December 11

The Ward Christmas Party is Saturday, December 17th at 9:00 am.  Come have breakfast with the ward and get in the Christmas mood..

Christmas gift suggestions: to your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.

You can never truly enjoy Christmas until you can look up into the Father's face and tell him you have received his Christmas gift.  ~John R. Rice

Some businessmen are saying this could be the greatest Christmas ever. I always thought that the first one was.  ~Art Fettig

Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it "white". ~Bing Crosby

November 27th

Saturday, December 3rd is the Relief Society Christmas Party.  It will be at 11:00 am at the Giordano’s home.  We will be having a crepe bar and need people to sign up to some fruit and muffins.  Come have a great time and enjoy a delicious brunch!  

The First Presidency Christmas Devotional is December 4th.  Tickets are required but they are free.   You can register for tickets online .

The Ward Christmas Party is Saturday, December 17th at 9:00 am.  Come have breakfast with the ward and get in the Christmas mood.

November 20

Saturday, December 3rd is the Relief Society Christmas Party.  It will be at 11:00 am at the Giordano's home.  We will be having a crepe bar and need people to sign up to some fruit and muffins.  Come have a great time and enjoy a delicious brunch!  That afternoon is the Christmas Concert.  You can attend on your own or come with the Relief Society group.  We can make arrangements for rides for the Senior Sisters if interested.  Let Lori Jenks or Debbie know.

The First Presidency Christmas Devotional is December 4th.  Tickets are required but they are free.   You can register for tickets online at lds.org/events.  Or call 1-866-537-8457.

The Ward Christmas Party is Saturday, December 17th at 9:00 am.  Come have breakfast with the ward and get in the Christmas mood.

November 13

Wednesday, November 16th will be a temple outing for the older sisters (or anyone that wants to go). We’ll go to the 11:00am session so we’d need to leave Hyde Park at 10:30. Debbie can pick-up three sisters and arrange for rides for more if needed. She’ll start picking up around 10:00 – 10:15 am. Then we’ll eat lunch in the cafeteria after the session if anyone wants to. We should be done with the session around 1:00 and if we eat, we should be done no later than 2:30.

The First Presidency Christmas Devotional is December 4th.  Tickets are required but they are free.   You can register for tickets online at lds.org/events.  Or call 1-866-537-8457.

October 23

The Logan Temple is in need of volunteers willing to serve in the clothing rental area. Anyone interested may call the temple 752-3611 and ask for Trenna in the clothing. She is available most days until noon. Debbie Hansen would be willing to answer questions regarding what the job entails.

Stake Conference is at the end of the month.  Since the tabernacle is under construction, it will be held at the Stake Center with the overflow in our church building.

The next Relief Society Activity will be on Tuesday, November 1st, at 6:30 at the church.  We will be making the canvas mounted photographs.  (See Lori's examples)  Please sign up if you are interested.

October 9

This Friday, October 14th is our Relief Society Retreat.  It will be at Lori Jenks cabin at 5:00.  We will have dinner, an activity, and fun just being together.  If you would like to sleep over please bring a sleeping bag and a pillow.  There is a sign up sheet in the binder.  Please let us know if you plan on coming and if you would like to stay overnight.  

For our Senior Sisters:  A canyon drive outing to see the fall leaves has been planned for Monday, October 17th. We will leave at 2:00 and be gone around an hour. Call Debbie Hansen 563-3998 to reserve your seat in the car!

The Logan Temple is in need of volunteers willing to serve in the clothing rental area. Anyone interested may call the temple 752-3611 and ask for Trenna in the clothing. She is available most days until noon. Debbie Hansen would be willing to answer questions regarding what the job entails.

Stake Conference is at the end of the month.  Since the tabernacle is under construction, it will be held at the Stake Center with the overflow in our church building.

Judy's Pear Honey

PEAR HONEY


Since many of us have a few pears laying around, here is a great recipe for them. Compliments of Judy G.

9 lbs. of pears

7 lbs. of sugar

1 cup cider vinegar

1 stick cinnamon and 1 stick for each jar

Peel and core and quarter pears,  add 4 lbs. sugar,  1 cup vinegar, and cinnamon stick, then let sit overnight to draw out juices.

In morning drain juice in large kettle and add rest of sugar and bring to boil then add pears.  Reduce heat and cook slowly for 2 hours.  Syrup should have a honey color and pears are transparent.  Don’t cook with cinnamon stick. 

Pack pear honey in hot jars and place cinnamon stick in each jar, then seal and preserve in hot water bath.  The color gives the recipe its name.

