Don't Forget!

Sign up for your tithing settlement appointment on the sign-up sheets next to Bishop Alvord's office. Appointments start this Sunday (the 5th) and continue until Wednesday, December 29th. Please come a few minutes early for your appointment to check your membership records for accuracy.

Note: On days when tithing settlement is scheduled, appointments with Bishop Alvord will be limited. He will make arrangements to meet on especially pressing matters. Otherwise, please wait for a Wednesday evening or Sunday when tithing settlement is not scheduled.

Christmas Fund Donation

If you wish to donate to the Ward Christmas Fund, please do so soon. On a tithing slip, write Christmas Fund on the blank line at the bottom and the amount. Donations to this fund are not tax-deductible.

Last-Minute Notice

Don't miss our ward Christmas party tonight!

Dinner will be served at 6:30, followed by a nativity program featuring our talented ward members. We encourage members to bring non-perishable holiday meal items for our Sub-for-Santa families such as instant mashed potatoes, stove top stuffing and canned veggies. Please place them under the tree at the party. Bring your neighbors!

Trunk or Treat

The East Central Community Council presents Trunk or Treat!

Families welcome!

Saturday, October 30

6:00-8:00 p.m.

10th East Senior Center

237 South 10th East

Arrive to set up your trunk 5:30-6:00 p.m. No cars permitted in after 6:15 p.m.

Hope to see you there!

Regional Conference

Friday, October 22

7:30-8:30 p.m.

Stake Center (951 E. 100 S.)

Everyone is invited!

Refreshments follow.

Sunday, October 24

Regional Conference Broadcast

10:00 a.m.

Stake Center

Speakers to include members of the First Presidency,

Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, and other leaders.

A Call to Strings

The choir is performing a song at the end of October, and we are looking for a string trio or quartet to play with us. If you play a string instrument and are willing to share your talent, please call Jodi at 801-897-6595.

On that note (no pun intended), if you're interested in singing with us, there is still plenty of time to learn the song. Join us Sundays after church in the chapel! Experience NOT required.

Announcing...

A new Relief Society presidency!

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Trell Beaty, President

Celeste Jensen, 1st Counselor

Marissa Kempe, 2nd Counselor

Lauren Willie, Secretary

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What a wonderful group of sisters!

The church needs organists!

Those persons who can play the piano, who are interested in doing a simple training in transitioning from the piano to playing the organ (with no pedals), please attend a meeting on Thursday, September 16th at 7:00 p.m. in the chapel. No previous organ experience is required. Any questions, call Louise Pierce at (801) 485-2370.

Come Harvest New Friends!

New Sister Social on September 19th 3:00 pm at the church.
Please come meet and welcome the new sisters in the ward!

Sign-up sheets to bring fruits/veggies/treats will be passed around in Relief Society.

Go East High!

Hey all, Gavin Lawrence is an East High Football player and to support one of East's sponsors, we are passing on a great coupon!

TCBY is now a proud sponsor of East Football...attached is a buy one get one free for a limited time at the new location located across from the Nordstrom Rack in Sugarhouse...copy and use as many times as you like and give to family and friends..lets support our sponsors!! Thx..Jeff Chatelain

Walking Partner?

If there are any other stay-at-home moms looking for a walking partner, I go on a walk with my son and puppy every day around 8 am (or before it gets too hot - I can be flexible). If you would like to join me, call or email 2tiffanyjones@gmail.com.

-Tiffany Jones

Getting Closer to the Word of Wisdom

Apply its principles
Receive its blessings
Experience its promises

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Mini workshops:
(1) Jeopardy: Thou shalts and Thou shalt nots
(2) The Biggest Winner: Choosing wisely
(3) American Idle: Get ready, Get set, GO!

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Healthy Snack Bar

Thursday, July 29, 2010
6:00 p.m.-7:15 p.m.

Presented by Jane and Lauren Willie and special guests!

Radio LDS

The Church has launched an official 24/7 radio station, called the Mormon Channel, at http://radio.lds.org. You can listen to the station over your computer or HD radio in certain areas. A Facebook widget and an iPhone application are now available. Listeners can also subscribe to podcasts of their favorite programs.

Summer Fun

Every Wednesday, admission to This is the Place Heritage Park is $2.00 per person. Call for details: 801--582-1847

The first Monday of each month is free admission to the Utah Museum of Natural History. Call for details: 801-581-4303

FREE summer concerts during June, July , August at Brigham Young Historic Park, the Assembly Hall, or the Tabernacle. Go to lds.org, click on News and Events, then click on Events (see the many upcoming concerts available with tickets) and scroll down to Temple Square Performances.

