Next weekend is Stake Conference. The meetings will be as follows:
- Saturday 3pm - Priesthood Leadership Meeting
- Saturday 6pm - Session for all 12+
- Sunday 10am - General session from Ipswich Chapel (to be broadcast to Colchester, Cambridge and Chelmsford Chapels)
Saturday May 17th is the Stake Women's Day. It is always a fantastic day and all Sisters and Laurels are invited to attend.
Please can you ensure your VT figures and reports are passed to Lucy Dowling asap.
There is a London Temple District SA temple week coming up on 2nd-6th June. Activities are planned for the entire week, including FHE, a welcome dinner and firesides. If you want any further information please speak to Sara who can give you relevant contact details.
Elder Thiago Pereira returns shortly from his mission and his family are having a party to welcome him home on Saturday 10th May at 6pm. We have all been invited to come along.
Brother Neil Klotz has a large Continental King Size bed available if anyone would like it. It measures 2M by 2M. He also has duvet covers etc to fit the bed. If you are interested please speak to Neil.
Lesson:
Todays lesson was taken from Elder D Todd Christofferson's talk The Moral Force of Women from October 2013 General Conference.
Click here to see a video / read the talk
It was a wonderfully uplifting and inspirational talk about the importance of the Lord's daughters and the role we can and need to play in the world today.
Elder Christofferson said "Women bring with them into the world a certain virtue, a divine gift that makes them adept at instilling such qualities as faith, courage, empathy and refinement in relationships" and then went onto share some wonderful examples of women who had really affected his own life - moments that were so important to him that they had never been forgotten.
Is it possible WE too could be that kind of an influence on those around us? Especially when not assigned to do so, but purely out of love?
The talk reminds us however that of course this role women play is under attack by the world today in lots of ways, 3 of which were discussed specifically:
1. Devaluation of marriage and motherhood and homemaking as a career.
2. Attitudes towards human sexuality - including the topics of abortion, and dressing immorally
3. A push for equality and to erase all differences between the masculine and feminine traits
Clearly these all come from Satan and are not what the Lord desires of His daughters. Sister Margaret D Nadauld (a former General YW President) said this:
"The world has enough women who are tough, we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are coarse, we need women who are kind. There are enough women who are rude, we need women who are refined. We have enough women of fame and fortune, we need more women of faith. We have enough greed, we need more goodness. We have enough vanity, we need more virtue. We have enough popularity, we need more purity."
Elder Christofferson's plea to us is to 'protect and cultivate the moral force that is within you'.
Annie spoke of a seed and how it needs to be cultivated to become all it can be, all that it has the potential to be and likened this to us as women. She asked us to all to write down one Christlike quality - and determine two ways we can improve on that, on how we truly can cultivate ourselves and be the daughters the Lord wants us to be.
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