Funeral Information

Former ward member Karen Gneiting passed away Christmas Eve due to an accidental fall.  Her funeral will be this Saturday at the Grant LDS Chapel in Grant at 12:00 p.m.  Her viewing will be prior to that from 10:30 - 11:45 p.m.  Her obituary can be found at  the Horsley Funeral Home website. 
http://www.horsleyfuneralhome.com/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm?o_id=4049480

New Callings in the Ward

Relief Society Presidency
President - Joyce Killpack
1st Councilor - Shannon Anderson
2nd Councilor - Sharon Jones
Secretary is still Cathie Morris

Primary Chorister - Rayanne Cook

Activity Day Leader - Krishaun Player

Family History Consultant - Mindy Lewis

Ward Welfare Specialists - Brian and Rayanne Cook

Santa Sacks

Santa will be making his visits this week on this coming Thursday, Dec 22nd. He will begin making his visits at 6 p.m.

Reminders

Next week we will just be having Sacrament Meeting. It will be at the normal time at 11 a.m.

Also fast Sunday will be January 8th not the 1st.

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday this week to these fabulous ward members:

20th - Keldon Ball

20th - Mavis Moore

20th - Sam Nelson

25th - Christa Ball

25th - Bailey Stewart

Cupboard Needs a New Home

Barbra Raymond has a storage cupboard that she wants to find a new home for. It has an upper and lower cupboard to it.  If you are interested please call her 208-357-0844.

Weekday Meeting

Our December Weekday Meeting is this Thursday at 6:30. We will be having a progressive dinner at the church as we learn about the women in Christ's life. Please bring an ornament for our ornament exchange. Dress is nice casual and there will be a nursery. Come have a wonderful night with the sisters of our ward!

Service Opportunity

This is a reminder that tomorrow from 2:30-4:30 p.m. at the church building, there will be a Christmas Service Open House benefitting Primary Children's Hospital. Come for as long as you want or just for a short while. This is for children as well as adults. Check out the post from last week for ideas of things you can donate as well. If you have questions contact Shannon Anderson (313-9948), Jasmine Lott (569-7019), or Tess Zollinger (403-3532).

Light the World

The service topics this week for Light the World are:

12th - Jesus Taught Others and So Can You

13th - Jesus Showed Humility and So Can You

14th - Jesus Taught Us To Clothe the Naked and So

          Can You

15th - Jesus Worshipped Through Song and So Can You

16th - Jesus Showed Compassion And So Can You

17th - Jesus Cared for His Mother and So Can You

18th - Jesus Honored the Sabbath and So Can You

Opportunity for Families

The Museum of Idaho begins their "Olde Fashioned Christmas and Winter Festival" display this week. On December 15th they kick off with a tree lighting ceremony then they will run this display until January 2nd. this is a fun thing to go see and it is free.

Special Fast

Our ward will be having a special fast next Sunday for the Dooley Family specifically Pam. Please keep them in your prayers.

Thank You!

Sister Julie Huntsman wanted to pass on her thanks for all that donated for the Refugees in Boise. She planned on taking a car over and instead filled a u-haul trailer full of donated items. That is amazing for 5 days! This will help many elementary schools. Thanks you for your kindness and generosity!

An update that Julie got from her sister.
With the items donated, part of them from here,they are able to help 9 elementary schools, 3 refugee organizations, and two homeless shelters. Absolutely amazing!!!

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday this week to these marvelous ward members!

Keegan Romrell - 11th

Tyler Murdoch - 12th

Mistri Russell - 15th

Brynlee Barney - 16th

Justin Dean - 16th

Nathaniel Dean - 16th

Thank You

We had a few calls on people who have a bed for Leatha. Thanks everyone our ward family is amazing!

Looking for a Bed

Leatha Neilson is looking for a double sized bed for her son to use when he comes to visit. If anyone has one that they are no longer needing please let Rayanne Cook know.
357-3942

Presidency Message

Merry Christmas Sisters!

I have always loved this time of year. I love the music, the lights, the gift giving, the food, and the time with family. I love the Christmas traditions, decorations, movies and stories. Most of all I love the Spirit of Christmas and the feeling you get when focusing on the true meaning of Christmas – Jesus Christ and the love he has for all of His children.

