Thanksgiving Feast

Sorry, I forgot to post about the Thanksgiving Feast. It was a huge success and we had a lot of great food. Thank you to everybody who participated and came to enjoy each other's company. With all the leftovers we had we were able to help out 7 families!! I'm sure they were all very grateful. If you have any suggestions about what we can do better next year, or what you really liked this year, please let someone on the activities committee know or a member of the Relief Society Presidency know. Kudos go out to the youth who did a fabulous job of serving the food. Thanks to everyone who stayed after to help clean up. The craft committee did a wonderful job on the centerpieces and the cooking committee made the delicious rolls so be sure to thank them for that. Thanks to Sally Evenson for letting us use her big kitchen and making the process of making rolls really quick and easy! I've never made rolls that turned out perfectly before.
Just to look ahead, we have the Relief Society Christmas dinner on Dec. 3 and the Ward Christmas Party on Dec. 10. Let the festivities begin!

RS Christmas Dinner

Don't forget!! Thursday Dec. 3 is the Relief Society Christmas Dinner. This year we are doing the production of "Women at the Well" and the men and young women are invited to join us. There will be dinner, some very inspirational music, and of course dessert. Starts at 6pm in the Cultural Hall so be there or be square! There will also be a children's class provided for those who need babysitting.

Fall Festival was Fabulous!

All who attended the Fall Festival will agree that it was a fabulous time! The Young Women did a great job putting that together. Not only were there cookies and crafts, but yummy refreshments, a fishing pond, donut eat cupcake walk, face painting and a haunted house put on by the young men that my kids talked about for days! Maddie said that her favorite part was the craft and fishing pond and the donut eat. Emma liked the craft and the donuts. Nathan can't really express himself but we had to keep chasing him out of the cupcake walk! Once he went to the fishing pond and got a black bouncy ball we were then chasing his ball and him away from the walk. Costumes were fantastic and it was fun to see so many there. Hope you had a fun and safe Halloween! Now it's time to gear up for the Thanksgiving Feast!

Fall Festival

Don't forget the Ward Fall Festival is this Thursday, the 29th, at 7pm. There will be no dinner but plenty of treats! We will have sugar cookies for decorating, face painting, cupcake walk, a craft for the kids and even a haunted house! So come and enjoy. Costumes are encouraged but please no masks and there will be no trick or treating. Hope to see you all there!

Sugar Cookies

Don't forget that this Tuesday night we are meeting at North Hampton at 7pm to make sugar cookies for the ward Fall Festival. Even if you are not on the cooking committee you can still come and help because we need a lot of them! If you would like to carpool you can make arrangements on your own or meet at Cara's house at 6:45. See you there!

Drug Awareness Night

We had a successful Drug Awareness presentation given by Officer Anderson (Lacey Silverio's brother) who was gracious enough to come out. He talked in depth about what we can do as a community and neighborhood to start a Neighborhood Watch and how we can organize ourselves for that. He explained the signs to look for that suspicious activity is going on and then how we can help the police department protect us. He brought a few of the main drugs to show us what they look like and how they are being used and distributed so that we can look for signs among our children and their friends. He also talked to us about how we can keep our children safe by knowing who our neighbors are, identity kits, and stressing the importance of stranger danger. If you would like any of the pamphlets or identity kits please contact someone in the Relief Society Presidency and we will get it to you. For those of you who missed it, you missed some great information and great pumpkin pie and cider!

Update

Sorry ladies, it's been a while since I've had a chance to sit and blog. First of all, let me extend a very warm welcome to our new Relief Society President, Sister Kathryn Proctor! We are very excited to have her spunky spirit and know that she will do great things for us! A HUGE THANK YOU to Sister Debra Hansen for all of the wonderful work she has done with our Relief Society thus far. You will be greatly missed. We hope that you will be able to accomplish the things that you need to do for your family and yourself and know that we love you! Ok, so we had a wonderful conference, a really good lesson on Testimonies. Don't forget that the Stake President and the Bishop have challenged us to strengthen our testimonies and share them at least once in the coming year. Watch out because I heard a rumor that the Bishop may just be calling up random people to share the testimonies! So, do it when YOU want! This week's lesson was given by Sister Silverio and it was wonderful. We talked about the importance of Marriage and the different roles that we play as husband, wife, father, mother, son and daughter. The importance of Family and why we do the things we do. We had a very good discussion amongst sisters.
This week the sewing committee will be meeting at Sis. Leann Hansen's house to make blankets for the cold sisters in our ward. Wednesday night is really important because we will be having a guest speaker, Officer Anderson, come and speak to us about drug awareness, neighborhood watch and halloween safety. So you do not want to miss this! ALL are invited...men, women and children. This is important for all of us to know. Invite your neighbors as this is a community issue. Of course there will be refreshments afterwards! That starts at 7pm on Wednesday in the Relief Society Room.
Thursday is the YW Evening Of Exellence and the Stake has invited ALL Women to attend. That is at 7pm at the Stake Center.
The cooking group will be meeting next Tuesday to make sugar cookies for the Ward Fall Festival. Please come and help us get ready. The Craft committee will also be putting together a craft for the kids to do at the festival and all help is appreciated.

We love you sisters and hope that you will spark the spirit of service in your hearts. We have many needs in our ward, some of which I'm sure are yours, and we try to reach out to all, but our arms can only go so far. Please help us when called upon and not only to DO things, but SUPPORT and PARTICIPATE as well. Have a great week! It's a busy one!