Beneath the Wraps

I will use this font for the agenda of the activity, things taught and learned I will use this font for my own thoughts and (unfortunately) wandering mind and quotes that don't have pictures I so wish I had the memory to make sense of my notes so that I can remember all the details of what was said.  Of course I don't have the all the details.  I may have most of the highlights however.  It was a great conference . . . .             On Saturday there was a Relief Society activity for the stake.  I'd forgotten that the dress was casual and wore my Church clothes.  Before we entered the chapel, we were each given a schedule and a colored bracelet to wear.       I enjoyed how the RS president started out the meeting by telling us not to compare our "behind the scenes" moment to somebody else's "highlighted" reel.  I like that quote.  I don't know w...

I vaguely remember reading a story about a young boy who had the honor of traveling with his father to see the Christ child – or perhaps it was that he wanted to go, but was too young to make the journey.   I don’t remember when or where I read it.   I hadn’t thought about it until yesterday when Kristen gave this years first lesson in Relief Society.   Such a beautiful lesson.   I don’t know why I had never connected the dots before. Kristin started out her letter with a video portraying the wise men who had traveled for over two years before they reached the Christ child – who was a child and not an infant resting in a manger.   I remembered being told that “they found him in a house” but had never really considered the long journey they had made.   I had forgotten how I had read about the anticipation and excitement and the long wait. We read from the Bible Dictionary and Matthew 2.   We looked up the words Magi and Three Ki...

I suppose I should have waited for Pamela to call back before I created that last post.   She had told me that she’d be going out of town.   I didn’t think of that until after I left the message.   I had tried to contact Scarlet when I thought that Pamela was out of town.   (Perhaps it’s Scarlet who is out of town?) Pamela returned my call and will be helping me on Super Saturday rather than at the Appreciation Dinner.   I still had not gotten a hold of Scarlett, but sent another email to ignore my first.   But for some reason I had entered the wrong phone number and so I turned the computer on in order to look up the correct number. Before the computer warmed up, my cell phone rang.   It was Sharon – another sister in my ward – offering to teach a class on making popcorn balls.   Seriously!   Super Saturday is looking like it might be super after all.   Thank you to my readers who took the time to pray for me. ...

If anything can go wrong, it will – Murphy’s Law Okay, this post may be a bit long and a bit drawn out especially if I put it in verse style.   You don’t have to read it. Just after we moved to West Valley and   attended church, I was called to be on the committee for  the activities for  the Relief Society.   Kristen was the activities’ director  (or enrichment hostess or homemaking guide or whatever they called it then) I was grateful to be and enjoyed my calling on the committee but not as the chief. It couldn’t have been more than five months (or so it felt) before Kristen was called to be the primary president and Loretta was handed the reigns of  RS activity director.   She did not seem to want a committee.   I thought she was bananas. When Loretta moved out of the ward, Hannah was asked to do the calling.     Enthusiastic Hannah who always p...

          I’m not good at taking notes at conferences or Spiritual meetings.   I get so caught up in trying to get the exact quote or comment or whatever that I end up missing on so much more. Last night there was a Relief Society stake activity called “Women of Righteousness” featuring artist Megan Rieker.   I didn’t think the event well advertised   - at least in our ward.   I honestly didn’t know what to expect. Turned out to be a truly eventful night.   And I learned things – not just about the artist paintings but discoveries within the past as well as my own self. I’d taken an art appreciation class several years ago in order to appreciate fine art more than I do.   It backfired.   I often rolled my eyes when learning about contrast and balance and was more unappreciative about the entire fine art world long before the class was over. I started looking at paintings and wore less-than-flatteri...

           When I was younger I remember having only two meetings on Sunday then.   There were three for priesthood holders – but for the first fifteen plus years of my life I recall there being only two meetings.             I don’t recall the specific times or the length of time that took place between the two meetings.  I remember Sunday School being first, coming home to have dinner and returning to the church at a later time for Sacrament meeting.             The other meetings were spread out during the week.  (e.g. Relief Society was on Tuesday nights, Mutual on Wednesday nights and Primary was on Thursdays after school.) but as the growth of the membership had taken place outside of Utah , the meetings were changed so that all meetings would take place on Sunday.        ...