Extra Produce?

If you have extra produce from your garden that needs a home the Shelley Food bank is an excellent place to take it. Donations can be taken to the food bank on Tuesdays from 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. or left outside in the bins.

Super Saturday

Hopefully you were able to see the projects for Super Saturday.  If not check out the post from last week that has the pictures and prices. We do need to have your orders in of what you want to do and the money turned in this week so we will be able to purchase the supplies needed.  If you weren't able to sign up please call or text Heather Olsen (208) 681-7762 what you would like to do and then get her the money. Thanks!

New Church Website

The Church has launched a website that talks about religious freedom.  It talks about what religious freedom is and what to do when our beliefs be challenged.  This is an amazing website that can help us in a world that is growing increasingly more aggressive and antagonistic against our beliefs. Check it out!

https://lds.org/religious-freedom

Foodbank needs

The foodbank is in need of plastic grocery bags and egg cartons. You can take then to the food bank and drop them off in the totes that are behind the stairs.

Conference

      This past Saturday was the Women's Session of Conference. It was an amazing broadcast.  If you didn't get a chance to watch and listen to it please do so. If you did get to go listen to it again. All of the talks were amazing but President Uchtdorf talk on Faith was absolutely fantastic.  You can view and listen at lds.org.

      Then a reminder that this coming weekend in General Conference and the Priesthood Session. I encourage you to prepare for conference this week and listen this coming weekends with open hearts and minds so that the Spirit may convey to you the message that you need in your life at this time.

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday to these awesome ward members:

Joy Price - Sept 26th

Shirley Theisen - Sept 26th

Lonnie Peterson - Sept 28th

Don Lambert - Sept 29th

Rayanne Cook - Oct 1st

Angel Chraboneu - Oct 2nd

Blake Hogue - Oct 2nd

Kelley Hogue - Oct 2nd

Morgan Martin - Oct 2nd

Kim Strupp - Oct 2nd

Update on Super Sat. To be able to get the necklaces in time we need to have them ordered By Sept 25th this Sunday. contact Heather Olsen or Kim Kolsen or turn in order form on Sunday. The Necklaces are $5/necklace and 1 magnet. Extra magnets are $1 (photo) or $.50 (scrapbook paper). Photos need to be emailed 48 hours in advance. 

Super Saturday is coming up. It will be October 15th from 10 am - 2 pm. We will be eating at noon. Come have a fun time. you can sign up for the projects below by getting a form on Sunday or else contacting Kim Kolsen or Heather Olsen. We will have a quilt available to tie or you can bring some of your own projects to work on. Just come and visit with the sisters in the ward and have a marvelous time!

Here are a list of the projects and costs:
Mesh Wreath - $10
Magnetic Necklace - TBA Post later when we get an exact price with the info of how many interchangeable magnets you get.
Picture Board - $10
Canvas Faces - $ 8
Paper Tree - $5
Burlap Pumpkin - (Choice of white or orange, will need to bring your own plastic bags to fill it)- $4
State String Art - (Can choose state) $5
Joy Wreath - $10

Need Help

It is our ward's turn to feed the missionaries this next week. We still have son spots open on Sept 28th, 29th, and 30th. Please call Meg Barney if you could help out.

Eva Hult

Sister Eva Hult who used to live in our ward passed away this past Thursday. The funeral will be this coming Thursday, Sept 22nd at 11am at Nalders. There will be a viewing before from 9:30-10:45 am.

Women's Broadcast

Just a reminder that the Women's Conference Broadcast is this Saturday, Sept 24th at 6 p.m.  This is for all women and girls 8 yrs old and up. You can watch the Broadcast at the Stake Center or online at LDS.org

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday this week to these marvelous ward members:
Nick Cox- 19th
Russell Stewart- 19th
Kinzlee Fakrell - 20th
Michael Crandall- 21st
Maddy Murdoch- 22nd
Jane Smith- 23rd
Kiley Stewart- 23rd
Alexus Carnahan- 24th

Help Needed

The Ward Halloween Party will be October 29th. Tyler Olsen is once again putting together a haunted house. He is looking for artificial Christmas trees. If you have one he could borrow please contact him.  208-681-9762

Weekday Meeting

Our weekday meeting is this Thursday. Come and have lots of fun with the 5 little piggies!  We should have a display of the projects we are doing for Super Saturday which will be October 15th. 

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday to these wonderful ward members:

Katera Nakayama - 12th

Sienna Lott - 14th

Sierra Lott - 14th

Davnee Dye - 15th

Dorothy Pincock - 16th

Brenleigh Killpack - 16th

Amanda Reading - 16th

Dianna Ceja - 17th

Meg Barney - 18th

Drayden Challis - 18th

Savannah Messick - 18th

Beverly Ramos-18th

Scritpute Study Class

The Lesson for this week is: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder

Readings: Isaiah 29:13-14; Amos 8:11-12; 2 Nephi 27:1-5, 25-26; D&C 1:12-30; Joseph Smith -History 1: 5-10

Gordon B Hinkley, "At the Summit of the Ages," Ensign, Nov 1999, 72-74

New Callings

Here are the new callings that were sustained this week in sacrament meeting.

