With the holiday season upon us, it is easy for us to miss sisters for a few weeks and assume they are on holiday. Please keep a special eye out for the sisters on your VT list and let the Presidency know of any issues that arise.
Also - please can you ensure your VT figures for July are given to your VT supervisors or to Lucy ASAP. We will add a list of who the supervisor you need to report to on here shortly.
We have the baptism of Lois' husband Liam Stopher on Saturday at 6pm, it would be lovely to come along and support the family.
Our next RS Activity will be on Wednesday 20th August where we will be having our annual Fish and Chips in Felixstowe.
The cleaning team for this week is: Richard & Gail Dowling, Cristina and Raul Nunes, Roberto & Sabrina Correira and Ron Littlewood.
We have had a few offers of furniture, is these are of any use to you please contact the person direct:
* Derrick Dawdry has a neighbour with a sofa and 2 armchairs available
* Trisha Read has 2 single bed bases available
* Gloria Watson has a dresser available
Lesson:
This weeks lesson was given by Sister Annie Green and was taken from an amazing talk given at the April General Conference by Elder David A Bednar "Bear up their burdens with ease".
This talk is precious for each of us and well worth another listen - you can hear the talk by clicking HERE
You may remember the talk as a story was shared about a man who was desperate to buy a four wheel drive truck, finding all kinds of excuses to justify the purchase to his wife. Eventually they made the decision to indeed purchase the vehicle - to prove his point he decided to go into the mountains and chop and collect wood, only to discover the vehicle got stuck in all the snow. It could ONLY be moved once a load was added to the back allowing some traction and movement. Elder Bednar shared how we too need a load, a load that will allow spiritual traction enabling us to them move forward.
In groups today we discussed various questions raised in the talk such as Why is a load necessary? Are all loads spiritually equal? How do we come unto Christ?
How do we become yoked to Christ?
They are vital questions that we ALL need to know the answers too - make time this week to hear / read this talk again and find the answers YOU need. Listen to the spirit and let Him teach you.
A few of the special quotes you may wish to consider are as follows:
"Making and keeping sacred covenants yokes us to and with the Lord Jesus Christ. In essence, the Saviour is beckoning us to rely upon and pull together with Him, enough though our best efforts are not equal to and cannot be compared with His....We are not and never need be alone. We can press forward in our daily lives with heavenly help. Through the Saviour's atonement we can receive capacity and strength beyond our own."
"Do we also understand the Atonement is for faithful men and women who are obedient, worthy and conscientious and who are striving to become better and serve more faithfully? I wonder if we fail to fully acknowledge this strengthening aspect of the Atonement in our lives and mistakenly believe we must carry the load all alone - through sheer grit, willpower and discipline and with our obviously limited capacities."
"The Saviour has suffered not just for our sins and iniquities - but also for our physical pains and anguish, out weaknesses and shortcomings, our fears and frustrations, our disappointments and discouragement, our regrets and remorse, our despair and desperation, the injustices and inequities we experience, and the emotional distresses that beset us...there is no physical pain, no spiritual wound, no anguish of soul or heartache, no infirmity or weakness you or I ever confront in mortality that the Saviour did not experience first....He has perfect empathy and can extend to us His arm of mercy. He can reach out, touch, succor, heal and strengthen us to be more than we could ever be and help us to do that which we could never do relying upon our own power."
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