FHE Date Auction

No names, no faces, just the promise of a mostly-awkward-but-if-you're-lucky-mildy-good time.  Now that's what I call an auction.  Get ready for all the action on

Monday, September 19th

at Red Mountain Institute

7:00 pm

A bunch of singles wards are getting together under the guise of collecting food for St. Mary's food bank, and you definitely won't want to miss it.

Here's how it's all going down:

1. Sometime before next Monday, fill out a form if you have a cool idea for a date.  **REMEMBER**, you can't be the only one listed on the form -- there must be at least two people on the form for each date (a total of four for a group date).  It's for your own safety.  Any form with only one person will not be auctioned. :(

2. When you get to Red Mountain Institute at 7:00 pm next Monday, bring all the cans you can find and someone will tally your points for you by ounce.  Every ounce of food = 10 points.  As far as I understand, there is no limit to the number of points you can get this way (right?).  Hurray!

3. If you're all like, "I'm a poor college student and need my ramen to survive, so I'll sit this one out," there is hope for you yet!  For doing any of the following, you can get 100 points for each (up to 500 points including any donated food):

• read your scriptures
• visit the temple or temple grounds
• help someone in need
• donate to DI
• go to church on Sunday
• volunteer

As you can see, some of these are pretty loose terms, so get creative with your points!  For some reason, you can also get 500 points if you bring a plate of food to share at the event, which is probably because we value food that we can consume immediately more than anything else.

 

We hope to see your single selves there!  

 

For the Ladies

September Relief Society Night

You Are of Royal Birth

Thursday, September 15, 2011

7:00pm at the church

This Thursday night, please join us as we celebrate something very important... ourselves!  We will also be talking about spiritual things.  Hope to see you there!

Day of Service

To celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Church welfare program, our ward is participating in a worldwide effort to follow the First Presidency's counsel to perform an act of service for the poor and needy.  You can find more information about the event here.

Meanwhile, the service committee is asking that YOU help us come up with a way to follow the prophet:

"We want your ideas!!! Everybody has different interests and connections.  We would love to have your input as we try to develop and carry out a service project for our ward.  Please check out the link provided and leave a comment with ideas you might have!!! We are excited to organize this activity to not only bless those that we will serve but also increase our unity as a ward! :)"

-- Katherine and Howie

Back to School Cool Pool Party

Are you depressed about school starting too?  Come on out to the pool party tonight at Shepherd from 7 to 10pm!  There'll be music, swimming, popsicles, and probably some speedos if I know our ward like I think I do.

Will there be lifeguards?

Click here for directions.


Ben Whipple says, "The man or woman of your dreams will be waiting there for you, all you have to do is make it happen!"  He lives by that motto, and just look at him now!

August Book Drive

Listen up everyone!  We only have SIX MORE DAYS until the end of the RS book drive!

This drive is a service activity through the organization Loving Through Literacy, which will help the books we donate find their way to a new children's library in Liberia, classrooms in Missouri, or the community library on the San Carlos Apache Reservation.

Donating your books is easy!  Now through Monday, August 22, there will be a trailer with a book drop in the stake center parking lot.  Wonderful Angie Johnson has also volunteered to take any books that you bring to church or FHE down to the trailer for y'all.


Here's the rundown on what to donate:

-Books that are in good condition, ie., pages and cover intact, no writing inside.
-No books requiring batteries.
-All types of textbooks and teaching materials accepted.
-Encyclopedia sets are are welcome, especially children’s.
-No magazines.
-CD’s and DVD’s may be donated.  No VHS videos or scratched disks.  


**Note:  Eyeglasses of all types are also needed.  Please do not put in book drop but give directly to a member of your RS Presidency or representative for this service activity. 

For further information, go to this web site:  http://lovingthroughliteracy.com/

Enrichment Anti-Stress Night

This one's for the ladies:

2nd Ward Enrichment

Anti-Stress Night

Wednesday, August 17, 7pm

At Angie Johnson's House

We're going to talk about how to de-stress, have some fun, and probably eat a lot of food.  Hope to see you there!