Dave Hanson - Nursery Leader

Darin Ball - Nursery Leader

Kade Nelson -Primary Teacher

Tyler Olsen - Primary Teacher

Nolan Bowen - Primary Teacher

Temple Closed

The Rexburg Temple is closed for cleaning etc.  from Sept 5th -Sept 19th.

Visiting Teaching Message

Visiting Teaching  . . . Again?!
There is wisdom in our monthly visiting teaching appointments. They aren't meant to bog down our busy lives. They are meant to develop friendships and relationships of trust. They are meant to teach us service not at out convenience, but within the guidelines the Lord has set forth. The women we have been called to visit teach need to know that they are out friends, that they can call us anytime, that they can ask for favors, that we will be happy to help, and that we love them.

(Adapted from an article in Meridian Magazine by Heather Moore)

New Ward Members

We want to welcome some new members to the ward.

Austin and Natasha Mohler 

Seth and Emily Young and their family.

Also congratulations to Seth and Emily on the birth of their daughter Milly Kaye.

Lesson Schedule

Here is the lesson schedule for Sept.

Sept 4th—Presidency Message

Sept 11—CH 16 –Marriage –an

               Eternal Partnership

Sept 18th –CH17— Preserve and

                Protect the Family

Sept 25th—Teaching for Our Times

     “Tomorrow the Lord Will Do Wonders Among You"

               by Elder Jeffery R. Holland

Presidnecy Message

Dear Sisters,

           School has begun! What an interesting time of year. For some it is filled with relief as we send the kids back to school and reclaim our house, personal time and a familiar routine. For others it is a time of anxiety has we send our little ones out for the first time to start new experiences.  For all of us it is a time of hope. Hope that we have prepared our children to face the oncoming trails of a new school year. Hope that our children know they are children of their Heavenly Father and act as such while away from home. Hope that the new school year will bring growth, not just academically, but spiritually as our children learn more of who they are and who they want to become. I was recently reading a conference address that helped relieve some of the anxiety related to sending kids back to school. A Child’s Guiding Gift By Mary R. Durham, Recently Released Second Counselor in the Primary General Presidency, stated

How do we as parents increase the spiritual capacity of our little ones? How do we teach them to kick off worldly influences and trust the Spirit when we are not with them and they are alone in the deep waters of their lives?

Feeling and recognizing the Spirit will bring spiritual capacity into our children’s lives, and the voice they come to know will become clearer and clearer to them. It will be as Elder Richard G. Scott said: “As you gain experience and success in being guided by the Spirit, your confidence in the impressions you feel can become more certain than your dependence on what you see or hear.”¹¹

We need not fear as we see our children enter the waters of life, for we have helped them rid themselves of worldly weight. We have taught them to live for the guiding gift of the Spirit. This gift will continue to lighten the weight they carry and lead them back to their heavenly home if they live for it and follow its promptings.

Our children are not alone out in the world. They have been taught to listen to the Holy Ghost and recognize his promptings. In times of temptation and trials they will remember what their parents have taught them. It might not be right away, they might decide to ignore our advice and counsel in attempts to find their own way. But if the seed has been placed, they will eventually listen to that still small voice. Trust them, love them, and believe in them. The Lord will lead them safely home.

                                                                                       Love, Sister Heather Olsen.

Viewing

Sister Colleen Winward passed away this last Thursday. Her viewing will be today, Sept 5th from 6:00-7:30 p.m. at Nalder's Funeral Home here in Shelley. There will be no funeral as she will be interred in Utah on Tuesday.   

Overcoming the Natural Man

The lesson for Overcoming the Natural Man was, Give your weaknesses to God. Here is the challenge for this month.
        Spend this month, praying regularly to your Father in Heaven that you may give your sins to Him. Be specific in your weaknesses that you are giving to Him. As you write in your journal during the coming month, or ponder during the Sacrament, identify areas where you failed to give it all up to the Lord and make a plan on how you will let the sin/habit go.

We have also had requests for the website that has the lessons on it.  So here it is.

http://www.bitly.com/ShelleyHabits2016

Stake Scritpture Class

The Stake Scripture Class is starting next Friday, Sept. 16th at 10:00 at our ward building. It is held every Friday after that at the same time and place. Come learn more about the scriptures.

Happpy Birthday!

Happy Birthday this week to these marvelous ward members:

Nolan Bowen - 6th

Jordan Cook - 6th

Tryston Jimenez - 9th

Terry Fitzgerald - 10th

Weekday Meeting

Here is the info for September Weekday meeting. We have a really fun night planned, and Kim Kolsen made this really cute invite. Hope to see you all there to find out what all the piggy's are about.