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YM Spaghetti Dinner and Cake Auction

 Oh. My. Deliciousness! Everything looked so incredibly yummy... I was completely unprepared! 

We have some very talented Bakers in the Valdosta area!! 

Congrats to all the big winners of the night, and especially to the Scouts. Have fun at Camp, boys! 

Thanks to everyone that helped with set up and take down, those that donated their goods, and for those that came and helped support the Young Men.

Celebrating 170 Years of Relief Society

A HUGE "Thank You" to everyone that helped prepare, helped set up/take down, was in attendance and participated! (And to those helping in Nursery as well!)

Resurrection Rolls activity and treat

A great way to share the story of Jesus’ resurrection with children of all ages. Enjoy making these and may the miracle of our risen Christ bring you hope.

Preheat Oven to 350 degrees

Ingredients:
1 can Crescent rolls
1/4C Melted butter
8 Large marshmallows
2TBS Cinnamon
2TBS Sugar

Give each child a triangle of crescent rolls. The crescent roll represents the cloth that Jesus was wrapped in.

Read Matthew 27:57-61

1. Give each child a marshmallow. This represents Jesus.
2. Have him/her dip the marshmallow in melted butter. This represents the oils of embalming.
3. Now dip the buttered marshmallow in the cinnamon and sugar which represents the spices used to anoint the body.
4. Then wrap up the coated marshmallow tightly in the crescent roll (not like a typical crescent roll up, but bring the sides up and seal the marshmallow inside.) This represents the wrapping of Jesus' body after death.
5. Place in a 350 degree oven for 10-12 minutes. (The oven represents the tomb)
6. Let the rolls cool slightly. The children can open their rolls (cloth) and discover that Jesus is no longer there, HE IS RISEN!!!! (The marshmallow melts and the crescent roll is puffed up, but empty.)

Read Matthew 28:5-8

***NOTE***

Try cutting each marshmallow in half first, and instead of putting rolls straight on a baking sheet, put them into muffin liners. Marshmallows may not ooze out as much this way. Enjoy! 

April Visiting Teaching Message

Love, Watch  Over and Strengthen

Like the Savior, visiting teachers minister one by one (see 3 Nephi 11:15). We know we are    successful in our ministering as visiting teachers when our sisters can say: (1) my visiting teacher helps me grow spiritually; (2) I know my visiting teacher cares deeply about me and my family; and (3) if I have problems, I know my visiting teacher will take action without waiting to be asked.

How can we as visiting teachers love, watch over, and strengthen a sister? Following are nine suggestions found in chapter 7 of Daughters in My Kingdom: The History and Work of Relief Society to help visiting teachers minister to their sisters:

-Pray daily for her and her family.

-Seek inspiration to know her and her family.

-Visit her regularly to learn how she is doing and to comfort and strengthen her.

-Stay in frequent contact through visits, phone calls, letters, e-mail, text messages, and simple acts of kindness.

-Greet her at Church meetings.

-Help her when she has an emergency, illness, or other urgent need.

-Teach her the gospel from the scriptures and the Visiting Teaching Messages.

-Inspire her by setting a good example.

-Report to a Relief Society leader about their service and the sister’s spiritual and temporal well-being.

From Our History

“Visiting teaching has become a vehicle for Latter-day Saint women worldwide to love, nurture, and serve—to ‘act according to those sympathies which God has planted in [our] bosoms,’ as Joseph Smith taught.”

A sister who had recently been widowed said of her visiting teachers: “They listened. They comforted me. They wept with me. And they hugged me. … [They] helped me out of the deep despair and depression of those first few months of loneliness.”

Help with temporal tasks is also a form of ministering. At the October 1856 general conference, President Brigham Young announced that handcart pioneers were stranded in deep snow 270–370 miles (435–595 km) away. He called for the Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City to rescue them and to “attend strictly to those things which we call temporal.”

Lucy Meserve Smith recorded that the women took off their warm underskirts and stockings right there in the tabernacle and piled them into wagons to send to the freezing pioneers. Then they gathered bedding and clothing for those who would eventually come with few belongings. When the handcart companies arrived, a building in the town was “loaded with provisions for them.”

What Can I Do?

How can I know what my sisters need?

How will my sisters know that I care deeply about them?