Remember Your Visiting Teaching

"There are many sisters who are living in rags--spiritual rags. They are entitled to gorgeous robes, spiritual robes, as in the prable. We talk so much about duty, but it is your privilege to go into homes and exchange robes for rags."

--President Spencer W. Kimball

Scout Fundraiser

Our Scouts are raising money for summer camp at Bear Lake in July. Got a lawn to cut, windows to clean, weeds to pull, or other jobs? The Scouts are prepared to work! Contact Phil Swink, YM Presidency, 801-928-4892 to schedule a Scout!

Help Out the Campout

Everyone's looking forward to the ward campout, June 25-26 at the Spruces campground! It has a "Survivor" theme, with lots of fun competitions and a program after dinner.

We are in need of some supplies for that weekend:

12+ Dutch ovens (for cobblers)
6 Hula Hoops
5 Tiki torches

If anyone has any of these items that they are willing to share, please contact Jenny Zemp at 801-369-1900 or jennyzemp@gmail.com. Thank you so much!

P.S. Maps and more info on the campout are available in the lobby at church.

Talent Agency...

Do you have a talent that you would like to share? We are looking for sisters willing to teach/lead a one-time class or series of classes during the week. If you have any ideas, please email/call/approach a member of the presidency. There are so many talented sisters in the ward, we would love to learn from you!

Service Opp

Help the Relief Society clean our ward building!
Thursday 6/24/10 at 6:30 pm due to the ward camp-out that Friday & Saturday
Sign up at church on Sunday
Bring your family and/or friends - the more the merrier!

Missionary Work

We would like to thank all of you for your wonderful enthusiasm and help in seeking out our inactive sisters. The blitz last Sunday was wonderful and we are eternally grateful for all the sisters who participated! We still have some names of sisters who weren't home or who didn't come to the door. If you would like to join us in trying to go visit them again, please contact a member of the presidency - we would love your help!

Monthly Humanitarian Night!

Basics of Quilting (First 4 months)
Last Wednesday of every month, starting this month
6/30/10 from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Come join us!

New Sister Social

There's a New Sister Social coming up on May 23rd! Come meet the new sisters in the ward (or if you are a new sister, come meet the regulars)!

Join us the 23rd at 3:00 p.m. at the church. See you there!

At Home in Mitford

Book Club is reading a new book! Please join us in reading At Home in Mitford, by Jan Karon.


Synopsis
Combining the stellar script-adaptation skills of award-winning writer Paul McCusker with the best-selling novel by Jan Karon, Radio Theatre's At Home in Mitford will leave listeners longing for more. Set in the charming village of Mitford, this book will delight listeners as it draws them into the life of Father Tim, an Episcopal rector who finds himself running on empty and longing for change. His bachelor existence is changed and enriched by a lovable cast of characters, including a stray dog, a lonely boy, and a comely neighbor.

For more information, check out Jan Karon's website: www.mitfordbooks.com.

Family History Conference

One of the largest gatherings of family history experts in the world will take place in Salt Lake City during the last week of this month. The 13th Annual Conference on Computerized Genealogy and Family History, traditionally held at Brigham Young University in Provo in March, will take place at the Salt Palace on April 26 and 27, immediately followed by the four-day Annual Conference (April 28-May 1) of the National Genealogical Society, also at the Salt Palace. The conferences are designed to be how-to guides for beginning, intermediate and advanced researchers.

This is an exceptional opportunity for those with an interest in family history, an interest that already is booming due to the NBC TV show, "Who Do You Think You Are?" The two-day conference includes more than 50 classes to help participants learn about advances in computer programs, research techniques, more information can be found at http://familyhistoryconferences.byu.edu.

For pricing or additional program or registration information, contact:

BYU Conferences and Workshops
115 Harman Continuing Education Building Provo, UT 84602-1516
801-422-4853
E-mail: cw115@byu.edu

Temple Trips

Sister Laurie Williams would like a temple buddy to drive with her to various temples around the state. Due to sleep disorder, Sister Williams cannot drive long distances. She has the next two weeks off and would like to visit the Logan Temple and Ogden Temple (it closes at the end of the year for refurbishing). A trip to the Mount Timpanagos Temple could also have a side trip to Thanksgiving Point for the Tulip Festival. In the future she would also like to visit the Monticello Temple in southeast Utah. This would require a hotel stay, and there are some nice national parks to visit on the way there and back!

If there are any sisters interested in doing day trips please contact Sister Williams at luleeanna@yahoo.com or give her a call at (501) 355-3257.