I hear a lot of people complain that Christmas has become to “commercialize” and the true meaning has been lost. Many years ago my Grandma gave me a 25 days of Christmas book filled with stories and songs to read each day of Dec. until Christmas. One story in particular always helps me remember that it doesn’t matter how commercialized the world has made Christmas if we always remember its true purpose. The following is that story, one most of you will be familiar with.  

    A Boy Learns a Lesson by Thomas S. Monson

In about my tenth year, as Christmas approached, I longed for an electric train.  The times were those of economic depression, yet Mother and Dad purchased for me a lovely electric train.

Christmas morning bright and early, I thrilled when I noticed my train.  The next few hours were devoted to operating the transformer and watching the engine pull its cars forward—then backward around the track.

Mother said that she had purchased a wind-up train for Widow Hansen’s boy, Mark, who lived down the lane at Gale Street.  As I looked at his train, I noted a tanker car which I much admired.  I put up such a fuss that my mother succumbed to my pleadings and gave me the tanker car.  I put it with my train set and felt pleased.

Mother and I took the remaining cars and the engine down to Mark Hansen.  The young boy was a year or two older than I.  He had never anticipated such a gift.  He was thrilled beyond words.  He wound the key in his engine, it not being electric nor expensive like mine, and was overjoyed as the engine and three cars, plus a caboose, went around the track.

I felt a horrible sense of guilt as I returned home.  The tanker car no longer appealed to me.  Suddenly, I took the tanker car in my hand, plus an additional car of my own, and ran all the way down to Gale Street and proudly announced to Mark, “We forgot to bring two cars which belong to your train.”

I don’t know when a deed had made me feel any better than that experience as a ten-year old boy.

            The best way to feel the Spirit of Christmas and enjoy the season is to give! And what better way to give then to give of yourself with service. This Christmas we have all been encouraged to “Light the World” by serving others every day. If you haven’t started this challenge yet, do so today it is never to late. Even if you only are able to do it one or two days out of the week, it will change your Christmas season into a much more meaningful one. There is no better way to celebrate Christmas then this. So get out there and give of yourselves. I know that when you do the true meaning of Christmas will always be with you.

                                      

                                                                                                                  Love,

                                                                                                                       Sister Heather Olsen.

Another Way to Serve

Refugee Donations Needed

Julie Huntsman is collecting whatever she can gather (new or used) for elementary aged refugee children living in Boise with a focus on coats, hats, gloves and socks. The need is NOW! These sweet children have literally nothing. Most come to school with no socks because they have none. Time is short. She is trying to get as much as she can by Wednesday, December 7th.

Please drop off donations at Julie Huntsman's: 720 E 1500 N Shelley, Idaho  Questions call her: (208 716-7147).

Light the World

So here are the things for each day for Light the World this Week.

Dec 5th - Jesus Healed the Sick and So Can You.

Dec 6th - Jesus Read the Scriptures and So Can You

Dec 7th -Jesus Fed the Hungary and So Can You

Dec 8th - Jesus Prayed for Others and So Can You

Dec 9th - Jesus Visited the Lonely and So Can You

Dec 10th - Jesus Helped People to Walk and So Can You

Dec 11th - Jesus Ministered to Children and So Can You

Youth Service Project

For mutual this week the youth are doing a service to help parents of Primary aged kids out. So, this Tuesday, Dec 6th from 6-8 p.m. bring your primary aged kids (nursery - 11 yrs old) to the church. Then you can go shopping, wrap presents, or just take a break while your kids have a fun time. They do ask that you please make sure they are fed before they come.   

Ward Christmas Party

Come enjoy a night in Bethlehem. The 1^st Ward Christmas Party will be Saturday December 10^th at 6pm. Please bring a blanket for your family, because there is only room enough in the Inn for the “wisest” of ward members. If at all possible dress you and your family in “Bethlehem attire” or neutral colored clothing. We hope to see you there!

