Relief Society Purposes:
*Increase faith and personal righteousness
*Strengthen families and homes
*Seek out and help those in need
FAITH
LESSON REVIEW: "Developing Christlike Attributes" from Preach My Gospel.
Doctrine: "The invitation to follow Christ is an invitation to follow His example and to become like Him."
Invitation to Action: "How can we develop attributes that will make us more powerful and effective ministers of the gospel of Jesus Christ?"
"Learn of Him and seek to incorporate His attributes into your life."
"Learn of Him and seek to incorporate His attributes into your life."
"With a desire to please God, recognize your weaknesses and be willing and anxious to improve."
Promised Blessings: "Christlike attributes are gifts from God. They come as you use your agency righteously. Ask your Heavenly Father to bless you with these attributes; you cannot develop them without His help."
January Lessons:
12th - "Our Father in Heaven" - Joseph Fielding Smith
19th - "Our Savior Jesus Christ" - Joseph Fielding Smith
26th - "Like a Broken Vessel" - Elder Jeffrey R. Holland
FAMILY
The Value of Work: J. Richard Clark
“Fortunate is the young man or woman who has learned how to work. Wise is the parent who requires children to learn responsibility and to meet acceptable performance standards.”
2014 Youth Curriculum - “Come Unto Christ”
January – The Godhead
Theme Song:
2014 Primary Theme – “Families Are Forever”
January – Heavenly Father Prepared a Way for Me to Return to His Presence.
RELIEF:
This month we ask each visiting teaching companionship to make sure each of the sisters they visit have the new R.S. manual and the new bookmark.
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| 2014 Relief Society manual |
January Visiting Teaching Message: Jesus Christ: Exemplar
"Of Latter-day Saint women, President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, Second Counselor in the First Presidency, said: "You wonderful sisters render compassionate service to others for reasons that supersede desires for personal benefits. In this you emulate the Savior...His thoughts were always tuned to help others."
News:
*Congratulations to Stacie Day, who will be married on January 18th!
*A new sister, Nancy Tietjen, has moved into our ward!
Nancy and her husband Charles have just moved from Teton because they bought the Kay's house! They have been married for eight years and have four darling little children: Charles (5), Chloe (3 1/2), Jenna (21 months) and Allison who is only seven weeks old. (Yes, Nancy was moving in with a two week old baby= stressful!!)
Nancy's husband works for Navex Global, a computer software company here in Rexburg. He also enjoys fixing cars on the side. Nancy is a photographer! I was very impressed because she already had a beautiful, up-dated family picture (that she took herself) hanging on her wall.
The Tietjens are going to be such an asset to our ward! I can't wait for all of you to meet them!!
Calendar:
March - R.S. Birthday Party
