March 12, 2013

Salutations! 

My apologies that this is a little late this week. I still love you all. 

(If you have any events you'd like to include here, school or community, let me know! I'd love to include them!)

- WEEKLY HAPPENINGS -

Ward Choir Practice
12:45 pm - 1:15 pm
Rooms 111 and 112
Come to prepare for the Easter program!

Basketball (w/Heather Hitchcock)
Tuesdays/Thursdays @ 7pm
BYU-I Center

Institute
Tuesdays @ 7pm
West Relief Society Room
*nursery provided*

From the Heart Choir Firesides
Sundays
7 pm - 8 pm
Hinckley North Chapel

- MARK YOUR CALENDARS -

Rexburg Poetry Slam feat. Liz Chapman
March 14th @ 8 pm
Sammy's
(copies of her book will be available to be purchased for $10...cash, debit, or credit!)

Relief Society Clothing Swap
Saturday, March 23rd
11 am - 12:30 pm
@ Church building
Start cleaning out those closets to swap clothing -- please bring clothing to swap to Church on Sundays leading up to the swap so it can be organized
HONOR SYSTEM
**Women's clothing only; no men's or children's clothing please. Any remaining items will be donated to the Family Crisis Center**

Easter Fireside
Sunday, March 24th
7 pm @ Idaho Falls North Stake Center (next to Temple)

Ward Party!
"Around the World in 120 Minutes"
Saturday, March 30th
5 pm - 7 pm
Our church gym
**food, dancing, fun from cultures around the world!**

- ANNOUNCEMENTS -

Baby Saylor Williams has a new liver! She's in the hospital recovering, and still has a lot of healing to do, but she's doing great! Thank you for your continued prayers.

Are you interested in doing a special musical number in sacrament meeting? Because February is all kinds of open. Contact Aimee Mecham at 208-206-4441 if you're interested.

Congrats sisters on having 63% visiting teaching rate this month!

- MISCELLANY -

If you're looking for a job, our employment specialist will post any job openings she hears about to this blog! Keep an eye out, and if you hear of anything available, comment here. 

Liz Chapman has officially published a book of poetry! She's working on getting copies available in a few places around Rexburg, but in the meantime, you can buy a copy here if you're interested. It will also be available on Amazon Kindle soon.

T-Bird Hartner has coordinated temple attendance. Every week in Relief Society, a clipboard will be passed around where you can sign up to attend an endowment session at the temple. You can go with friends, with T-Bird, or on your own, and she'll text you to remind you.

BYU-Idaho has an "Understanding Same Gender Attraction" group on campus. Those interested in attending meetings to show love and support and to gain greater understanding of their brothers and sisters are welcome. Talk to Liz about meeting times and places.

Are you available to babysit? We'd like to put together a babysitter contact sheet here on the blog, with names of those who can watch your kids! That way, young moms can just visit this site for babysitters. Comment on this blog if you'd like to be included as a potential babysitter, along with your availability. Because this is a public blog, we won't include phone numbers--just look folks up on the ward directory.

- SPIRITUAL THOUGHT -

(This is the thought that T-Bird shared with us last Sunday while encouraging us to attend the temple...pretty awesome.)

"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."

--C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

February 24, 2013

Hello, dear sisters. My apologies for neglecting the blog last week. Here's all the stuff you need to know this week!

(If you have any events you'd like to include here, school or community, let me know! I'd love to include them!)

- WEEKLY HAPPENINGS -

Ward Choir Practice
12:45 pm - 1:15 pm
Rooms 111 and 112
Come to prepare for the Easter program!

