Sister Maureen Folley needs to go to Norwich for some dental work under sedation on Wednesday 22nd January. She is in need of a sister who can take her there and back. If you can help please speak to Maureen.
We have our first Enrichment Meeting of the year on January 29th at 7.30pm, more details to follow.
Carolyn Smith was baptised yesterday and it appears someone has taken the dress home to wash but we don't know who! If you have the dress can you please let a member of the presidency know. Thank you
Lesson:
Today was the first lesson from the Teachings of the Prophets: Joseph Fielding Smith, Chapter One Our Father in Heaven.
President Smith noted the amazing discoveries and inventions that had happened in his lifetime but made an interesting comment: 'All of these have not drawn men nearer to God! Nor created in their hearts humility and the spirit of repentance....faith has not increased in the world, nor has righteousness, nor obedience to God.'
He then went on to share with the Saints that the nature of God and how wonderfully blessed we are to have a true knowledge of a loving Heavenly Father. In our class we were asked to choose one of the six topics in the lesson and choose a paragraph that spoke to our heart and strengthened the testimony we have of our Father in Heaven. Click HERE and you can have a look and do this exercise at home - we found some real treasures about the nature of God and our relationship with Him.
An example of a couple of the quotes we shared and discussed were these:
"I feel most assuredly that our Father in Heaven is far more interested in a soul - one of His children - than it is possible for an earthly father to be in one of His children. His love for us is greater than can be the love of an earthly parent for His offspring."
"It was never the intention of our Father in Heaven to leave men to grope and feel their way in darkness and that without any light to guide them and expect them under such conditions to find their way back into His kingdom and into His holy presence. That is not the way of the Lord. All down the ages from the beginning our Father in Heaven has shown His kindness for His children and has been willing to give them direction."
Sister Graca Serra shared her testimony of how wonderful it is that through the First Vision we were given a wonderful and clear knowledge of the nature of our God, that He is a personage and in very deed our Father. How blessed we are to be in the hands of a God who is all powerful, all knowing and all merciful - how very safe we are in His care.
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