Judy sends her love to all.

Book Club

Dear book club friends,

We decided to have a potluck in October--cooking recipes specifically from  Animal, Vegetable, Miracle in addition to discussing our book of the month.  If you don't have access to the book anymore, you can get the recipes online at: http://www.animalvegetablemiracle.com/Recipes.html.  If you can let me know what you plan to make, or broadcast it ("reply all") to the group, then we can make sure we don't have duplicates.  So, if you'd like to take part in the potluck, we plan to meet for dinner at 6:45 at Sharidean's house.  If you can't make it for the potluck, book discussion will begin at 8 as usual.
October 12 at 6:45 (for dinner and discussion) and/or 8 PM (for discussion only) at Sharidean's house: The Miracle of Freedom: Seven Tipping Points That Saved the World by Chris Stewart and Ted Stewart (320 pages, hardcover) Chris and Ted Stewart make a strong case that fewer than 5 percent of all people who have ever lived on the earth have lived under conditions that we could consider free. So where did freedom come from, and how are we fortunate enough to experience it in our day? A deeper look at the human record, write the authors, reveals a series of critical events, obvious forks in the road leading to very different outcomes, that resulted in this extraordinary period in which we live. They identify and discuss seven decisive tipping points:
1. The defeat of the Assyrians in their quest to destroy the kingdom of Judah
2. The victory of the Greeks over the Persians at Thermopylae and Salamis
3. Roman Emperor Constantine's conversion to Christianity
4. The defeat of the armies of Islam at Poitiers
5. The failure of the Mongols in their effort to conquer Europe
6. The discovery of the New World
7. The Battle of Britain in World War II
North Logan Library has one paper book and an audio book that I will attempt to get at my first opportunity.  The Logan Library also has both, but the audio version has an enormously long wait.  The paper copy wait is 24 days--Pat, can you reserve it ASAP?
November 9 at 8 PM at Pat Marshall's house: The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig (352 pages, paperback) is set in the past in rural eastern Montana—and addresses that time and place in distinct, uncluttered prose that carries the full enthusiasm of affection and even love—for the landscape, the characters, and the events of the story—without being sentimental or elegiac. The novel is narrated by an aging Montana state superintendent of schools, Paul Milliron, who is charged with deciding the fate of the state's last scattered rural schools, and who, in the hours preceding his meeting to determine those schools' fate, recalls the autumn of 1909, when he was 13 and attending his own one-room school in Marias Coulee.Recently widowed, Paul's father, overwhelmed by the child-rearing duties presented by his three sons, in addition to his challenging farming duties, hires a housekeeper, sight unseen, from a newspaper ad. The housekeeper, Rose, proclaims that she "can't cook but doesn't bite." She turns out to be a beguiling character, and she brings with her a surprise guest—her brother, the scholarly Morris, who, though one of the most bookish characters in recent times, also carries brass knuckles and—not to give away too much plot—somehow knows how to use them.The schoolteacher in Marias Coulee runs away to get married, leaving Morris to step up and take over her job. The verve and inspiration that he, an utter novice to the West, to children and to teaching children, brings to the task is told brilliantly and passionately, and is the core of the book's narrative, with its themes of all the different ways of knowing and learning, at any age.

This book is available at the North Logan Library, and Pat has also reserved the book club set from Logan Library, but it may not be available until after Oct. 24.

Finally, the website Janet mentioned for getting books is:  http://www.alibris.com/

Happy reading,
                   Julie, 563-6619

August 28

The Stake Super Swap is coming up., September 10th.  It is open to the public at 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.  Drop your stuff off on September 9th (5:00 - 9:00 p.m.) and then go shopping the next day.  Sounds like fun!

Do you have extra produce from your yard or garden?  Are you like me and can't stand to look at another tomato after canning them for weeks, but they keep coming? Well, then sign up on our produce exchange, and someone can enjoy them and they won't go to waste!

Our next Relief Society activity will in September.  The theme is "Preserving for the Future".  Start thinking about some ideas you use to preserve, foods, memories, traditions, and heritage that you could share with the rest of us.

 The Relief Society General Broadcast will be Saturday  Sept. 24th at 6:00 p.m. in the Stake Center.

August 21

The Stake Super Swap is coming up., September 9th and 10th.  It is open to the public at 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.  Drop your stuff off on September 8th and then go shopping the next day.  Sounds like fun!

 The Relief Society General Broadcast will be Saturday  Sept. 24th at 6:00 p.m. in the Stake Center.

Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. ~Henry James

Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer's year - it brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul. ~Author Unknown

June 26

Softball  will be every Thursday, at 8:30 p.m. at Center street Church.  Just show up with a mitt if you’d like to play.

The Logan Temple will be closed July 4th through August 2nd for maintenance.  

The next Relief Society Activity will be July 14th at Bear Lake (more specifically, the Seeholzer’s Cabin).  Come spend the day with us relaxing in the sun and cooling off in the record high water!

June 12

The Logan Temple will be closed July 4th through August 2nd for maintenance.  You have a couple more weeks to still get some time in.

Youth Conference will be June 23rd through the 25th

Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

-Dame Edith Wharton

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.

- John Lubbock

May 22

Tuesday, May 31st is our Stake Temple Day.  Please attend any session to be a part of it.

Our next Relief Society Activity will be Thursday,  June 2nd at 6:30 pm in the Jenks backyard.  We will be sharing our favorite summer things, show-and-tell-style.  Please sign up if you have a favorite summer recipe, summer activity, summer clothing, or anything summer-related that you would enjoy sharing with us.  

May 1

The Mid-week activity for this month will be a trip to the temple, Thursday, May 5th.  We will be doing Initiatories and Baptisms.
Baptisms will be at 1:30 and 2:00 p.m. and Initiatories will be from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.  
Please sign up on the sheet in the binders if you are interested in going.
Also, if you can’t find a babysitter, call Jill or Heidi and we can help you out.

If you haven’t contacted your visiting teaching supervisor about the month of April yet, please give her a call.
The small effort from you is big help for our supervisors.  Thanks!

I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.  ~Ruth Stout

Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.  ~Virgil A. Kraft

The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring.  ~Bern Williams

April 17

Thanks to Heidi and the RS Activity committee for all their work on the the Relief Society Birthday Party.  They did a marvelous job on everything.

We’re having a luncheon for our Relief Society mid-week activity this Wednesday, April 20th, at noon, at Lori Jenks’ home.  Come and enjoy good food and good company.  It will also give us all a chance to say goodbye to Kathy Spence before she and Stan leave for their Mission at Martin’s Cove, Wyoming.  Please sign up on the sheet in the binder if you plan on attending, so we can get an idea of how many people to plan for.  

Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time. 

 ~Martin Luther

March 6

The Relief Society Birthday Party will be TUESDAY, March 29th 

at 6:30 pm at the church.  

Dinner and a nursery will be provided.  

Come and enjoy the great evening that Heidi and her committee have planned.  

“March is a month of considerable frustration - it is so near spring and yet
across a great deal of the country the weather is still so violent and changeable
 that outdoor activity in our yards seems light years away.”

~ Thalassa Cruso

“The March wind roars
Like a lion in the sky,
And makes us shiver
As he passes by.
When winds are soft,
And the days are warm and clear,
Just like a gentle lamb,
Then spring is here.”

~  Author Unknown

February 6

Thanks to Heidi and the Mid-week Activity committee for the virtual trip to Fiji.  Next month, we’d like a real one.

Stake Relief Society Basketball is every second, third, and fourth Thursdays, at 8:30 pm at the Stake Center.

A worldwide leadership training meeting to be broadcast on February 12, will provide more detailed instructions on implementing Handbook 2, which was introduced in the November 2010 worldwide leadership training.  This meeting is for all presidencies, and a few others.

Sunday, February 27 is the Stake Parent-Daughter Fireside at 6:00 PM, at the Stake Center.  

January 30

Thursday, February 3rd, 6:30 pm at Carmen Sorenson’s home, (yes, THIS Thursday, aren’t you glad January is over?) will be our Midweek Activity.  We will be learning about Fiji, skyping with Brenda Lowry (who currently resides there), and tasting some Fijian cuisine.  Come and have a relaxing night socializing and tasting.  (I'm not sure if we'll come home rejuvenated or really depressed, I mean look at that picture!  Now I have to go turn up my thermostat and eat some chocolate.

Stake Relief Society Basketball is every second, third, and fourth Thursdays, at 8:30 pm at the Stake Center.

Winter is the season in which people try to keep the house as warm as it was in the summer, when they complained about the heat. 

~Author Unknown

I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood. 

~Bill Watterson

january announcements

The directory for the new year is out.  If you haven't gotten yours yet, let me know and I'll get it for you.
In case you've missed the gigantic poster out in the foyer of the church, here's the digital copy to announce the stake women's conference at the end of this month.