Clothing Exchange & Visiting Teaching Interviews

We wanted to get some info out about the clothing exchange and VT interviews which will be held on Wednesday the 29th of July.


Clothing Exchange Info:
- We encourage you to come and "shop" the clothing assortment and take home some items. The price is right! - It's all FREE ☺

- You do NOT need to donate something to take something home. We do not want to be left with lots of items, so please come.

- Please be selective in the clothing you do donate, be sure your donations aren't stained, or excessively worn.

- IF you are able to, please bring your clothing on hangers. ALL sizes are encouraged. If you aren't able to bring them on hangers, that's ok, just bring them anyway.

- DROP OFF OPTIONS - You may drop off your clothing at 6pm the evening of exchange in the gym, OR You may bring them on Sunday to the Relief Society Room. You may also drop clothes off to Sis. Crockett or Sis. Cockrum throughout the week.

- So far we have collections of baby clothes & shoes, little girls clothing, and ladies clothing. This event is for ANY clothing. Men, Women, Teens, children and baby. So get in those closets and clean out that clutter. ☺

-If anyone would like to help us set up earlier in the day that Wednesday please let me know @ danasteven@conwaycorp.net . We can use your help.

- You may also invite a friend to come participate,if you'd like.

Visiting Teaching Interview Info:

- VT interviews start at 7 p.m., this usually just takes a few minutes.

- If you have any Visiting Teaching concerns or questions, bring those with you to the interview.

-The interviews are for all visiting teachers even if you are not participating in the clothing exchange. If you are unable to meet that evening, please let us know what would be a good time to meet for an interview.

Note from the Presidency

Dear Sisters,
We have our Stake Temple day scheduled this month....Please arrange your schedules so that you can attend! The Lord has promised us blessings untold if we will righteously attend the Temple. I would dare say that we all are in need of the blessings received there.
I would like to challenge you to help another sister get to the Temple this month. We all have over scheduled lives....but if someone that cares about us would encourage us to go...then possibly we would! Ask around and get someone else to go with you! ....I have 5 extra seats in my van, Dana has the same and we will be glad to have you ride with us...We can have a Happy Day together!
Come on Girls....LET"S Go!!!!!!!!!!

Love, Your Relief Society Presidency...Carol, Gloria, Cathy and Dana
p.s. Thanks to all that pinch hit in our absence....you are awesome!

Words from Gordon B. Hinckley

"I would hope that we might go to the house of the Lord a little more frequently. . . . In this noisy, bustling, competitive world, what a privilege it is to have a sacred house where we may experience the sanctifying influence of the Spirit of the Lord."

The Gift to Those Who Enter The Temple

"John A. Widtsoe wrote: 'I believe that the busy person on the farm, in the shop, in the office, or in the household, who has his worries and troubles, can solve his problems better and more quickly in the house of the Lord than anywhere else. If he will . . . [do] the temple work for himself and for his dead, he will confer a mighty blessing upon those who have gone before, and . . . a blessing will come to him, for at the most unexpected moments, in or out of the temple will come to him, as a revelation, the solution of the problems that vex his life. That is the gift that comes to those who enter the temple properly.' ("Temple Worship," The Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine, Apr. 1921, pp. 63-64.) "Revelation also comes in receiving greater understanding of the endowment as one seeks to comprehend its meaning.
- David B. Haight, "Temples and Work Therein,"

Message for July

Temple Worship: The Source of Strength and Power in Times of Need
Elder Richard G. Scott Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

Because I love you, I am going to speak to you heart to heart, without mincing words. I have seen that many times individuals have made great sacrifices to go to a distant temple. But when a temple is built close by, within a short time, many do not visit it regularly. I have a suggestion: When a temple is conveniently nearby, small things may interrupt your plans to go to the temple. Set specific goals, considering your circumstances, of when you can and will participate in temple ordinances. Then do not allow anything to interfere with that plan. This pattern will guarantee that those who live in the shadow of a temple will be as blessed as are those who plan far ahead and make a long trip to the temple.
“Many were the blessings we had received in the house of the Lord, which has caused us joy and comfort in the midst of all our sorrows and enabled us to have faith in God, knowing He would guide us and sustain us in the unknown journey that lay before us. For if it had not been for the faith and knowledge that was bestowed upon us in that temple by the influence and help of the Spirit of the Lord, our journey would have been like one taking a leap in the dark. To start out on such a journey in the winter as it were and in our state of poverty, it would seem like walking into the jaws of death. But we had faith in our Heavenly Father, and we put our trust in Him feeling that we were His chosen people and had embraced His gospel, and instead of sorrow, we felt to rejoice that the day of our deliverance had come.”2
Now I would like to speak of the special meaning the temple has for me. Part of this message is going to be sensitive, so I will appreciate your prayers as I give it so that I do not become too emotional.
Fourteen years ago the Lord took my wife beyond the veil. I love her with all my heart, but I have never complained because I know it was His will. I have never asked why but rather what is it that He wants me to learn from this experience. I believe that is a good way to face the unpleasant things in our lives, not complaining but thanking the Lord for the trust He places in us when He gives us the opportunity to overcome difficulties.
We had the blessing of having children. A daughter, the first child, continues to be an enormous blessing in our lives. A couple of years later a son we named Richard was born. A few years later a daughter was born. She died after living only a few minutes.
Our son, Richard, was born with a heart defect. We were told that unless that could be cured, there was little probability that he would live more than two or three years. This was so long ago that techniques now used to repair such defects were unknown. We had the blessing of having a place where doctors agreed to attempt to perform the needed surgery. The surgery had to be done while his little heart was beating.
The surgery was performed just six weeks after the birth and death of our baby daughter. When the operation finished, the principal surgeon came in and said it was a success. And we thought, “How wonderful! Our son will have a strong body, be able to run and walk and grow!” We expressed deep gratitude to the Lord. Then about 10 minutes later, the same doctor came in with an ashen face and told us, “Your son has died.” Apparently the shock of the operation was more than his little body could endure.
Later, during the night, I embraced my wife and said to her, “We do not need to worry, because our children were born in the covenant. We have the assurance that we will have them with us in the future. Now we have a reason to live extremely well. We have a son and a daughter who have qualified to go to the celestial kingdom because they died before the age of eight.” That knowledge has given us great comfort. We rejoice in the knowledge that all seven of our children are sealed to us for time and all eternity.
That trial has not been a problem for either of us because, when we live righteously and have received the ordinances of the temple, everything else is in the hands of the Lord. We can do the best we can, but the final outcome is up to Him. We should never complain, when we are living worthily, about what happens in our lives.
Fourteen years ago the Lord decided it was not necessary for my wife to live any longer on the earth, and He took her to the other side of the veil. I confess that there are times when it is difficult not to be able to turn and talk to her, but I do not complain. The Lord has allowed me, at important moments in my life, to feel her influence through the veil.
What I am trying to teach is that when we keep the temple covenants we have made and when we live righteously in order to maintain the blessings promised by those ordinances, then come what may, we have no reason to worry or to feel despondent.
I know that I will have the privilege of being with that beautiful wife, whom I love with all my heart, and with those children who are with her on the other side of the veil because of the ordinances that are performed in the temple. What a blessing to have once again on the earth the sealing authority, not only for this mortal life but for the eternities. I am grateful that the Lord has restored His gospel in its fulness, including the ordinances that are required for us to be happy in the world and to live everlastingly happy lives in the hereafter.