Stake Choir Practice
5 pm every Sunday
North Chapel

Basketball (w/Heather Hitchcock)
Tuesdays/Thursdays @ 7pm
BYU-I Center

Institute
Tuesdays @ 7pm
West Relief Society Room
*nursery provided*

From the Heart Choir Firesides
Sundays
7 pm - 8 pm
Hinckley North Chapel

- MARK YOUR CALENDARS -

The Tempest
Feb 26 - Mar 2
@ 7:30 pm
Black Box Theatre
(starring Liz Chapman, Camilla & Dave Martinez)
**SOLD OUT, but standby tickets are still available, and there's a big chance you'll get in, especially if you go on Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday)**

Stake Conference
Saturday, March 2nd  6 - 8 pm
Sunday, March 3rd  10 am
@ our church building


Rexburg Poetry Slam feat. Liz Chapman
March 14th @ 8 pm
Sammy's


Relief Society Clothing Swap
Saturday, March 23rd, sometime in the AM!
Start cleaning out those closets to swap clothing
**Women's clothing only; no men's or children's clothing please**

Ward Cultural Night
evening of March 30th
more details to come

- ANNOUNCEMENTS -

Kate Swenson has a $10 couch available in April--contact her if you're interested!

Are you interested in doing a special musical number in sacrament meeting? Because February is all kinds of open. Contact Aimee Mecham at 208-206-4441 if you're interested.

Visiting teaching assignments have changed! If you're not sure who you teach, you teaches you, or who your partner is, contact Kaylin McOmber.

Sarah Bridges has temple names! If you're headed to the temple in the next few weeks, contact her to do one of her names.

Congratulations to Dave & Camilla Martinez, Liz & Jacob Chapman, and Nicole and Justin Maxfield on getting cast at the Playmill Theatre in West Yellowstone, Montana! They'll be there performing from May to September.

- MISCELLANY -

Our ward has an online employment forum! If you are looking for a job, or know of a job available, check it out here. (There's also a link above.)

Liz Chapman has officially published a book of poetry! She's working on getting copies available in a few places around Rexburg, but in the meantime, you can buy a copy here if you're interested. It will also be available on Amazon Kindle soon.

T-Bird Hartner has coordinated temple attendance. Every week in Relief Society, a clipboard will be passed around where you can sign up to attend an endowment session at the temple. You can go with friends, with T-Bird, or on your own, and she'll text you to remind you.

BYU-Idaho has an "Understanding Same Gender Attraction" group on campus. Those interested in attending meetings to show love and support and to gain greater understanding of their brothers and sisters are welcome. Talk to Liz about meeting times and places.

Are you available to babysit? We'd like to put together a babysitter contact sheet here on the blog, with names of those who can watch your kids! That way, young moms can just visit this site for babysitters. Comment on this blog if you'd like to be included as a potential babysitter, along with your availability. Because this is a public blog, we won't include phone numbers--just look folks up on the ward directory.

- SPIRITUAL THOUGHT -

"In this age of one hour dry cleaning and one minute fast food franchises, it may at times seem to us as though a loving Heavenly Father has misplaced our precious promises or He has put them on hold or filed them under the wrong name...When heaven's promises sometimes seem afar off, I pray that each of us will embrace these exceeding great and precious promises and never let go...God will remember you."
-- Spencer J. Condie, Ensign November 2007

February 10, 2013

Oh hey, everybody! Check out all this stuff!

(If you have any events you'd like to include here, school or community, let me know! I'd love to include them!)

- WEEKLY HAPPENINGS -

Ward Choir Practice

12:45 pm 

Rooms 111 and 112

Stake Choir Practice

5 pm every Sunday

North Chapel

Basketball (w/Heather Hitchcock)

Tuesdays/Thursdays @ 7pm

BYU-I Center

Institute

Tuesdays @ 7pm

West Relief Society Room

*nursery provided*

From the Heart Choir Firesides
Sundays
7 pm - 8 pm
Hinckley North Chapel

- MARK YOUR CALENDARS -

This week's fitness class:
Zumba @ 8 pm
Hart Main Gym

Stake Valentine's Day Dance
Friday, Feb 15 @ 7pm
Stake Center gym
*nursery provided*
*photographers needed*
*casual attire*

The Tempest
Feb 19 - 23, Feb 26 - Mar 2
@ 7:30 pm
Black Box Theatre
(starring Liz Chapman, Camilla & Dave Martinez)

Stake Conference
March 2 - 3

Relief Society Clothing Swap
sometime in March!
Start cleaning out those closets to swap clothing

Rexburg Poetry Slam feat. Liz Chapman
March 14th @ 8 pm
Sammy's

- ANNOUNCEMENTS -

Kate Swenson has a $10 couch available in April--contact her if you're interested! 

