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Encouraging advice when planning Relief Society activities

                                                      

This blog is all about making your calling easier in Relief Society!  
Serving in the Church should be a great blessing and truly ENRICH our lives.

I'd love to hear from YOU!  What Relief Society activities have you been having this summer?
What activities have been great successes?   Which ones were terrible bombs?

Sometimes when we start to plan a Relief Society activity we feel overwhelmed with all that needs to be done.  Here is some encouraging advice....

                                                               

 

Max Lucado's newest book Great Day Every Day has some excellent advice for all of us searching for success in any endeavor. The following is a short excerpt that reminds us how we can reach our goals one baby step at a time:


"An accomplished Ironman triathlete told me the secret of his success.  He said, “You last the long race by running short ones.”   Don’t swim 2.4 miles; just swim to the next buoy.  Rather than bike 112 miles, ride 10, take a break, and bike 10 more.  Never tackle more than the challenge ahead."

"Didn’t Jesus offer the same counsel?  He said in Matthew 6:34, “So don’t ever worry about tomorrow.  After all, tomorrow will worry about itself.  Each day has enough trouble of its own.” 
When asked how he managed to write so many books, the author explained that he’d never written a book.  All he did was write one page a day."

"Face challenges in stages.  You can’t control your temper forever, but you can control it for the next hour.
Remember, you last the long race by running the short ones!"

Great advice, Max!  Thanks for the reminder!

Fun Family Home Evening Ideas

 

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How about a Relief Society activity that helps moms find ideas for Family Home Evenings?  You could offer classes on games, lessons, refreshments, activities, field trips, crafts, service projects, and even how to inspire a family testimony meeting at home.

Many women hope their husbands will take the lead on holding Family Home Evening, but are often disappointed.  Just in time for Father's Day, my newest book is SIMPLE and helps dads to put together a Family Home Evening in just minutes!  Yay!  Each chapter teaches a gospel principle by using object lessons, games, activities, pictures, songs, and even Church videos.  Easily adapted to any age group, the suggestions for each lesson can be quickly tailored to fit your family.

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There's Gold In Your Veggie Garden!

How about offering some fun gardening classes for Enrichment activities?

If you haven't planted a summer garden yet, it's still not too late! Just plop some of those starter veggies you can get from your local garden store into the ground and, voila, you're good to go. No yard? Try container gardening! In a tough economy, vegetable gardens can help you cut your grocery bill drastically. Besides the economic practicality, knowing how to grow your own food empowers you in a way like nothing else.


Within your garden you will find food, hope, medicine, a sense of great accomplishment, the value of hard work, gratitude for nature, sun on your face, a renewed joy for cooking, and some hidden gems you never knew. Take the cucumber, for example. Look at all of the things that bumpy little vegetable can do:

1. Cucumbers contain most of the vitamins you need every day, just one cucumber contains Vitamin B1, Vitamin B2, Vitamin B3, Vitamin B5, Vitamin B6, Folic Acid, Vitamin C, Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Potassium and Zinc.

2. Feeling tired in the afternoon? Put down the caffeinated soda and pick up a cucumber. Cucumbers are a good source of B Vitamins and Carbohydrates that can provide that quick pick-me-up that can last for hours.

3. Tired of your bathroom mirror fogging up after a shower? Try rubbing a cucumber slice along the mirror, it will eliminate the fog and provide a soothing, spa-like fragrance.

4. Are grubs and slugs ruining your planting beds? Place a few slices in a small pie tin and your garden will be free of pests all season long. The chemicals in the cucumber react with the aluminum to give off a scent undetectable to humans, but drive garden pests crazy and make them flee the area.

5. Looking for a fast and easy way to remove cellulite before going out or to the pool? Try rubbing a slice or two of cucumbers along your problem area for a few minutes, the phytochemicals in the cucumber cause the collagen in your skin to tighten, firming up the outer layer and reducing the visibility of cellulite. Works great on wrinkles too!!!

6. Want to avoid a hangover or headache? Eat a few cucumber slices before going to bed and wake up refreshed and headache free. Cucumbers contain enough sugar, B vitamins and electrolytes to replenish essential nutrients the body lost, keeping everything in equilibrium, avoiding both a hangover and headache!!

7. Looking to fight off that afternoon or evening snacking binge? Eat some cucumber.

8. Have an important meeting or job interview and you realize that you don't have enough time to polish your shoes? Rub a freshly-cut cucumber over the shoe, its chemicals will provide a quick and durable shine that not only looks great but also repels water.

9. Out of WD-40 and need to fix a squeaky hinge? Take a cucumber slice and rub it along the problematic hinge, and voila, the squeak is gone!

10. Stressed out and don't have time for massage, facial or visit to the spa? Cut up an entire cucumber and place it in a boiling pot of water, the chemicals and nutrients from the cucumber with react with the boiling water and be released in the steam, creating a soothing, relaxing aroma that has been shown the reduce stress in new mothers and college students during final exams.

11. Just finish a business lunch and realize you don't have gum or mints? Take a slice of cucumber and press it to the roof of your mouth with your tongue for 30 seconds to eliminate bad breath, the phytochemcials will kill the bacteria in your mouth responsible for causing bad breath.

12. Looking for a 'green' way to clean your faucets, sinks or stainless steel? Take a slice of cucumber and rub it on the surface you want to clean, not only will it remove years of tarnish and bring back the shine, but is won't leave streaks and won't harm you fingers or fingernails while you clean.

13. Using a pen and made a mistake? Take the outside of the cucumber and slowly use it to erase the pen writing, also works great on crayons and markers that the kids have used to decorate the walls!!

Now go out there and get your fingers dirty!

CENTSerely,
Sister Thrifty a/k/a Trina Boice








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Ready Resource for Relief Society Lessons

Whether you're a new Relief Society teacher or a seasoned pro, preparing lessons for Relief Society just got a lot easier with "The Ready Resource for Relief Society"!   The 2011 course of study is the second half of the "Gospel Principles" church handbook.   Trina Boice has written both parts 1 and 2.   

The books provide a lesson summary, pertinent quotes from General Authorities, relevant hynms for each lesson,  attractive handouts that correlate with each lesson, suggested artwork ideas, object lessons and more!

With the groundwork done for you, you can now concentrate on the fun part of giving lessons: personalizing them to the needs of the sisters in your ward.   Take out the stress of preparing lessons, and focus on giving Relief Society lessons that will touch the hearts of your class members.  With invaluable help like this, lesson preparation has never been so easy.

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