2012 Education Expo

Here is some information regarding The 2012 Education Expo coming up on March 8th, 15th and 22nd. The LDS American Fork Employment Resource Center is excited with the exceptional list of educational exhibitors who will be participating. Feedback from this event in years past has been very positive, and will offer a great opportunity for your youth, and their parents to gather information and search for educational options. In addition, they invite single parents or members wanting to upgrade their current education or income level. If you have any questions regarding this event, please contact Danny Jessop at 801-372-1445 or danny@dannyjessop.com.

See link for handout:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/185314921516721/322644217783790/?notif_t=group_activity

~Humanitarian Opportunity~

Lehi Jr High is supporting a project to collect items for the Fun Zone at our local children's hospital. All of us have either had family or know someone who has spent extended time at the children's hospital. This is a chance to help those kids currently spending time there. They have ask for certain items and we are encouraging our students to donate. Items should be brought to the media center. Items in need are:

List of items to donate (must be new)

Craft Supplies of all types (stickers, feathers, pom poms, pipe cleaners, google eyes etc.)

Kids scissors

Fuzzy posters for older school-aged girls

Rattles

Lego kits

Nerf basket hoops (small ones)

Doctor kits

$1 models (birdhouses, helicopter, sailboat, train, airplane, race car, etc.)

Wedding bubbles (small tubes with bubbles)

Play food

Oballs

Light up toys

Pop up books

Baking soda and vinegar

Small snack baggies

White t-shirts (med/large)

Playing cards/ Uno and Phase 10 cards

Colored (Fun) duct tape

watercolor brushes

Sunglasses to decorate/bedazzle

Cash donations (5$ or less)

There are plenty of Jr High students in our ward who would be more than willing to take any items you can donate to the school. Or feel free to drop them off to me (Cara) and I would be happy to take them as well. Thanks~

Stake RS Activity- March 17th, 10am

Sat. Mar 17th at 10:00: RS Birthday Celebration.

The Lehi East Stake Relief Society will be presenting a program entitled "Our Stories, Honoring the Voices of Modern-Day Women of Faith" for our Annual Birthday Celebration. Please mark your calendars and plan to join us for this uplifting program.

Visiting Teaching Moment

One of my visiting teaching memories/messages relates back about 28 years ago. We (my late husband Scott) myself and our 6 year old daughter Courtney moved from Salt Lake to the small town of Hinckley, Utah. It was a difficult time for me because I had never lived away from my wonderful family. It was a lonely time for me, I just felt out-of-sorts. My husband had family there which was great but none the less I missed my family. The one thing that brought me through that difficult time was the church and more specifically my dear visiting teachers. They came and taught me and in a short time I was one of the bunch, feeling a part. Moving to a small town is something I really cherish now. As I look back, the ward family was so close and loving, I felt like I was "home". I still keep in touch with Joanie Maxfield, she moved away to Tremonton from Hinckley a few years before we moved here to Lehi. We lived in Hinckley for 20 some years. I have loved the sisters I have visit taught and those that visit me. What an inspired program visiting teaching is, we are so blessed to have it in our lives.

Paula Cloward

February Birthdays

Happy birthday to the following:

Marnee Lemon (3)

Donna Wood (14)

Natalie Harris (18)

April Kasch (18)

Roxanne Tidwell (21)

Wendy Bird (23

~Provident Living~

Provident Living: Auto Buddy Emergency Light and Tool for $11.00. This tool includes a window spike, seat belt cutter, LED flashlight, and flashing emergency beacon. It has a magnetic end to easily attach to your car and requires 2 AA batteries (not included). Money is due Feb. 27^th to Brenda Swapp. In March we will be going to the cannery- watch for more info.

Congratulations!

Congratulations to Lindsay & McKay Ercanbrack on the birth of their baby girl, Katelyn Capri. She was born Wed., Jan. 11th and weighed 6 lbs 9 oz and was 20" long.

Visiting Teaching Message: Guardians of the Hearth

“You are the guardians of the hearth,” said President Gordon B. Hinckley (1910–2008) as he introduced “The Family: A Proclamation to the World” in the general Relief Society meeting in 1995. “You are the bearers of the children. You are they who nurture them and establish within them the habits of their lives. No other work reaches so close to divinity as does the nurturing of the sons and daughters of God.”¹ For almost 17 years now this proclamation has reinforced that our most significant responsibilities are centered in strengthening families and homes—no matter our current circumstances….

Fortunately, we are not left alone in our efforts. “The greatest help,” says Sister Thompson, “we will have in strengthening families is to know and follow the doctrines of Christ and rely on Him to help us.”²

February 2012 Relief Society Lesson Schedule

Feb 5- Presidency Message by Laura Osmond

Feb 12- GP #3 “Our Testimony of Jesus Christ”

Feb 19- GP #4 “The Prophet Joseph Smith, God’s Instrument in Restoring the Truth”

Feb 26- TFOT “A Witness” by Pres. Henry B. Eyring