Ward Activities

Dear Sisters,

Before the end of the month 280 quilts need to be finished to contribute to our Stake's Days of 47 Parade float. Once the parade is over, these blankets will be donated to various hospitals, assisted living facilities, charities, etc. in our community and others.

To help with this we will have a WARD QUILTING PARTY. Please join us for the fun! We will need all of your helping hands: young, old, experienced, novice, male, female...everyone!

Friday April 16th from 6- 9:30pm.
Saturday the 17th from noon to whenever we finish.

Bring your favorite snacks and soft drink for a snack food and drink potluck. On Saturday evening we will have a movie too. People can come and go as they please or have time.

***If you own a rotary cutter, cutting mat, or sewing scissors please bring them with you.***

Looking forward to see you there!

Birthday Party Part II

Attention All Chocoholics

We are in need of chocolate fountains for an event at the end of this month! If you have one you are willing to lend out, please contact Kim Smith at (801)583-3308
or respond to this post. Thank you!

Job Camp

Junk Wanted!

I am on the look out for random objects. I will be making small machines with students at a local school. If anyone has any clean junk laying around, I would love your contributions!

Examples include: plastic containers, toilet paper rolls, old CDs, metal cans, nonfunctional electronic gadgets, plastic bottles, paper products, metal wires, florist wires, brads, dowels, toothpicks, pipe cleaners, craft sticks, old windshield wiper - basically anything clean.

If you have anything that you would like to donate, please drop it off at my house 378 S 1200 E (east-facing doors) by Monday, March 29th.

Thanks!
-Analiesa

Birthday Party Part I

These are pictures from our Relief Society birthday party. What fun!

Happy Birthday!

Come join us this Saturday, March 20 @ 1pm for our annual birthday party to celebrate the anniversary of the Relief Society's organization.

The theme is "Patterning Our Lives After Christ."

We will be having a luncheon and making fleece blankets for humanitarian services and hospitals. Come serve, have lunch, meet some new friends, and have fun!!

*We are in need of rotary cutters, sewing scissors, cutting mats, and sewing machines to help with the blankets, so if you have any of those you are willing to bring, please let one of the presidency members know.*

A Little Bit of Spring

Here's something to bring a little color to a wintry day! Follow this link: http://www.procreo.jp/labo/flower_garden.swf and just click on the screen. Or click and drag your mouse all over for lots of quick color! The first day of spring is only 2 weeks away!

"We are going to do something extraordinary..." -Emma Smith, at the first meeting of the Relief Society

Announcements Page

Having a baby or getting married? Moving in or out? Win an award or just have something to share? Send it in to 33reliefsociety@gmail.com and we'll post it on our Announcements page for all to see. Happy moments can last longer than a minute!

Analiesa Leonhardt

I was raised in a small town in southern Wisconsin, and am the oldest daughter in a family of two girls and seven boys. Both of my parents converted to the church just a few years before meeting each other. After taking classes at three different universities, I graduated a year ago from BYU with a degree in Botany. Two of my favorite projects I was a part of at BYU included performing ethnobotanical research on Moroccan plants, where I tested plant extracts on various pathogens and cancer cell lines; I also contributed to the WomanStats Project, working with a team of researches to compile the most comprehensive database on women in the world. My educational journey also included spending a number of months working and teaching on a demonstration farm in an impoverished village along the coast of Ecuador. A year later the Lord called me back to serve as a full-time missionary in the same country.


I moved to Salt Lake City this fall and have my first 'real' full-time job. I am an Education Specialist for The Leonardo, a hands-on science-art-technology museum opening in Salt Lake next April. In addition to helping to create the education programs for the museum, I also take a travelling science museum to middle schools all around the state of Utah. I've become rather adept at hitching up and driving our 25-foot long cargo trailer! Besides botany and education, I am also very passionate about birth. I've been trained as a doula and plan to soon return to school to become a midwife. I dream of one day fusing all three of these passions by studying and documenting the medicinal plants used by traditional midwives, along with providing training to maternal health workers in rural and impoverished areas. But, for now I just voraciously read about these things. As spring creeps in, I look forward to going out foraging for wild edibles in our area. Let me know if you'd ever like to join me!

Casting Call

Looking for something to do this summer?

This is the Place Heritage Park (SLC UT) is currently casting for vignette and reenactment performers for the 2010 summer season. From Memorial Day through Labor Day, there are a large number of volunteer and paid ($8-9/hr) performing opportunities for men and women, teenagers and up. Come help bring pioneer and frontier times to life!

Contact Cliff Harris
801-924-7502
ccharris@thisistheplace.org