Note for Moms and Tots

This is a message sent to all members of the Facebook Group Heritage Ward Moms and Tots. Click here if you would like to join or go to this group.

Hey Everyone! 

There has been a change to the Heritage Ward Mom and Tots. From now on it will be once a month.

I am hoping to do something a bit more fun like going to the astro jumps, swimming, or something along those lines.  Since it is once a month I figure it will be a little easier to do fun things like that- unless the winter roads don't allow for driving too far.

As always I will send out an email each time that there will be the playgroup.  I haven't figured out what thursday of each month playgroup will be yet...but it won't be this week since I work nights:)- so please do not show up at the church this week.

I will have an announcement ready for Sunday's relief society and an email later in the week letting you guys know Thursday and where to meet.

Thanks so much girls!

Jenn

Service Group Meeting

The Service Group will be meeting Wednesday, November 4th at 7pm at the church. We will be finishing up the project started last month - sewing blankets for Blankets for Canada.  If you have a sewing machine you can bring, please bring it. The plan is to use up ALL the fabric in the two boxes we have been given, and get more blankets sewn!

The nursery is also in need of our service, sisters.  The toys there are in need of sanitizing.  Please contact Kim Earl if you are willing and able to get together one evening in November to clean the toys in the nursery.  Thank you!

Freezer Meals

The freezer meal swap for October was wonderful. Days of not preparing a meal were enjoyed by eating other peoples delicious cooking!  The meals swapped were:

Chicken Cordon Bleu Casserole

Sausage and Bean Casserole

Baked Tortellini

Parmesan Chicken

Fast Chicken

15 Minute Mexicali Dinner

If you are interested in the recipes for any of the meals, leave a comment below this post or email to leth.heritagers at gmail.com     If you are interested in participating in the next meal swap, contact Arlene Cook.  The next swap is planned for November 5.

For information on this group you can refer to the previous Freezer Meals post by clicking here! 

Super Saturday Finale

A big thank you to all who were able to help out and participate in our Super Saturday activities. A lot of preparation and planning goes into events such as these, and it was great to see all of you there having fun, completing projects, visiting, enjoying each others company, and serving each other.

Muffins, fruits, juices and treats were served as sisters arrived.  Five delicious varieties of soup were prepared for lunch, with root beer floats for dessert!  Sisters were kept extremely busy sewing capes and spy bags, rolling chocolates, tying tulle tutus, gluing bows and ribbon, painting wood, slicing pictures, sticking vinyl, and tying the quilt.

We have such a fabulous group of sisters.  It was fantastic to see everyone mingling and having such fun together.

"Relief Society indeed provides women with special opportunities to express their feelings of charity, benevolence, and love. Wherever women are true to their feminine natures and magnify their opportunities for loving service, they are learning to become more like God." -Spencer W. Kimball

Countdown

Two more sleeps and it will be Super Saturday!

If you have not signed up for anything, please still come. There will be a quilt set up to tie for Woods Homes. You are also welcome to bring your own crafts or take this time to complete some unfinished projects. Or just come to visit!

Just a reminder that a continental breakfast of muffins and fruit will be served at 9am. A soup lunch will be served at 12:30pm.

Safety for the Soul

"I want it absolutely clear when I stand before the judgment bar of God that I declared to the world . . . that the Book of Mormon is true.

"For 179 years this book has been examined and attacked, denied and deconstructed, targeted and torn apart like perhaps no other book in modern religious history—perhaps like no other book in any religious history. And still it stands. Failed theories about its origins have been born and parroted and have died—from Ethan Smith to Solomon Spaulding to deranged paranoid to cunning genius. None of these frankly pathetic answers for this book has ever withstood examination because there is no other answer than the one Joseph gave as its young unlearned translator. In this I stand with my own great-grandfather, who said simply enough, “No wicked man could write such a book as this; and no good man would write it, unless it were true and he were commanded of God to do so.”"

Elder Jeffrey R Holland gave a very powerful testimony during the Sunday afternoon session of October 2009 General Conference. We will be studying his talk, "Safety for the Soul" for our lesson this Sunday. Please take time to read and review this talk for Sunday.

