7 - Brunch Bunch @ 10:00am at IHOP (off 12th and Washington)
12 - R.S. Quarterly Dinner and Activity @ 6:30."A Night of Service.” We will be mending hymn books, quilting and writing testimonies in Books of Mormon. Dinner will be served. Childcare will be provided.
17 - Book Club @ 6:00 ~ We will be reading “The Lady in the Tower” by Alison Weir
18 - Picnic in the Park. Listen for announcements for the location. I don't know if we were able to get Camp Atoka for the picnic. I will update the blog as soon as I find out.
21 - Ward Temple day. Meet in chapel at 4pm.
26 - Needle and Hook Group @ 6:30. Carol Hale has agreed to help teach needle quilting, so we will be setting up the service quilt that when finished will be donated to the humanitarian service center. (This same quilt will be set up at our next big R.S. Meeting as well.)
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Our Responsibility to Be Worthy of Temple Worship
From the Scriptures
Isaiah 2:2–3; D&C 109:22–23; 110:8–10
"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 Our History
President Gordon B. Hinckley (1910–2008) taught that Relief Society grew out of sisters' desire to worship in temples:
"During the construction of the Kirtland Temple the women were called upon to grind their china into small particles to be mixed with the plaster used on the walls of the temple, which would catch the light of the sun and the moon and reflect that light to beautify the appearance of the building.
"In those times, when there was very little of money but an abundance of faith, the workmen gave of their strength and resources to the construction of the Lord's house. The women supplied them with food, the best they could prepare. Edward W. Tullidge reported that while the women were sewing the temple veils, Joseph Smith, observing them, said, 'Well, sisters, you are always on hand. The sisters are always first and foremost in all good works. Mary was first at the resurrection; and the sisters now are the first to work on the inside of the temple.' . . .
"Again in Nauvoo, when the temple was under construction, a few women joined together to make shirts for the workmen. It was out of these circumstances that twenty of them gathered on Thursday, 17 March 1842, in the upper room of the Prophet's store."2
What Can I Do?
What support can I offer to help my sisters prepare for and attend the temple?
How can I exemplify the heritage of the early sisters who sacrificed to receive temple blessings?
How can I claim the blessings of the temple?
For more information, go to www.reliefsociety.lds.org.
Notes
1. Silvia H. Allred, "Holy Temples, Sacred Covenants," Liahona and Ensign, Nov. 2008, 113, 114.
2. Gordon B. Hinckley, " 'Ambitious to Do Good'," Ensign, Mar. 1992, 2.
Isaiah 2:2–3; D&C 109:22–23; 110:8–10
"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 Our History
President Gordon B. Hinckley (1910–2008) taught that Relief Society grew out of sisters' desire to worship in temples:
"During the construction of the Kirtland Temple the women were called upon to grind their china into small particles to be mixed with the plaster used on the walls of the temple, which would catch the light of the sun and the moon and reflect that light to beautify the appearance of the building.
"In those times, when there was very little of money but an abundance of faith, the workmen gave of their strength and resources to the construction of the Lord's house. The women supplied them with food, the best they could prepare. Edward W. Tullidge reported that while the women were sewing the temple veils, Joseph Smith, observing them, said, 'Well, sisters, you are always on hand. The sisters are always first and foremost in all good works. Mary was first at the resurrection; and the sisters now are the first to work on the inside of the temple.' . . .
"Again in Nauvoo, when the temple was under construction, a few women joined together to make shirts for the workmen. It was out of these circumstances that twenty of them gathered on Thursday, 17 March 1842, in the upper room of the Prophet's store."2
What Can I Do?
What support can I offer to help my sisters prepare for and attend the temple?
How can I exemplify the heritage of the early sisters who sacrificed to receive temple blessings?
How can I claim the blessings of the temple?
For more information, go to www.reliefsociety.lds.org.
Notes
1. Silvia H. Allred, "Holy Temples, Sacred Covenants," Liahona and Ensign, Nov. 2008, 113, 114.
2. Gordon B. Hinckley, " 'Ambitious to Do Good'," Ensign, Mar. 1992, 2.
Happy Birthday!
1 - Iris McCrary
3 - Alisa Valletta
4 - Betty Adams
6 - Shaelynn Barnett, Marcie Moore, Lydia Chatelain
7 - Rachel Budge, Fawn Etta Bennett
12 - Maria Epperson
13 - Melanie Corbin
16 - Monica Jenkins
18 - Michelle Wilkinson
19 - Emily Anderson
20 - Brandy Tucker
21 - Lynette Marsee
22 - Jordan Mercier
23 - Julie Brewer, Jennifer Keys, Tanya Platt
25 - Megan Brey
28 - Jeanette Pope
30 - Daniela Quintana
31 - Donna Kearney
Looking ahead ~
Sept.
1 - Jenny Venegas
2 - Helen Wight
3 - Staci Branch
4 - Marcie Gilgen, Kathryn Horrocks
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