Everyone who teaches in ANY capacity should attend
Date: December 18th 2nd hour topic: Love those you teach. 3rd hour topic: How to reach out to those who don't attend
(Please note those that attend third hour should go directly to the high council room instead of opening exercises to maximize discussion time.)
WARD CHOIR PRACTICES WEEKLY IN THE CHAPEL AT 3:30
ALL ARE WELCOME.
Tithing settlement has begun.
Sign ups are outside of the Bishops office
Mountain View Ward Christmas Project
As a ward we are adopting 8 Refugee Families in conjunction with the
Holiday Giving Campaign 2016
International Rescue Committee
Look for Posters at the church and pick an ornament and purchase the gift listed in the ornament.
In regards to some of the larger items, Jeri Breshears has volunteered to collect money for some of the larger items that are cost prohibitive to some of us. If you'd like to donate $5 or $10 or more towards the purchase of a microwave or Walmart gift card, let Jeri know and she can purchase it as a group gift.
Christmas - Sunday, December 25, 2016
On Christmas Sunday there will be Sacrament Meeting only
11:00 - 12:10
Everyone is welcome to come and worship with us on this beautiful Christmas Day
Thank you
to everyone who has been signing up to feed our wonderful missionaries.
We have just opened up the dates for DECEMBER - Can YOU sign Up ?
Let's make sure these Elders are well taken care of this Holiday Season
PLEASE CLICK {HERE} Take this opportunity to meet our wonderful missionaries
- PLEASE take a moment and sign up
Please help our Elders serving in the Mountain View Ward feel welcome by introducing yourself.They would also enjoy any teaching opportunities you have. Invite them into your homes and allow them to share a message and enjoy the spirit that they bring.
Our ward is responsible for feeding the elders on the ODD days of the month.
Now we can take the time to study and review the messages that were shared
Sacrament Meeting
Kaitlyn Wulff - spoke about "For the Strength of Youth"
Message from the First Presidency
OUR DEAR YOUNG MEN AND YOUNG WOMEN, we have great confidence in you. You are beloved sons and daughters of God and He is mindful of you. You have come to earth at a time of great opportunities and also of great challenges. The standards in this booklet will help you with the important choices you are making now and will yet make in the future. We promise that as you keep the covenants you have made and these standards, you will be blessed with the companionship of the Holy Ghost, your faith and testimony will grow stronger, and you will enjoy increasing happiness.
In all that you do, stay focused on the temple. In the temple you will receive the greatest of all the Lord’s blessings, including marriage for time and all eternity. Keeping the standards in this booklet will help you be worthy to attend the temple, where you can perform sacred ordinances for your ancestors now and make essential covenants for yourself in the future.
Our Father in Heaven has placed great trust in you. He has a work for you to do. Seek His guidance in prayer, and counsel with your parents and leaders. The decisions you make now will set the course for much of what will follow during your mortal life and throughout eternity.
We testify that God lives. It is our fervent prayer that you will remain steadfast and valiant throughout your lives and that you will trust in the Savior and His promises. As you do this, you will be an influence for good in helping to build the kingdom of God and prepare the world for the Second Coming of the Savior.
The First Presidency
Penny Wright -Stake Primary Presidency-Spoke on Families
Penny based her talk off of the APRIL 2015 Talk The Family Is of God
God gave us families to help us become what He wants us to be—
This is how He shares His love, for the fam’ly is of God.
Jared Matkin - spoke on Forgiveness
Is there someone in your life who perhaps needs forgiveness? Is there someone in your home, someone in your family … who has done an unjust or an unkind or an unchristian thing? All of us are guilty of such transgressions, so there surely must be someone who yet needs your forgiveness.” ~ Elder Jeffrey R. Holland ~ Amazed at the Love Jesus Offers Me
“I will try in all I do and say to live the gospel more each day”
(Children’s Songbook, 148).
EXTRA - EXTRA
Mom's Night Out Cookie Exchange
Church Encourages “Small and Simple Acts” on
Worldwide Day of Service
“Serve anyone you want, any way you want” this December 1.
That’s the message of the Church’s Worldwide Day of Service, which kicks off a month-long “Light the World” Christmas initiative encouraging members to share the light of Christ through small, but meaningful acts of service on each of the 25 days before Christmas.
“When people think of Christmas, they often think of lights,” said Bruce Muir, director of emergency response for the Church. “Christmas lights, lighted store windows, tree lights. Christ taught ‘Ye are the light of the world,” and we hope that through small and simple acts of service, we can spread the light of Christ—helping others to feel the love of the Savior through genuine kindness.”
To View the complete stake calendar click {HERE} and log onto LDS.org
Mountain View Ward Christmas Project
As a ward we are adopting 8 Refugee Families in conjunction with the
Holiday Giving Campaign 2016
International Rescue Committee
Look for Posters at the church and pick an ornament and purchase the gift listed in the ornament.
In regards to some of the larger items, Jeri Breshears has volunteered to collect money for some of the larger items that are cost prohibitive to some of us. If you'd like to donate $5 or $10 or more towards the purchase of a microwave or Walmart gift card, let Jeri know and she can purchase it as a group gift.
Thank you
to everyone who has been signing up to feed our wonderful missionaries.
We have just opened up the dates for DECEMBER - Can YOU sign Up ?
Let's make sure these Elders are well taken care of this Holiday Season
PLEASE CLICK {HERE} Take this opportunity to meet our wonderful missionaries
- PLEASE take a moment and sign up
Please help our Elders serving in the Mountain View Ward feel welcome by introducing yourself.They would also enjoy any teaching opportunities you have. Invite them into your homes and allow them to share a message and enjoy the spirit that they bring.
Our ward is responsible for feeding the elders on the ODD days of the month.
Elder Russell M. Nelson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles: “My behavior on the Sabbath constitutes my sign to the Lord of my regard for him and for my covenants with him. … Our activities on the Sabbath will be appropriate when we honestly consider them to be our personal sign of our commitment to the Lord”
Leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are urging members around the world to improve their observance of the Sabbath day {READ HERE}
President Thomas S. Monson, has said: “Although the world has changed, the laws of God remain constant. They have not changed; they will not change. The Ten Commandments are just that-commandments. They are not suggestions. They are every bit as requisite today as they were when God gave them to the children of Israel. {READ HERE}
"Fasting, coupled with mighty prayer, is powerful. It can fill our minds with the revelations of the Spirit. It can strengthen us against times of temptation"
Live the law of the fast.
“In order to increase our ability to hear the voice of the Spirit, we would all do well to fast each fast Sunday and freely give our fast offering to help those in need,”Sister Burton said. Through fasting comes the spirit of prophecy and revelation and the opportunity to be counseled by the Lord.
Dale Davis - spoke on the principle of tithing
“A testimony of the law of tithing comes from living it.”
“Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.” (Mal. 3:8–10)
EXTRA - EXTRA
Mom's Night Out Cookie Exchange
Church Encourages “Small and Simple Acts” on
Worldwide Day of Service
“Serve anyone you want, any way you want” this December 1.
That’s the message of the Church’s Worldwide Day of Service, which kicks off a month-long “Light the World” Christmas initiative encouraging members to share the light of Christ through small, but meaningful acts of service on each of the 25 days before Christmas.
“When people think of Christmas, they often think of lights,” said Bruce Muir, director of emergency response for the Church. “Christmas lights, lighted store windows, tree lights. Christ taught ‘Ye are the light of the world,” and we hope that through small and simple acts of service, we can spread the light of Christ—helping others to feel the love of the Savior through genuine kindness.”