The current Relief Society lesson schedule is posted on the right-hand side of our blog page. Links to the articles and talks for the lessons are provided, simply click on the lesson title and the article will be opened in a new window.

Super Deadline!!!

This Sunday is the final day to sign up and pay for your projects for Super Saturday.  If you haven't already signed up for the project you want, it is not too late yet!   Simply look back at our Super Saturday Blog entry, calculate how much you owe, bring that money to church on Sunday and we will get you signed up.  Prices have changed a bit as we've searched for the best price on the materials.  Contact the person in charge of the project if you have questions.  We will have the table set up with the projects on Sunday one last time.

What Matters Most

More "Mormon Messages" can be found on the YouTube Mormon Messages Channel

Back To Basics

Just a reminder about the Back To Basics group meeting Wednesday 14th at Judy Gilmours house at 7pm.   This months focus will be on knitting and crocheting.  What does it mean to purl? What is a rib stitch?  What is a half double stitch?  What yarn to use for what project?  How to increase? Decrease?  Change colors?  If you would like answers to these questions, and yearn to learn to crochet or knit... COME!!   Do you have patterns/ideas you would like to share, or projects you would like to finish?... COME!!  Bring your needles and yarn if you have them.  See you there!

Super Saturday Drawing Near!

Super Saturday is two weeks away.  Have you signed up for your favorite projects?  If you have not yet had the chance to sign up for a project you would like to do during our Super Saturday, please, PLEASE, please, do not hesitate to contact a member of the enrichment committee, Brittney Boehmer, Henriette Schuwer or email to leth.heritagers at gmail.com to get your name on the sign-up list.

The signups have only been out for one week, but we are quickly running out of time.  So far, there has been no sign-ups for quite a few of the exciting projects including: chocolate making, snowman making kit, and jar gifts.  There are a few others, too, so if you do not contact us to be signed up, these classes will not run.

We ask that you have your money in to the project contact no later than October 18th so the materials can be purchased.  Unfortunately, the cost of some of the projects have changed, and may change again as we finalize details.  You will be notified and reimbursed accordingly.

Please click here to refer back to our Super Saturday information post, and be sure to contact a member of the enrichment committee, Brittney Boehmer, Henriette Schuwer or email to leth.heritagers at gmail.com to get your name on the sign-up list.

Service Success

A BIG Thank-You to all those who were able to sew panels together before our meeting, and to those who were able attend the Service Group meeting! With five sewing machines humming, and a dozen ladies pinning, ironing, cutting, sewing, tying, and chatting, time went by quickly!

Donated material was cut to 9"square or 18" square and sewn into "panels" approximately 50"x70".  Large scraps of fabric were pieced together and sewn as the "innards" of the blankets.  These were sewn together with the finished panels, tacked, and finished off with a label "Blankets for Canda -- Not to be Sold" sewn to the corner.  All blankets made in Southern Alberta go to those in need in Southern Alberta -- making a difference to our fellow citizens and our local communities.

Five blankets were completed, along with a box full near completion.

This may be an on-going project for the Service Group as it was a huge success.

Members who reach out to serve others in their communities learn that their contributions multiply and that personal growth is inevitable.  Latter-day Saints who contribute in their community simply to better it, frequently find unexpected blessings of both greater capacity and increased opportunity to serve.

Music Downloads

This is NEW!  On the LDS.org website as well as downloading the audio of the talks given during all General Conference sessions, you can now download the music from General Conference!  This is exciting to be able to enjoy our beautiful Hymns in their beautiful choral arrangements any time we want!

CLICK HERE to Go to the MUSIC Download page at lds.org.

CLICK HERE to Go to the TALKS Download page at lds.org.

Service Group Meeting

Just a reminder that the Service group will be meeting this Wednesday, October 7th at the church at 7 pm.  You will be given a phone reminder as well, as not all are able to check the blog for updates.  We will be meeting with a couple of ladies from "Blankets for Canada" and plan to sew a few blankets together for them.  Thank you to everyone who has sewn up panels so far!  Hope to see you all at the church at 7 pm this Wednesday!  Click on "Blankets for Canada" or HERE  to be directed to the Blanket for Canada website.   Here is the Lethbridge Site.

