For God So Love The World...

   John 11: 25-26

Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:

And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?

 Do I believe it?  

With every fiber of my being!

180th General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

Today I went to the branch and watched two sessions of  general conference.

The first session was from 11 till 1, home for lunch and back for the 3-5 session.

The speakers were inspiring, the music was beautiful and the spirit was strong.  I loved every talk that I heard.  I feel so blessed to belong to this church and know what I know.  I only wish my entire family could have been here with me so we could listen together.  

Hope your day was as lovely as mine.

Relief Society Meeting and Birthday Party

Tuesday the 16th we celebrated the birthday of the Relief Society at our monthly evening meeting.  We also honored past presidents still residing in our branch boundaries, gave out a couple of pat-on-the-back awards and a certificate and blue ribbon to the visiting teachers.  Peggy did a lovely job on the program and awards. Thanks Peg!  We had a salad bar with everything you could think of for a salad along with macaroni/shrimp salad, bowtie pasta salad and potato salad.  Robin and daughter-in-law Elizabeth did the cupcakes and pretty glasses with candy. Thanks ladies!  Kathleen, the education counselor, gave out the pat-on-the-back awards, Anita, the secretary and VT coordinator did the VT awards and I gave out the presidents recognitions award.  Nearly everyone helped clean up... a big thanks for all who helped.  

We had several quilts on display that we have put together over the last few months that will be donated to the oncology unit at out local hospital.

All in all it was a lovely evening with good food and fellowship all around. 

Empty Nesters & a Shamrock Cake

 

Last night was  our Empty Nesters Family Home Evening group.  I made my casserole and went over and to my surprise Peggy came in with this birthday cake for moi!  Actually they're cupcakes and as you can see the other half of the shamrock pair is gone.  It was delicious! Peggy said there were no candles because the fire department couldn't put out that much fire.  She's a character! I took this photo when I got home as I had no camera with me.  I was so tickled they thought of me.

Our group consists of 2 senior missionaries (hsb & wife) , 2 Elders (male junior missionaries), and the  rest of us which usually consists of 5.  We are a happy group of about 9.

We have a potluck every Monday evening at 7, fellowship,  and at present we're working on Family History.  Our FH leader was under the weather last night so we had a history quiz supplemented by Hershey miniatures.  We did  pretty well, I'm uncertain if it was because we're really smart or we were really inspired by the chocolate.! 

I received this yesterday by post from my Canadian daughter for my birthday which is the 3rd.

My daughters and I love anything Jane Austen or English.  I have the original Cranford and was tickled to receive this one.  I had mentioned to Cheyenne only recently that the Return to Cranford was on our local PBS station, I had no idea it was even out and voila here it is.  The girls have sent me several movies over the years and I've watched them many times over and enjoyed them anew with each viewing.  Thank you!