Are you interested in doing a special musical number in sacrament meeting? Because February is all kinds of open. Contact Aimee Mecham at 208-206-4441 if you're interested.

Visiting teaching assignments have changed! If you're not sure who you teach, you teaches you, or who your partner is, contact Kaylin McOmber.

Sarah Bridges has temple names! If you're headed to the temple in the next few weeks, contact her to do one of her names.

- MISCELLANY -

Our ward has an online employment forum! If you are looking for a job, or know of a job available, check it out here. (There's also a link above.)

Liz Chapman has officially published a book of poetry! She's working on getting copies available in a few places around Rexburg, but in the meantime, you can buy a copy here if you're interested. It will also be available on Amazon Kindle soon.

T-Bird Hartner has coordinated temple attendance. Every week in Relief Society, a clipboard will be passed around where you can sign up to attend an endowment session at the temple. You can go with friends, with T-Bird, or on your own, and she'll text you to remind you.

BYU-Idaho has an "Understanding Same Gender Attraction" group on campus. Those interested in attending meetings to show love and support and to gain greater understanding of their brothers and sisters are welcome. Talk to Liz about meeting times and places.

Are you available to babysit? We'd like to put together a babysitter contact sheet here on the blog, with names of those who can watch your kids! That way, young moms can just visit this site for babysitters. Comment on this blog if you'd like to be included as a potential babysitter, along with your availability. Because this is a public blog, we won't include phone numbers--just look folks up on the ward directory.

- SPIRITUAL THOUGHT -

"In this age of one hour dry cleaning and one minute fast food franchises, it may at times seem to us as though a loving Heavenly Father has misplaced our precious promises or He has put them on hold or filed them under the wrong name...When heaven's promises sometimes seem afar off, I pray that each of us will embrace these exceeding great and precious promises and never let go...God will remember you." 

-- Spencer J. Condie, Ensign November 2007

February 3, 2013

Happy Sabbath, dear sisters in Zion! Take note of the following awesomeness: 

- MARK YOUR CALENDARS -

This week's fitness class:
Abs That Rock
Thursday @ 7pm
Hart 234

Stake Choir Practice
5 pm every Sunday
North Chapel

Basketball (w/Heather Hitchcock)
Tuesdays/Thursdays @ 7pm
BYU-I Center

Institute
Tuesdays @ 7pm
West Relief Society Room
*nursery provided*

Bonnie's Baby Shower!
Saturday, Feb 9th @ noon
Hillcrest Apartments #23
*bring snacks to share*

Stake Valentine's Day Dance
Friday, Feb 15 @ 7pm
Stake Center gym
*nursery provided*
*photographers needed*

The Tempest
Feb 19 - 23, Feb 26 - Mar 2
@ 7:30 pm
Black Box Theatre
(starring Liz Chapman, Camilla & Dave Martinez)

Stake Conference
March 2 - 3

Relief Society Clothing Swap
sometime in March!
Start cleaning out those closets to swap clothing

- ANNOUNCEMENTS -

Are you interested in doing a special musical number in sacrament meeting? Because February is all kinds of open. Contact Aimee Mecham at 208-206-4441 if you're interested.

Snowed Inn Apartments is looking for a new manager! Girls housing located by Porter Park, you would pay $550 a month for a 2 bed, 1 bath apartment, or $350 a month + 20 hours of work per week. 1 to 2-year commitment necessary. If interested, contact Hayley at hayleydawnjorgensen@gmail.com

Liz Chapman's baby sister is getting married in March, and the young couple is looking for an apartment in the ward! If you know of any openings, please contact Melissa Whittaker at melissajo.whittaker@gmail.com

Visiting teaching assignments have changed! If you're not sure who you teach, you teaches you, or who your partner is, contact Kaylin McOmber.