Service Oppoutunity

The Andersen Family (Ashlyn, Jorgen, Marisa, and Kyra),

the Lott Family (Lily, Jet, Sierra, and Sienna), and

the Zollinger family (Lucy, Tegan, Ty, Leah, and Lydia)

Invite you to a

Christmas Service Open House

Benefiting Primary Children’s Hospital

Monday, December 12^th from 2:30-4:30 pm

(You may come and go as you please)

At the LDS church at 184 N Park Ave in Shelley

Please come help us assemble items to donate.  If you choose

(but it is not necessary), you may also look at the attached list and find a small item that you would be willing to purchase and bring with you to donate.  We will deliver the items to the hospital. 

Please bring good scissors for any older children to use to cut fleece.  If you would like to bring something to donate that will be used in a blanket, stuffed toy, or craft kit that we will be assembling that day, please look at the attached list under “open house items.”  Then contact one of us so we can make sure to have enough supplies for complete kits. If any adult is willing to help sew simple cloth dolls before the open house, contact Shannon Andersen at 313-9948. 

If you have any questions, contact Shannon

Andersen at 313-9948, Jasmine Lott at 569-7019,

or Tess Zollinger at 403-3532.

Primary Children’s Hospital Donations Wish List

DONATION GUIDELINES

·         We do not accept items made with latex due to allergies or used items due to infection risk.

·         Please do not donate violent or gory toys and games such as play swords and/or play guns. 

·         For infection control purposes, we cannot accept used stuffed animals of any kind. 

·         Please deliver all items unwrapped.

·         Items must be new and in their original packaging.

·         We are especially in need of the items in bold.

GAMES

·         Any kind of card game (face cards, Uno, Skip-bo, Phase 10, etc.)

·         Board games

DVDs – rated G, PG, or PG-13

BOOKS

·         Board books

·         Vinyl books

·         Books in Spanish

·         Popular children’s books

·         Teen magazines and books

·         Toddler books

TOYS - All kinds, but NO VIOLENT OR GORY TOYS, INCLUDING PLAY SWORDS OR PLAY GUNS.  A few ideas are:

·         Matchbox cars

·         Baby rattles (no cloth)

·         Princess items

·         Stickers

·         Baby teethers

·         Play food

·         Barbie dolls and clothes

·         Nerf footballs, basketballs, and basketball hoops

·         Little People figures

·         Squeeze balls

·         Polly pockets

·         Action heroes

·         Lego kits

·         Plastic animals/ dinosaurs – medium sized

·         O balls

·         Disney play set (plastic)

·         Pixar Cars themed toys

·         Character toys (Dora, Doc McStuffins, etc)

OTHER ITEMS

·         Blank CDs/DVDs for burning

·         Chapstick

·         Dairy Queen Blizzard kits

·         Earbuds

·         Easy-Bake Oven kits

·         Egg shakers with handles

·         Eye shadow

·         Gift cards (iTunes, Lakeshore, Amazon, fast food restaurants, other popular cards for teens)

·         Guitar picks

·         Lip gloss

·         Manicure sets

·         Nail polish 

ART AND CRAFT SUPPLIES - Do NOT include things with latex, which can be found in craft foam, balloons, rubber gloves, and bracelet kits.  We cannot accept these items. 

·         Beading kits and beads for teens

·         Coloring books (especially teen and adult ones)

·         Crayola washable markers

·         Dot paints

·         Elmer’s glue/glue sticks

·         Fun print duct tape

·         Fuzzy posters

·         Paint brushes

·         Play Doh

·         Stickers

·         Window clings

·         Window markers

CLOTHING

·         Baby clothes (0-18 mo)

·         Pajama bottoms

·         Shorts (all sizes)

·         Snap front cotton rompers (0-12 mo), NO ZIPPERS

·         Snap front sleepers with long sleeves and feet (0-18 mo, especially boys) NO ZIPPERS

·         Sweats (all sizes)

·         Trendy caps for boys

·         T-shirts, especially white (all sizes kids & adults)

·         Underwear (size 2T to young adult)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

OPEN HOUSE ITEMS - We will be making fleece blankets, making stuffed dolls (for doctors to use to explain procedures), and assembling craft kits at our Christmas Open House.  These are kits that the patients can make themselves while at the hospital.  Here is a list of supplies that we will need for those kits.  If you want to donate one of these items, please let us know so that we can make sure to have the supplies for complete kits.

