Humanitarian Project

August 19, 2010

7:00pm at the Stake Center

Each Ward should come with 20 sets of:

• 1 Durable cloth bag
• 4 unsharpened pencils
• 1 rubber pencil eraser - approximately 1x2 inches
• 1 pair blunt nosed scissors with metal blades
• 1 pencil sharpener
• 1 straight edge ruler - 12 inches, with metric
• Glued or spiral bound notebooks with lined sheets, 8x10½, or 8½x11 inches. Notebooks should total approximately 450 sheets. Do not include more than 6 notebooks
• 1 set assorted colored pencils at least 12 per set, approximately 7 inches long

http://www.providentliving.org/content/display/0,11666,3473-1-3272-1,00.html

If you have any questions please contact a member of the Stake Relief Society Presidency

August Visiting Teaching Message

Our Responsibility to Be Worthy of Temple Worship

"The covenants we make with the associated ordinances we receive in the temple become our credentials for admission into God's presence. These covenants elevate us beyond the limits of our own power and perspective. We make covenants to show our devotion to build up the kingdom. We become covenant people as we are placed under covenant to God. All the promised blessings are ours through our faithfulness to these covenants. . . .

"What can the women of the Church do to claim the blessings of the temple?

"Through His prophets, the Lord invites those who have not yet received the blessings of the temple to do whatever may be necessary to qualify to receive them. He invites those who have already received these blessings to return as often as possible to enjoy again the experience, to increase their vision and understanding of His eternal plan.

"Let us be worthy to have a current temple recommend. Let us go to the temple to seal our families eternally. Let us return to the temple as often as our circumstances will permit. Let us give our kindred dead the opportunity to receive the ordinances of exaltation. Let us enjoy the spiritual strength and the revelation we receive as we attend the temple regularly. Let us be faithful and make and keep temple covenants to receive the full blessings of the Atonement."¹

Silvia H. Allred, first counselor in the Relief Society general presidency.

From the Scriptures

Isaiah 2:2–3; D&C 109:22–23; 110:8–10