- MISCELLANY -

Liz Chapman has officially published a book of poetry! She's working on getting copies available in a few places around Rexburg, but in the meantime, you can buy a copy here if you're interested. It will also be available on Amazon Kindle soon.

T-Bird Hartner has coordinated temple attendance. Every week in Relief Society, a clipboard will be passed around where you can sign up to attend an endowment session at the temple. You can go with friends, with T-Bird, or on your own, and she'll text you to remind you.

BYU-Idaho has an "Understanding Same Gender Attraction" group on campus. Those interested in attending meetings to show love and support and to gain greater understanding of their brothers and sisters are welcome. Talk to Liz about meeting times and places.

Are you available to babysit? We'd like to put together a babysitter contact sheet here on the blog, with names of those who can watch your kids! That way, young moms can just visit this site for babysitters. Comment on this blog if you'd like to be included as a potential babysitter, along with your availability. Because this is a public blog, we won't include phone numbers--just look folks up on the ward directory.

- SPIRITUAL THOUGHT -
(Not from a Church authority this week, but awesome enough to qualify as this week's spiritual thought.)

"It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship...All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no 'ordinary' people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilisations -- these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whome we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit -- immortal horrors or everlasting splendours. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously -- no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption. And our charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinner -- no mere tolerance or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment."

- C.S. Lewis, "The Weight of Glory"

January 27, 2013

Hello everyone! Hope your having a good, blizzard-y Sabbath. Here are the announcements for this week!

Oh, and a hearty welcome to all you new sisters!

- MARK YOUR CALENDARS - 

Basketball (w/Heather Hitchcock)
Tuesdays/Thursdays @ 7pm
BYU-I Center

Institute
Tuesdays @ 7pm
West Relief Society Room
(nursery provided)

Ward Social!
Saturday, Feb 2 @ 4pm
Church gym

Stake Valentine's Day Dance
Friday, Feb 15 @ evening
Stake Center gym

The Tempest
Feb 19 - 23, Feb 26 - Mar 2
@ 7:30 pm
Black Box Theatre

- ANNOUNCEMENTS -

Are you interested in doing a special musical number in sacrament meeting? Because February is all kinds of open. Contact Aimee Mecham at 208-206-4441 if you're interested.

Snowed Inn Apartments is looking for a new manager! Girls housing located by Porter Park, you would pay $550 a month for a 2 bed, 1 bath apartment, or $350 a month + 20 hours of work per week. 1 to 2-year commitment necessary. If interested, contact Hayley at hayleydawnjorgensen@gmail.com

Liz Chapman's baby sister is getting married in March, and the young couple is looking for an apartment in the ward! If you know of any openings, please contact Melissa Whittaker at melissajo.whittaker@gmail.com

Visiting teaching assignments have changed! If you're not sure who you teach, you teaches you, or who your partner is, contact Kaylin McOmber.

- MISCELLANY -

Liz Chapman has officially published a book of poetry! It's been a long journey, but as of yesterday afternoon, her book is available for purchase online. She's working on getting copies available in a few places around Rexburg, but in the meantime, you can buy a copy here. It will also be available on Amazon Kindle soon. 

T-Bird Hartner has coordinated temple attendance. Every week in Relief Society, a clipboard will be passed around where you can sign up to attend an endowment session at the temple. You can go with friends, with T-Bird, or on your own, and she'll text you to remind you. 

BYU-Idaho has an "Understanding Same Gender Attraction" group on campus. Those interested in attending meetings to show love and support and to gain greater understanding of their brothers and sisters are welcome. Talk to Liz about meeting times and places.

Are you available to babysit? We'd like to put together a babysitter contact sheet here on the blog, with names of those who can watch your kids! That way, young moms can just visit this site for babysitters. Comment on this blog if you'd like to be included as a potential babysitter, along with your availability. Because this is a public blog, we won't include phone numbers--just look folks up on the ward directory.

