Tuesday, March 12, 2013

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