Selma Relief Society

I have diagnosed anxiety. Its fun. (That's sarcasm.) During different times in my life it becomes easier to handle, and harder to handle. When COVID first hit, yup, you guessed it; it exploded. I was trying to find anything to help me calm down and ended up doing a search in LDS tool simply for- Healing. What I find amazing/ ironic/ inspired, is that the first talk I somehow decided to read, was by Dale G Renlund called Family History and Temple Work: Sealing and Healing. Yeah I was skeptical. How on EARTH did those two things go together? SISTERS. They go together. How, I still do not really understand. But I will tell you. I read the talk and loved it. And, embarrassing to admit, for the first time in my life I thought hey, maybe I should do some Family History. I dedicated an hour every Sunday to work on it. I am not good. Or amazing. I am still trying to figure it out. But sisters it WORKS. No my anxiety is not gone, or even perfect. But it helped. It brought the spirit into my...

 Our fourth Sunday lesson was I Believe in Angels by Elder Carlos A Godoy. Here are some highlights, the same highlights we posted on our bulletin boards in the church. I will include a link to the video recording at the end of this post! I Believe in Angels By Elder Carlos A. Godoy Of the Presidency of the Seventy President Gordon B. Hinckley taught: “It is not an easy thing to make the transition incident to joining this Church. It means cutting old ties. It means leaving friends. It may mean setting aside cherished beliefs... In so many cases it means loneliness and even fear of the unknown... ” (“ There Must Be Messengers ,” Ensign, Oct. 1987). As I was trying to adjust to my new life (as a member of the church), a new culture, and new friends, I felt out of place... I knew the Church was true, but I had a hard time feeling part of it. I am sharing these experiences with you...to send a message to all members of the Church. We should remember that it is not easy for new convert...

  Ministering. When we hear we're having another lesson on ministering it's met with the same feeling we would get as youth when we would hear we were having another lesson on chastity. A long drawn out uuuugggghhh.  With the switch done to ministering a few years ago we were told it's "easier" because we don't HAVE to be in the house and we don't HAVE to share a message. The problem is, is that it's more nebulous now. And that makes it harder to feel like we are really doing something. We have check lists for a reason- so we know things are getting done. Our brains like that. (Well mine does.) For every lesson RS gets on ministering, the leaders get the same on how to support and encourage it. And just like you, I always leave them with a quizzical eye thinking, So... What am I suppose to do? That was unhelpful. I've talked to a lot of you in person and phone and text and email. And it always seems to be the same. "Well I'm really bad at ...

 Like our awesome talk outlines, on our bulletin board at church we are also Spotlighting some of YOU! We wanted to give you guys a chance to see one another and get to know one another since we cant all BE together right now. So let me introduce you to... Relief Society Spotlight   Jeanette Shaw How old do you wish you were turning and why? 30- to get it over with already 😂 If you could be voted "the most..." what would you be voted for? Patient What is something that surprises people about you? From the time I first met my husband to the day I got married was 8 months! 9 years and 2 boys later and loving it 😊 What are three things you really love? My family, Color Street, a beautiful day at a park What is your favorite scripture, talk, quote? Hymn? The Spirit of God What is a blessing you have received from membership in the church? My family What is something on your bucket list? To see the Northern Lights When have you experienced the greatest adrenaline rush? Having my...

In case you missed it, our 2nd hour, second Sunday RS lesson was on the talk Becoming Like Him. I made a video and posted them to our new VERY secure YouTube server. You can only get to them with the links below. Video One Video Two Be on the lookout, we plan on making these videos every 2nd and 4th Sunday and emailing out links to them.  But in case watching a video isn't your thing, I had made up an overview of the talk if you will and posted it on our bulletin board at church. (Outside the bishops office.) Here it is! Becoming like Him By Elder Scott D. Whiting Of the Seventy In these times, when “all things [appear to] be in commotion; and … fear [is seemingly] upon all people,” 17 the only antidote, the only remedy, is to strive to be like the Savior… … the Savior’s admonition to be “even as I am” 1 is daunting and seemingly unattainable... you may find it mentally more comfortable to walk a path with no upward incline and little growth. A young minister, Charles M. Sheldon,...

If you guys didn't notice, on our bulletin board each month we are going to feature a recipe. (There is a brown envelope that holds pintable's to take home!) Because feeding people is hard sometimes and its always good to have tried and true yummy things. But for those who aren't going to church to get a printable, we wanted to make sure there are other ways to access them. This months recipe was given to us by the wonderful Leah Kerr, (whom I could not do my calling without.) The Ultimate Creamy Potato Soup from the blog Sugar Spun Run (I cant post a picture because it is copyrighted but trust me, it looks AMAZING. And I have it on good authority from Cheryl Munger that ALL of her children ate it and loved it.) And here is a link to the printable recipe that I made. Make it and enjoy!

The church comes out with yearly themes for our youth and for the primary children, but not for the adults. The stake however, has always encouraged us to come up with a goal or a statement for people to focus on during the year. Last year we chose a scripture from Nephi that said HOLD FAST. This turned out to be more poignant than any of us probably wanted. I asked my presidency to brainstorm some ideas for this year. When we had our last meeting and put all our ideas together it was amazing how similar they all were. And how they all came from our personal goals. Someone whose goal was to remember to "fear not for the Lord thy God is with thee." Someone else who just wanted to get their anxiety in check and find joy. So our Relief Society Theme for 2021 comes from a very personal place in our hearts, and from Doctrine and Covenants chapter 68 verse 6. Wherefore, be of good cheer, and do not fear, for I the Lord am with you, and will stand by you. We hope as we all work to ...