Are YOU one in 50,000? Don't forget this is the weekend for the Worldwide Indexing Event where the church aim to have 50,000 indexers and arbitrators taking part in a 24 hour period! In the UK our 24 hours goes from Monday 01:00am to Tuesday 12.59am. Please take part and help the project be a success. You only have to index ONE batch (or as many as you wish) to be part of it. If you have never indexed before Sister Beverly Roddie can talk you through how to register.
For those of you with girls in YW - a reminder that the activity this Tuesday is a trip to Felixstowe, leaving the chapel at 7pm and returning at 9pm. Please ensure your girls are at the chapel ready to leave on time!
The next RS activity will also be in Felixstowe for our annual fish and chip evening - Wed 20th August.
The cleaning team for this week is: Torres Family, Watling Family, Marta and the Gull Family.
Sister Joanne Stockill needs some help this week with care for Deborah between the hours of 9-5. If you can help for a couple of hours please get in touch with Jo, she would very much appreciate it.
Lesson:
We had a wonderful teacher today - Sister Carissa Giles who recently moved to Ipswich with her family. She did a fabulous job teaching Chapter 14 'The Gift of the Holy Ghost' from the President Joseph Fielding Smith manual.
What a precious gift we each have the opportunity of receiving as we take the decision to be baptised into the Church, the gift of a companion and friend, in the Holy Ghost. We know he is the third member of the Godhead, is a spirit and can be the greatest blessing to each of us.
Carissa shared this lovely video with us as we began to think about the role of the Holy Ghost in our own lives and what part we play in keeping him there?
We heard some lovely experiences today of what can happen when we choose to make some quiet time in our lives for the Spirit to speak to us...we heard of sisters who were led to the missionaries, of sisters who were protected in dangerous situations and sisters who felt comfort and peace. As Carissa shared, every good thing comes from the Lord, so it is worth us following every prompting we receive. How do YOU see the Holy Ghost in YOUR life? How do YOU feel His promptings?
President Smith said this: "It is my judgement that there are many members of this church who have been baptised for the remission of their sins and who have had hands laid upon their heads for the gift of the Holy Ghost, but who have never received that gift - that is, the manifestations of it. Why? Because they have never put themselves in order to receive these manifestations. They have never humbled themselves. They have never taken the steps that would prepare them for the companionship of the Holy Ghost. Therefore, they go through life without that knowledge, they are lacking in understanding. When those who are cunning and crafty in their deceit come to them criticizing the authorities of the church and the doctrines of the church, these weak members do not have understanding enough, information enough, and enough of the guidance of the Spirit of the Lord to resist false doctrines and teachings. They listen and think that perhaps they have made a mistake, and the first thing you know they find their way out of the church, because they do not have understanding."
Sisters - do we understand the gift we have been given and how to prepare our lives to be worthy of it?
We finished today with the following video and a beautiful testimony from Carissa of the Holy Ghost and the blessing it has been in her life.
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