179th Semiannual General Conference

The 179th Semiannual General Conference of the Church will be held in the Conference Center in Salt Lake City on Saturday and Sunday, October 3-4, 2009. The Saturday general sessions will be held at 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.; Sunday sessions will be held at 9:30 a.m. (which includes Music and the Spoken Word) and 2:00 p.m. The general priesthood meeting will be held in the Conference Center on Saturday, October 3, 2009, at 6:00 p.m.

For information on worldwide broadcast times and options, see the broadcast schedule.

For additional information about general conference, see the Events page.

Freezer Meals Group

This is a great way to stock your freezer for those nights when you don't know what to make for supper or when you don't have the time. We each spend one night cooking a large batch of our favorite recipe, and then we get together and swap. Save yourself from those panic trips to the nearest fast food restaurant and no more rush trips to the grocery.

We have 6 people in our group, so you make 5 of the same recipe. One for each of the other people in the group. 6 if you want to eat it also. We are making 4 batches of 4 servings each, and one batch with 5 servings. This accomodates the different sizes of families in the group. You package it according to what the meal is (zip lock bag or disposable pan) and freeze it.

Meals should be what your family likes. Don't try a new recipe out on the group if you haven't made it before. We would hate to have a meal go to waste. The meal should cost a TOTAL of $40 to $50 for ALL of your supplies to make the meals. That is 8 - 10 dollars per meal. That should include packaging of the meal as well. For example, if your meal is costing only 5 dollars, you would provide things to go with it. Possible ideas are, buns, side dishes, or dessert to bring the cost up. The meal should be able to feed 4 or 5 people. So, if you are making something with chicken breast you need 4 or 5. If it is a soup it should be a large zip lock bag, for a casserole a 9 X 9 tin foil pan.

Also, you need to type out your recipe on a 8 x 11 paper and photo copy it 5 times for everyone in the group. Include on there all the instructions for cooking the meal and any side dishes that go well with the meal (you DO NOT have to provide the side dishes.)

There are lots of cook books available at the public library to give you recipe ideas. There are also various websites offering recipes that freeze well. I have found this to be a super useful group for my family. It is so helpful on busy days to pull something out of the freezer heat it up and eat. We also learn about things that we didn't know we could freeze from the other meals we receive.

We are planning to meet on October 9 for our first meal swap. Thereafter, we will plan to meet on the first or second Friday of the month at 10:30. We only need to meet for 15 minutes to swap the meals. I have 2 freezers, so if you can't make it, please drop your meals off early, and I will swap them for you. You can pick them up whenever it is convienient for you.

--Arlene Cook

Give the gift of Gifts

At Relief Society this past sunday, we were given a slip of paper worthy of posting:

Give the gift of Gifts - A Wonderful Service Opportunity

Each year the Big Brother/Big Sisters organization sponsors a "Christmas Store" to give all children in the Lethbridge community the opportunity to Christmas shop for their families.  An event this big requires much help from the community.  This year 10th Ward is asking all families in the West Stake to donate appropriate gifts which children will then select and purchase (at very reasonable prices) for their family members (sisters, brothers, parents, grandparents).

Items don't need to be fancy but they must be new or in new condition. This doesn't need to be a costly thing for your family.  Two years ago 10th Ward sisters went through items we already had and have things we simply hadn't used.  We had so many great gifts to give to this "Store" and we de-cluttered in the mean time!

Some ideas may be:  art/wood projects, jewelry, toys, gloves, wallets, games, hair products, clothing, tools, ties, art supplies, CD's, and DVD's gift wrapping supplies.  Think like a child and you'll come up with some great ideas!

Thank you for all your help!  We know you'll feel the gift of giving as you provide someone else with the exact same opportunity . . . to give!

All gifts can be dropped off or picked up before October 22nd to Sister Marcy Mueller. Her address and phone number are in the West Lethbridge Stake Directory.