January Newsletter

Presidency Message by Jan Welling
For the message this month I would like to share thoughts given by Elder Jeffrey R Holland given in a BYU Devotional talk in 2009. He speaks so well and his message is applicable to all of us. We wish all of our sisters a wonderful, happy, and blessed new year.

“The start of a new year is the traditional time to take stock of our lives and see where we are going, measured against the backdrop of where we have been. I don’t want to talk to you about New Year’s resolutions, because you only made five of them and you have already broken four. (I give that remaining one just another week.) But I do want to talk to you about the past and the future, not so much in terms of New Year’s commitments per se, but more with an eye toward any time of transition and change in your lives—and those moments come virtually every day of our lives.

So, as a new year starts and we try to benefit from a proper view of what has gone before, I plead with you not to dwell on days now gone, nor to yearn vainly for yesterdays, however good those yesterdays may have been. The past is to be learned from but not lived in. We look back to claim the embers from glowing experiences but not the ashes. And when we have learned what we need to learn and have brought with us the best that we have experienced, then we look ahead, we remember that faith is always pointed toward the future. Faith always has to do with blessings and truths and events that will yet be efficacious in our lives.

I pray you will a wonderful new year, and a wonderful life all filled with faith and hope and charity. Keep your eyes on your dreams, however distant and far away. Live to see the miracles of repentance and forgiveness, of trust and divine love that will transform your life today, tomorrow, and forever. That is a New Year’s resolution I ask you to keep, and I leave a blessing on you—every one of you—to be able to do so and to be happy, in the name of Him who makes it all possible, even the Lord Jesus Christ, amen.”

Love,
Marty, Lisa, Jan, Debbie, Jenny

Birthdays
5 Courtney Forbes
6 Ranya Kelly
9 Janet Bunn
9 Linda Spano
10 Nikita Bledsoe
14 Erica Carlson
23 Larkin Harman
23 Debbie Orvin
30 Suzanne Erekson
31 Susi Maximoff

Lesson Schedule – (Ezra Taft Benson)
Jan 4 Lesson by Marty Rozeski
Jan 11 #1 “The Great Commandment-Love the Lord”
Jan 18 #2 “Pray Always” taught by Kay Bashford
Jan 25 Ward Conference

Upcoming Events
Jan 19 – Feb 23 Temple Closed
Jan 25 Ward Conference

Other Opportunities
Jan 13 Lunch Bunch 11am at Wendy’s at 58th & Independence
Jan 14 Book Club 7pm at Pat Jentzsch “The Sugar Queen” by Sara Addison Allen
Thursdays 9:30 am playgroup
Saturdays 8 am pickup basketball
Mon & Wed 9 am Aerobics