 47: Praise To The Man

Sister Spear taught the last lesson in the Joseph Smith manual we have been learning & reading from all year. Can you believe the year is almost over?
This chapter was filled with testimony after testimony of propehts expressing their deepest thoughts & love for Joseph Smith. "The Prophet Joseph Smith, was called of God, by the voice of God Himself, to open up the dispensation of the Gospel to the world for the last time.." (Joseph F. Smith). If you were not in Relief Society or even if you were there. Please take a few min. to read & ponder the testimonies shared in this chapter. I also encourage each of you to read the Suggestions for Study & Teaching. I personally have found it beneficial & has strengthened my testimony!
Thank you to all of the Sisters that bore their testimony in Relief Society & the sweet spirit that was felt in the room.

Nursery Sub Needed

Alexis Mayo will be out of town for the next two weeks & needs a sub for her nursery class. If you are available, please contact her at alexismayo@yahoo.com
Thanks!

Program for Messiah Sing - (Melissa Hall will be performing)

Messiah Sing
December 20, 2009 6PM & 8PM


Conducting: Mary Poulter
Strings: Classic Strings
Keyboard: Carole Crossley
Horns: Terry Lee and Barbara Lee
Trumpet: J. Robert Hatch

#1 Overature

#2 Comfort Ye and #3 Every Valley
-- Dan Ritchie, Tenor
-- Brian Sears, Tenor

#4 And the Glory of the Lord -- Chorus

#8 Behold, A Virgin Shall Conceive and #9 O Thou That Tellest
– Krista Oakes, Alto

#12 For Unto Us A Child Is Born -- Chorus

#14 There Were Shepherds and And Lo! , #15 And the Angel Said and#16 And Suddenly There Was with the Angel
-- Melissa Hall, Soprano

#17 Glory to God – Chorus

#19 Then Shall the Eyes of the Blind and #20 He Shall Feed His Flock & Come Unto Him
-- Barbara Lee, Alto
– Melissa Hall, Soprano

#45 I Know That My Redeemer Lives
– Melissa Hall, Soprano

#46 Since By Man Came -- Chorus

#50 Oh, Where Is Thy Sting
-- Krista and Jared Oakes, Alto, Tenor

#52 If God Be For Us
-- Mary Poulter, Soprano

#47 Behold, I Tell You A Mystery and #48 The Trumpet Shall Sound
-- Terry Lee, Bass J. Robert Hatch, Trumpet

#44 Halleluja!
-- J Robert Hatch, Trumpet

If you need more information, please call the number on the attached picture. Good Luck Melissa Hall! You'll do great! =)

Stake Conference

Saturday Session - Stake center @ 7:00pm

Sunday Session - Stake Center @ 1:00pm
Please try to car pool if you can so that parking will be easier & arrive early to get a good seat.

Sisters,

Looking for something fun to do over the long Holiday break? How about curling up with a good book and reading?!! Melissa Hall and Kristin Myres are starting up a book club for the New Year. Anyone interested is invited to attend!!

Our first meeting will be at Kristin's home on January 21st at 8:00 pm. We are going to try and meet on the third Thursday of the month. That gives all of us plenty of time to read the assigned book(s) before our first meeting.

We have chosen to read Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis, a wonderful book to read during the Christmas season. And as we start the New Year with our minds focused on personal development we have chosen to read The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Steven Covey.

We would like to read a book from a Classics list at least once every other month and also delve into other book genres, that we might not be as familiar with--such as famous plays, speeches and other writings.

We would also like your input!! Please think about making a committment to read this New Year and come join us for some thoughtful discussion. You do not need to commit to coming every month, you are welcome to join us only on the months that work best for you. Send us an email or leave a comment and we will make sure to put you on the list of people interested in the most amazing Book Club yet! Thanks a bunch!!
~Melissa and Kristin

Message from Alexis Mayo:

Alexis's Scentsy Christmas Open House!!!
I have an overstock of inventory just in time for the holidays! I have 3 days to choose from so please come by and pick up all your Christmas gifts and not pay any shipping or stand in any lines!!!
Thursday, Dec. 10th from 11-2
Saturday, Dec. 12th from 2-4
Thursday, Dec. 17th from 11-2 and 7-9
My address is 109 Everett Ct. Shady Shores, TX 76208
Cash-n-carry (checks accepted as well but no credit cards please) event so come and get your Scentsy gifts before they're all gone!!

The Greatest Gift Of All

Please Join us Thursday
December 10th at 7pm
for our RS Activity

Refreshments will be served & babysitting will be available.

We look forward to seeing you there!!

Upcoming activites:
Tuesday Jan. 14th - Recharging the New Year
Tuesday Feb. 11th - First Aid for the Family

Relief Society Lesson

Thank you to Sister Abbott for a wonderfully prepared lesson that was presented in Relief Society today. We spoke about the Temple, ways to prepare to attend the temple. I truly felt the spirit when everyone reverently listened to the lesson and participated with comments & testimonies. Sister Abbott also mentioned how several years ago she was challenged to write in the corner of her temple recommend how many times she planned to attend the temple that year. That is a fantastic challenge & I hope we all can attend the temple as often as we can. There is much work to do!


"Let us truly be a temple-attending and a temple-loving people. We should hasten to the temple as frequently, yet prudently, as our personal circumstances allow. We should go not only for our kindred but also for the personal blessing of temple worship, for the sanctity and safety that are within those hallowed and consecrated walls. As we attend the temple, we learn more richly and deeply the purpose of life and the significance of the atoning sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ. Let us make the temple, with temple worship and temple covenants and temple marriage, our ultimate earthly goal and the supreme mortal experience. As the prophets have said, the temple is a place of beauty; it is a place of revelation; it is a place of peace. It is the house of the Lord. It is holy unto the Lord. It must be holy and important to us." Howard W. Hunter, “A Temple-Motivated People,” Ensign, Feb 1995

December Birthdays!

2 Leslie Gross
3 Tabitha Estes
10 Vicki Carmen
12 Kimberly Birkinbine
14 Janet Strickler
16 Helen Wardle
24 Janet Brown
24 Roberta Slangerup
24 Amber Nish
31 Lynsey Boyles

RS Temple Trip

The Lewisville Stake Relief Society Presidency
will be attending the Dallas Temple on

Tuesday, December 8, 2009 at the 10:00am session.

Every sister in the Stake is welcome to join us.

Please know that there is no obligation to attend ---
this is merely an informal invitation.


If your schedule permits, we would love to have you join us for lunch in the cafeteria following the session so we can get better acquainted.

November Birthdays

8 Elizabeth Hatch
11 Mary Rutherford
11 Kaori Tiu (moved)
12 Kayla Hyde
13 Rebecca McKown
13 Katherine Smelanskas
16 Karen Sykes
16 Noella Pacheco
18 Brandy Ainsworth
19 Rochelle Struve
25 Veronica Garza
26 Alexis Mayo