- SPIRITUAL THOUGHT -

"Under the definition of 'Temple' in the Bible Dictionary, we read the following: It is the most holy of any place of worship on the earth, followed by this insightful statement: Only the home can compare with the temple in sacredness. For me this suggests a sacred relationship between the temple and the home. Not only can we turn the doors of our homes to the temple, or the house of the Lord; we can make our homes a house of the Lord."

-- Gary E. Stevensen, May 2009 Ensign

January 20

Hello, my fellow sisters in Zion! Here are this week's thoughts, announcements, and news items.

First of all, welcome, new sisters, to our hip and fun ward! We hope you feel at home here, and know that everyone welcomes you with a smile and hearty handshake!

- MARK YOUR CALENDARS - 

Williams Baby Ward Fast
The Williams new baby has had some liver trouble, so we as a ward have set aside TOMORROW, Monday, Jan 21st as a day to fast for her and her family. Please join us in fast and prayer for little Sailor (sorry if I spelled that wrong!), her mom Lindsey, and her dad Tyrel.

RS Activity! YOGA AND SMOOTHIES
Thursday, Jan 24th
7pm @ church building
Bring a yoga mat or towel

Next week: Sunday, Jan 27th
Teacher Improvement Meeting
(all welcome, whether you're a teacher or not)
Rm 105 @ 12:30 (right after church)


Mark your calendars: Feb 2 Ward Activity
Details TBA

- ANNOUNCEMENTS - 

Snowed Inn Apartments is looking for a new manager! Girls housing located by Porter Park, you would pay $550 a month for a 2 bed, 1 bath apartment, or $350 a month + 20 hours of work per week. 1 to 2-year commitment necessary. If interested, contact Hayley at hayleydawnjorgensen@gmail.com

Liz Chapman's baby sister is getting married in March, and the young couple is looking for an apartment in the ward! If you know of any openings, please contact Melissa Whittaker at melissajo.whittaker@gmail.com

Visiting teaching assignments have changed! If you're not sure who you teach, you teaches you, or who your partner is, contact Kaylin McOmber. 

- MISCELLANY - 

BYU-Idaho has an "Understanding Same Gender Attraction" group on campus. Those interested in attending meetings to show love and support and to gain greater understanding of their brothers and sisters are welcome. Talk to Liz about meeting times and places.

Are you available to babysit? We'd like to put together a babysitter contact sheet here on the blog, with names of those who can watch your kids! That way, young moms can just visit this site for babysitters. Comment on this blog if you'd like to be included as a potential babysitter, along with your availability. Because this is a public blog, we won't include phone numbers--just look folks up on the ward directory.

- SPIRITUAL THOUGHT - 

"Gratitude is a Spirit-filled principle. It opens our minds to a universe permeated with the richness of a living God. Through it, we become spiritually aware of the wonder of the smallest things, which gladden our hearts with their messages of God's love. This grateful awareness heightens our sensitivity to divine direction. When we communicate gratitude, we can be filled with the Spirit and connected to those around us and the Lord. Gratitude inspires happiness and carries divine influence."
-- Bonnie D. Parkin (Ensign, May 2007)

January 13

Heather Hitchcock is putting together a just-for-fun basketball team! Come to the BYU-I Center every Tuesday and Thursday at 7 pm to join in.

BYU-Idaho has an "Understanding Same Gender Attraction" group on campus. Those interested in attending meetings to show love and support and to gain greater understanding of their brothers and sisters are welcome. Talk to Liz about meeting times and places.

SPIRITUAL THOUGHT OF THE WEEK:
"Jesus said, 'Without me ye can do nothing.' (John 15:5). I testify that that is God's truth. Christ is everything to us and we are to 'abide' in Him permanently, unyieldingly, steadfastly, forever. For the fruit of the gospel to blossom and bless our lives, we must be firmly attached to Him, the Savior of us all, and to this His Church, which bears His holy name. He is the vine that is our true source of strength and the only source of eternal life. In Him we not only will endure but also will prevail and triumph in this holy cause that will never fail us."
--Jeffrey R. Holland ("Abide in Me," Ensign, May 2004)


Want something in the newsletter? Email Liz at general_silliness@hotmail.com!