Announcements

Yesterday was a combined 5th Sunday meeting, so you may have missed our flier of announcements. Here they are:

• Because it is General Conference this weekend, we will NOT be having exercise group this Saturday.
• There WILL be Mom's Group this Thursday at 11:00 a.m. in the B Basement.
• Book Review will be Wednesday, April 30. We will be discussing Little Women, so start reading! Jen Bailey has several copies of the book, so contact her to borrow one.

(This girl is sad because she didn't know about the Stuff Swap.)

• The Relief Society will be having a Stuff Swap!! This is a great opportunity for you to eliminate some excess "stuff" while you are spring cleaning or packing to move. Please bring any clothes or other small household items that you no longer need to the B-Basement on Friday, April 11th between 7 and 9 p.m. Then, come back on Saturday, April 12 between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. to pick up someone else's "stuff" that you want or need. Anything left at will be taken to DI, so if you do not want your things donated, be sure to pick it up at 1:00.
  

Enrichment Meeting Report

Sarah took much better pictures of the Relief Society Birthday Dinner, but here's what we have for now. The Enrichment Committee did a fabulous job with the decor, the dinner, and the entertainment! The Compassionate Service Committee also needs to be thanked for their amazing salad...(the recipe will be posted soon...), and also thanks to Kaori, Mercedes and Alice for their inspiring words.
Thanks for coming and making it a wonderful evening!

Becki, Melinda, Stormie, Emily and Bonnie chatting before the dinner begins.

A BEAUTIFUL musical number by Emily, Bonnie, Melinda and Sarah.

Alice's talk.

Kaori's testimony.

Attention Young Mothers

Aubrey Kiene, a BYU student from the 44th ward in our stake is conducting a study and needs our help. She says, "We are conducting a study that compares the leisure satisfaction of young LDS mothers (ages 20-30) to the leisure satisfaction of young mothers (ages 20-30) of different religions. The survey is on-line and will take about 5-10 minutes to complete. It is completely anonymous and your name will not be associated in any way with the results of the study. My partner and I really appreciate your willingness to fill this out and help us with our project. If you are a young mother, please fill this out as soon as you can. Thank you for your time."

The link to the survey is: http://qtrial.qualtrics.com/SE?SID=SV_85FkOYOhBijWfXe&SVID=Prod

Happy Birthday, Relief Society!!

Today, March 17th marks the Relief Society's 168th birthday! Aren't we so glad that Joseph Smith decided to start this great organization?? To the first LDS women who wanted their own society, he said, “I will organize you … after a pattern of the priesthood,” Later, he added, “The Church was never fully organized until the women were thus organized.”

Latter-day Saint women everywhere were united in a sisterhood, and today the Relief Society blesses every woman who accepts the gift of activity in that sisterhood.

We will CELEBRATE this special birthday this Thursday evening!!

Please join us for a catered dinner, a fun trivia game featuring your very own BYU 37th ward Relief Society sisters, and uplifting testimonies.

Multi-Purpose Building
7:00 - 8:30 pm
Babysitting in the nursery rooms.

Repent!

On Sunday, we had a wonderful lesson from the Joseph Smith manual on repentance. Lauren led a great, thought-provoking discussion, which may be what Elder Holland was talking about when he said, "It's better to take just a few good ideas and get good discussion—and good learning—than to be frenzied, trying to teach every word in the manual.”

Our discussion focused on daily repentance. Lauren asked what we thought the phrase in the manual meant that reads, "Repentance is a thing that cannot be trifled with every day." Questions were also raised like, "Do I need to kneel down every night and really repent of something that I did that day?" "What if I'm repenting daily and have the desire to change, but I keep on making the same mistakes?"

The realization that I came to during this discussion was that repentance is a change of heart and mind; a change of the way one views God. This made me stop thinking of repentance as a one-time event when I kneel down at night and repent of a mistake I made during the day, resolving to stop doing it the next day. It made me realize that maybe every day I can have a little softening of my heart, a little more humility or a slight change of my mind in the direction of God's will, and that that "counts" as my repentance for the day! I had never thought of it that way before! Brigham Young said, "Most of the time, repentance does not involve dramatic changes. Rather, it involves small, often daily changes that move us in the direction of godliness."

I am grateful for the enlightening discussion we had on Sunday. Did anyone else have a realization during the lesson? Any comments that were missed? Feel free to comment.

March's Book Review focuses on the Savior

We hope that you are all finding inspiring things to read (and to share) for this month's book review. If you haven't started anything yet check out March's Ensign which completely focuses on Christ. Also, the church has a wonderful new website that would definitely be worth looking into...www.jesuschrist.lds.org

What's new for all of you?

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