·         Cardboard tubes

·         Chenille stems/pipe cleaners

·         Coloring pages that have been printed off

·         Crayons

·         Empty cereal boxes

·         Felt, all colors

·         Fleece (scraps for crafts, 2 yds for blankets)

·         Googly eyes

·         Pom poms

·         Stuffing for cloth dolls

·         Wooden craft sticks, assorted sizes

·         Wooden clothespins

·         Ziplock bags, quart size

COMPLETE LIST

For a complete, detailed list of what is currently wanted, visit https://intermountainhealthcare.org/locations/primary-childrens-hospital/giving-volunteering/service-projects-donations/donation-wish-list/ or google Primary Children’s Hospital donations.

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday this week to these marvelous ward members!

Pam Dooley - Dec 5th

Sheradon Kohler - 6th

Leatha Neilson - 6th

Van Wells - 9th

Rehle Higham - 10th

Payton Peterson - 10th

Keegan Romrell - 11th

Light the World

The Church's Christmas initiative is "Light the World." We have been encouraged to serve others everyday from December 1st to December 25th in different ways.
Go to lds.org and click on "Light the World" on the main page or copy and paste this link to go to Mormon.org.

https://www.mormon.org/?cid=HP_FR_25-11-2016_dMIS_fmorg_xLIDyL1-A_

Let's follow Christ's example and serve others this holiday season and everyday.

This week the ways to serve and some examples are:

Dec 1st - Jesus Lifted Other's Burdens and So Can You.

                This is the event kick off with a worldwide day of

                  service.

Dec 2nd - Jesus Honored His Parents and So Can You

                  *Call (not Text) your parents

                  * Write a handwritten note to your parents or in-

                     laws.

                   * Learn about and ancestor and share their story.

Dec  3rd - Jesus Helped Others to See and So Can You

                   *Find and eyeglasses collection box and donate

                     an old pair.

                    * Point out a virtue in someone they don't see in

                       themselves.

                   *Promote a vision charity on social media

Dec 4th - Jesus Worshipped His Father and So Can You.

                  *Attend church services

                   *Make a goal to offer a kneeling prayer to

                    Heavenly Father everyday in December.

                  

Weekday Meeting

Our  Christmas Weekday Meeting, Women in the Life of Christ, is coming up in a couple of weeks on December 15th at 6:30 p.m. We will be having a Progressive dinner at the church throughout the building and listen to speakers talk about the women in Christ's life. We will also be having an ornament exchange, so bring and ornament to exchange. There will be a nursery provided.

Christmas Devotional

The First Presidency Devotional is this coming Sunday, Dec 4th at 6 p.m.  What a fabulous way to start this Christmas season!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday this week to these fabulous ward members:

Sawyer Barnard - 27th

Race Russell - 27th

Lynn Smith - 27th

Jed Lewis - 28th

Kytri Russell - 2nd

Holly Dooley - 3rd

Heads Up

I was asked to remind everyone that the City will pick up garbage on Wednesday this week since Thanksgiving is Thursday.

Calendar of Events

Nov 30th - Daddy Daughter Date 6:30 p.m.
Dec 2nd -Bell Ringing Service Project
Dec 7th - Pack Meeting
Dec 9th - LDS Regional Singles Christmas Concert
                7:00 p.m. at the North IF Stake Center
Dec 10th - Ward Christmas Party 6:00 p.m.
Dec 15th -Weekday Meeting (Progressive Dinner) 6:30 p.m.

Daddy Daughter Date

The activity day girls are having their Daddy Daughter Date Night on Wednesday, Nov 7th at 6:30 p.m. at the church in the primary room.  Girls ages 8-11 are invited to attend with their dads. They need to bring a hammer for the two of them to share as they will be making a Christmas decoration. Any other questions please contact Shannon Anderson or Lisa Dye.

Service Opportunity

We have an opportunity to help serve in the community. We need bell ringers for the Salvation Army. Our ward has been asked to provide bell ringers On Friday, December 2nd.  Most of the spots have been filled but we still have two time slots open: 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m., and 7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.  This is an excellent opportunity for families to serve. If you want to fill either of those time slots please contact Derrick Dye. Thanks!