I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice cream

Ward Ice Cream Social   

August 24, 2015

Life can be hard, life can be dreary and life can be challenging.... for every one of us.  Everyone is trying to take life one day at a time as we work at perfecting our eternal self so we can return home to our Father.   In April 1979, Marvin J. Ashton taught, "Many of us set up roadblocks to progress and contribute to our own unhappiness while we wait for others to seek us out and offer help. Negative attitudes lived with today cause stagnation, misery, and bitterness tomorrow. It is unproductive for those who should be anxiously engaged in seeking the abundant life to nurse personal hurts. We are all God’s children. If we love Him, we will feed His sheep wherever they may be found, without regard as to our own personal plight or situation. Often we can best feed others when we are hungry ourselves or not completely comfortable in the fold that we presently occupy. Very often those who are hungry, helpless, and cold can best be rescued by those who have been through the same exposures. Marking time or stalling should not be indulged in by the weak, weary, uncertain, and unrecognized. Instead, there is a healing power as we use our energy in action, in service, and in lifting others." 

Tonight, members of our ward family were able to bond over ice cream. We all need each other and building those friendships (especially over BYU ice cream) can help us on our journeys.  Let us remember that as we feed the Lord's sheep, we our feeding ourselves.  Tonight it was so fun to feed each other ice cream, but there are so many ways we can feed His sheep. We can

• include and invite others
• really listen to others
• serve others
• love others without judging
• try to understand others
• pray for others
• demonstrate patience for others
• compliment others

We can remember that we all need to be fed and we all need each other to make it back home to the Father. 

Anchored in Christ.... Girls Camp 2015

Welby 7th Ward Girls Camp August 12-14, 2015

Reid Ranch

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“O ye that embark in the service of God, see that ye serve him with all your heart, might, mind and strength that ye may stand blameless before God at the last day.” D&C 4:2

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A Firmly Set Anchor

By President Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Second Counselor in the First Presidency

April 2014

Why We Need Anchors

The purpose of an anchor is to keep a ship safe and secure at a desired location or to help control the ship during bad weather. However, to accomplish these vital purposes, just having an anchor is not enough. The anchor must be solid, dependable, and used properly at the right time and place.

Individuals and families need anchors as well.

Adversity can come as a great storm to blow us off course and threaten to cast us against the rocks. But sometimes we are also in danger when everything appears to be safe—the winds soft and the waters smooth. In fact, we can be in the greatest danger when we are drifting and movement is so slight that we scarcely notice it.

The Gospel Is Our Anchor!!!!

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A Summary of Camp.....by Constence Rasmussen

Girls camp was a very spiritual and fun place for all of us girls! There was laughter and tears. Wednesday when we got up at camp, we all worked very hard together to put up all the tents. After all of the tents were up, all of us girls went and ate lunch. Shortly after one small group of girls went horse back riding, which was a fun experience for all. The second day started with a nice breakfast, then the other group of girls went horse back riding. Later after lunch, we all took a small hike down to the lake where we had some very heroic leaders that saved some of the girls when their boats were moved by some powerful winds causing the boats to get stuck in some grass and moss. Shortly after all of us girls hiked back to camp, the bishop arrived. He ate dinner and played a really intense volleyball game with most of us girls. It was all of the  young woman against the priesthood where it ended with the young women losing! When the young women lost, Constence and Rachel had to sing Frozen's "Let it Go" in front of everyone. After, everyone walked over to the fire pit where there were some very spiritual testimonies given. Early Friday morning after breakfast,  another group of girls went horseback riding for the last time. Then, everyone packed up all of their stuff and we started on the journey home.  

Other Camp Memories:

• Girls had fun in the game room.
• Girls enjoyed swimming in the pool.
• The "glow-in-the-dark" craft the girls attempted utterly failed.
• Also, the first volleyball game was ALSO lost (girls against Bro. Dean by himself), which is what led to the second game. The result of the first is that they had to refer to Bro. Dean as "honorable". That is why they wanted a rematch. It was best of three, and they got slayed every time. 
• It poured like CRAZY the first day, right as sister Carrington was blowing up her monster air mattress. 
• Skits were also fun. Girls had to use props and work in impossible words like "antidisestablishmentarianism" while rapping. And the young women totally pulled it off. 
• McKenna and Adrianna had fun with knives. We thought somebody might get shanked, but we did all leave without blood being shed. Kate even tried to put on a hard face for the knife picture (see pictures below)

 

Sharing the Aloha Spirit with the Neighborhood

Neighborhood Luau

August 8, 2015

        In 1917, after Queen Lili'uokalani had seen the end of the Hawaiian monarchy, she said to her hanai daughter, Lydia K. Aholo, "To gain the kingdom of heaven is to hear what is not said, to see what cannot be seen, and to know the unknowable - that is Aloha.  All things in this world are two: in heaven there is but One." 

         Thanks to the Flores family and the members of the ward who provided music, dancing, food and fun so that we could share the Spirit of Aloha with our dear neighbors.