Stake Relief Society Enrichment
Apr 26th, 2008 by Bethany
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This morning I went to our Stake Relief Society Home Family and Personal Enrichment meeting. What a mouthful! But I had a great time. I walked over there to get a big chunk of my exercise for the day in (in heels, too!). Thank you to everyone who participated in setting everything up to make it such a worthwhile time for us attendees!
The meeting started off in the chapel with three talks from women who spend five minutes speaking on the topic “How I feel the love of the Lord in my life.” Then we split into mini-classes. We could choose two of six classes: Women’s Health, Building Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, Strengthening Marriage, Kitchen Tips, Personal Revelation, and a service project making turbans for those fighting cancer. I chose to go to the Women’s Health and Faith classes–all of them looked interesting, so I decided by picking the two taught by women who serve in Primary with me. Both classes were informative and faith-promoting. The health class was taught by an RN and we discussed everything from the Word of Wisdom to osteoporosis to menopause to how much sleep we should get. She was going to talk about “serving in callings with chronic health problems,” but I guess we didn’t have enough time. In the Faith class we talked a lot about prayer and Elder Bednar’s recent General Conference talk on faith.
After the mini-classes, we met up in the chapel again to hear talks from two sisters (wives of the stake presidency) on Sustaining the Priesthood. Then we got to go into the cultural hall for a very yummy lunch prepared by a man in our stake who is a professional chef. He and some other men in the stake served us chicken (caesar?) wraps, potato salad, and fruit salad (actually mostly marshmallows). Women in the stake had brought desserts to share and we had a HUGE spread of a variety of desserts. I skipped the fruit salad so I would have enough in my carb budget for a bit or two of cheesecake and brownie. It was heavenly after nearly a month of very limited sweets to have good bite of dense chocolate and another of cheesecake….mmmm…graham cracker crust…
