SUPER THURSDAY BLOG

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A few things...

A few updates and reminders for you as we enter this Stake Conference Weekend...

1. Thanks for all who contributed to our "Quick Fixes" Activity last night. We so appreciate our Additional RS Comitte and all they do for us each month. Recipes will be posted soon!

2. Christine's surgery went well. Her pain has been managed well and she is resting at home. Thanks to all who have signed up to bring in meals and all of the other things you have done to wish her a speedy recovery.

3. Stake Conference is this weekend. The adult session will be Saturday night at 7 pm and the General Session will be Sunday, from 10-12 pm.

4. For those of you who signed up to bring dips to the General RS Broadcast NEXT weekend...thank you! Please have your dips at the church at 5:!0 pm. The Social will begin at 5:30 pm. We hope you all can make it.

5. Finally...a thoughtto chew on over the weekend:

By Richard G. Scott

"Even if you exercise your strongest faith, God will not always reward you immediately according to your desires. Rather, God will respond with what in His eternal plan is best for you. He loves you to a depth and completeness you cannot conceive of in your mortal state. Indeed, were you to know His entire plan, you would never ask for that which is contrary to it even though your feelings tempt you to do so. Sincere faith gives understanding and strength to accept the will of our Heavenly Father when it differs from our own. We can accept His will with peace and assurance, confident that His infinite wisdom surpasses our own ability to comprehend fully His plan as it unfolds a piece at a time."

We love you!

From Christine

To all of my Relief Society sisters:
When I was diagnosed with breast cancer a little over a month ago one of my first thoughts was, "I can't do this." I had just recently been dealing with some other very difficult challenges and I just didn't know how I was going to face one more. I was completely spent both emotionally and physically. And then the Lord started pouring out his love and blessings on me in the form of all of you. I have felt so incredibly strengthened by your outpouring of love and support and know that you have been sent to me by a loving Heavenly Father. You have helped to strengthen my faith so that I could find the strength to face this challenge. Every smile, hug, kind word, uplifting thought, card, meal, house cleaning, and prayer has added to my faith and strength and I now know that I can do this and am not doing it alone. A brief synopsis of what is going on in case not all of you have heard. I found a lump in my left breast that did not show up on a diagnostic mammogram or an MRI. A biopsy, however, was positive. I have already had surgery to remove and test some lymph nodes and they were all clear. Also, some extensive testing was done on the tumor that showed it is really slow growing and has a really low rate of recurrence so I will not need any chemo or radiation. Due to the fact that diagnostic tests failed me, I am having a double mastectomy with reconstruction on Tuesday. Reconstruction will take a few months to totally complete and I will have a couple more minor procedures. The tumor was hormone positive so I may also go on some medication to shut down hormone production until I can have a hysterectomy probably next year. Thank you all in advance for your support and help during my long recovery from surgery. A support party was thrown together for me last week and I know that not all of you found out about it in time to come or were just unable to make it but know that I feel your support. Also, I am planning on a big celebration on the back side of all of this so if you were not able to make this party there is a bigger and better one coming when I am cancer free! I love you all and feel so very blessed to live in this ward and have you all as my Relief Society sisters. Love, Christine M.

A letter to Christine

Dear Christine,

The Roman Philosopher, Cicero, was known to have said, "Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant,and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it."

Tonight, many of us gathered together to prove this true, as we joined in showing our support for you and your  battle with breast cancer and upcoming surgery.

It was pink, pink, pink. Everyone wore their pink in support for you. 

It was so fun when a random man in the restaurant was wearing a pink shirt and asked why he hadn't been invited to the party. One of our waitresses even had a hot pink "scrunchie" in her hair.

The food was good...the company was better. There was so much love being offered up for you...it was almost tangible. 

That must be why another random man wanted to join in the love-fest photo shoot. :)

It was so neat to see so many sisters band together and show their support for you, Christine. It was amazing to see your cheerful countenance and the positive attitude you radiated. You are such an example of strength, faith, and determination.

There were even more that wanted to be there, but couldn't due to travel or other time commitments.

We hope that you know that you can count on your RS Sisters to help carry this burden.

This is not a fight you are facing alone. May you feel this burden lifted as you experience the power of our collective prayers, the love in our hearts, and the service of our hands.

Not only do you have your family, friends, and RS sisters cheering you on...you also have the unfailing strength of your Heavenly friends that you can draw upon.

The following is an except from a talk given by President Ezra Taft Benson: click here for the full talk.

"God loves us, he's watching us, he wants us to succeed, and we'll know someday that he has not left one thing undone for the eternal welfare of each of us. If we only knew that there are heavenly hosts pulling for us—friends in heaven, whom we can't remember now, who yearn for our victory.

I close with this last true story, as it was given by Bob Richards in his book Life's Higher Goals. It always touches my heart and it may touch yours. Lou Little tells this story about his greatest football team. They were on their way to the conference championship—one last game. He had a boy on his squad who had not quite been able to make the team for four straight years. 

Just before the game—three days before—Lou was given a telegram to give to this boy that informed him his only living relative had just died. The boy looked at the telegram and said, 'Coach, I'll be back for Saturday's game.' The morning of the game he came up to his coach and said, 'Lou, I want you to put me in this game. I know I haven't made the first team yet, but let me in for this kickoff. I'll prove to you that I'm worthy of it.'

 Well, Lou could see that the boy was emotionally upset, and he made all kinds of excuses, but finally he thought, 'Well, he can't do much harm on the kickoff, so I'll put the boy in.'

The roar of the crowd followed the kickoff. The opposing quarterback took the ball on the goal line, moved up, and on the seven-yard line there was a tremendous tackle. The boy had dropped him in his tracks. On the next play Lou left him in. He made the next tackle; he was in on the next tackle; you couldn't move him out of there. He made practically every tackle that day—terrific down field blocking. He was the reason why Columbia won the championship. 

Afterwards, all the guys were pounding him on the back. When they were all done, Lou Little went up to the boy and said, 'Son, I don't understand it. Today you were an all-American. I've never seen you play like this in four straight years. What happened?'

And the boy looked up at his coach and said, 'Coach, you knew my dad died, didn't you?'
'Yes, I handed you the telegram.'
He said, 'You knew he was blind, didn't you?'
'Yes, I've seen you walk him around the campus many times.'
He said, 'Coach, today is the first football game my dad ever saw me play.'

 It makes a difference, friends, when those unseen eyes are watching."

They are watching.
You can do this, Christine, and we will each be here to help you through it.

Much Love,

Your RS Sisters

Quick Fixes!

Have you found it tough to feed your early morning seminary students? 

Do you find you are so busy at night to have a good dinner? 

Tired of feeding your children the same lunches day after day? 


Need quick fix ideas for every meal of the day plus snacks? 

Join us for our Additional Relief Society Meeting on Thursday September 20th from 6:30-8:30. 


We will have lots of ideas, delicious samples of food and hands on classes to 
help in the kitchen. Start brainstorming your favorite quick tips and ideas to share with your 
sisters that night!

Childcare and plenty of food will be provided.