Primary News!

Congratulations Primary Children. We’ve finally met our scripture reading goal! We’ve collectively read enough days to fill up our temple picture so, now it’s time to get ready for our quarterly activity at the temple. On April 18th at 10 am we will meet in front of the Visitor’s Center. If any parents would like to join us, we’d love to have you. We also welcome any visitors that the Primary children would like to bring to the temple grounds. Our activity should end by 11:30 am and the children will be waiting by the Visitor’s Center entrance.

The March issue of the Friend has a good idea for encouraging appropriate Sunday activities. These “Sunday Stations” offer some fun and enriching activities for the whole family. They can be adapted to your family’s preferences, and would provide an easy way to practice the Articles of Faith or to work on the Faith in God program.

We encourage each family to play the primary CD often. Play it at home, in the car, or during family night and sing along! We love to hear our Primary children sing, especially during the sacrament program, but it does take a lot of practice. Also, all of the Articles of Faith are on the CD as well. We found that the songs really help many of the children memorize them. Even our sweet little sunbeams have passed off a number of them. We are working on articles 7 and 8 in April. Come and pass off any that you have memorized with either your primary teacher (during class) or with any member of the primary presidency (after closing exercises). We will give you a star sticker to put on the chart to mark each one.

Activity Days for girls will be held on April 8th. They will have a fashion focus. There will be just the one activity in April.

Ward Activity!

April in the Park!
Come enjoy spring with your family and friends at the retention basin at the intersection of Diamond and Glenview Roads.
There will be a taco bar, s’mores,
cartoons and good times!
At 6 pm, Friday April 10th.
Be there, it’s in the air!

Primary News!

Our 8 is Great activity went really well. We are so excited for our CTR 8s who get to be baptized and begin the Faith in God program this year. Thank you to everyone who participated in the program that evening.
We have only one line left to complete our temple picture. Great job reading scriptures as families! Keep it up. Our temple trip is just around the corner.
Article of Faith #6 is the focus this month, so remember to practice numbers 1 through 5 at home and pass them off on Sunday after Primary. The songs to all of the Articles of Faith are on the Primary CD we gave out at Christmas time.

Relief Society Birthdays!

March:
1st: Jenn Payne
2nd: Gretta Hanson
3rd: Christie Hatch
9th: Sharla Taylor
10th: Kristina Merkley
13th: Joyce Rudd
25th: Carren Mattix

We hope you all have a lovely day!

Young Women!

We are excited and happy to welcome our NEW Young Women's President, Julie Spilsbury!
The New Young Women Presidency is Julie Spilsbury (Pres), Jenna Brown (1st Coun.), Sharla Taylor (2nd Coun.)& Karen Nicoll (Secretary).

A HUGE "Thank You" to Jennifer Bergeson who served as Young Women's President and Linda Boss as 1st Counselor! We appreciate all they did for the Young Women.... they are loved & missed!

Welcome to our newest "Beehive"- Emily Adams! We are very excited to have her in Young Womens with us!

"New Beginnings" we "Spot-lighted" our 3 newest Young Women, Meagan Howell, Autumn Forseth and Jasmin Browder... it was so much fun getting to know them better!
We appreciate EVERYONE for coming to "New Beginnings" and we hope that it helped get all the GIRLS & PARENTS motivated to keep working on your Personal Progress goals!
Do you know where your Personal Progress Book is??? We sure hope you do!!!

February was Stake Sports Month! We appreciate all the girls who came and participated!

The Beehives and Mia Maids played softball and the Laurels & Priests played co-ed Volleyball.




GIRLS CAMP is quickly approaching! We appreciate Joleen Andrew for accepting the call to be our Ward Camp Director this year! Camp is May 27-30, (a day earlier for YCL's and Jr Staff) and the cost is $55.00. We hope the girls will try to earn their own money! Money is due Mar. 18th. Contact Joleen Andrew if you have questions, 655-8072.

Young Women General Broadcast on Sat., Mar. 28th, 4:30pm at the Stake Center. ALL Young Women and their mothers are invited. Sunday Dress. We will be having a dinner afterwards (for the girls & moms) in the Relief Society Room at our ward building. This will count as our Mutual Activity for that week, so please remember that there is NO MUTUAL for the Young Women on Weds., March 25th!

We are planning to start sending out e-mail reminders to the parents of our Young Women to help keep you well informed with all that is happening in Young Womens.

A note to our Laurel girls- March 11th we will be learning how to make Cinnamon Rolls and on March18th we will learn about self defense with the Priests.