RS Newsletter: 8/13/22

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Take your Cs

A recent favorite quote: "nobody's going to bring you a casserole because you couldn't find a parking spot." We could make that statement in a hundred similar ways... because your coworker was short with you, because the wait at the post office was 30 minutes, because your cat coughed up a hairball on the carpet (again). 


(Okay, sometimes your ministering sister shows up with a casserole just because. But still.) 


The quote is from Dr. Samantha Boardman who suggests "it's this accumulation of everyday things that... build up and take the biggest toll on our physical and our mental health."


She suggests a simple formula for countering the "everyday things" -- The 3 C's:

  • Connecting with others
  • Contributing to something beyond yourself
  • Challenging yourself in some way

Probably not a revelation here, but a good reminder. Get your C's!



What we’re talking about


Jen Hammond will lead our Sunday RS discussion of Elder Patrick Kearon's conference address, "He is Risen with Healing in His Wings: We Can be more than conquerors." In preparation for this discussion you might think about times in your own life where you felt like you were living a survival story... How did you receive help from the Savior?

"Jesus specializes in the seemingly impossible. 

He came here to make the impossible possible, the irredeemable redeemable, 

to heal the unhealable, to right the unrightable, to promise the unpromisable. 

And He’s really good at it. In fact, He’s perfect at it."




What we’re reading

This week our Come Follow Me reading is Psalms 1–2; 8; 19–33; 40; 46, “The Lord Is My Shepherd.”  



Stake Conference... it's just around the corner

 

Presiding: Elder Anthony D. Perkins of the Seventy

Springville Stake Center (245 S. 600 E.)

Adult Session: Saturday, August 20 @ 7:00 pm.

Ward/Stake Council Leadership Training: Sunday, August 21 @ 7:30 am.

General Session: Sunday, August 21 @ 10:00 am. 




Happy Birthday to you

  • ·      Linda Hansink, August 1   
  • ·      Nakole Scott, August 3
  • ·      Kathleen Sheffield, August 5
  • ·      Lindsey Mortensen, August 6
  • ·      Sue Grassley, August 7
  • ·      Estie Weisler, August 25            
  • ·      Lisa Marshall, September 2 
  • ·      Syndey Jarman, September 5
  • ·      Joan Arnold, September 6
  • ·      Heidi Mills, September 6


We appreciate the goodness and love you bring-  
            --your RS presidency

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