this weeks announcements...

* Here is the link to the video Allison Day shared at our Relief Society Activity for any of you interested- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RplBQGogYEk

*These families are in charge of cleaning the building this Saturday the 7th at 6:15 p.m. Reese, Barney, Ostler, *Speirs, Hatch, Howell, K. Smith, M. Barlow, Merrell, Ouimette.

*Fathers and Sons- May 13th and 14th at Mutual Dell.

*If any of you know of any summer job availablity for the youth in our ward, please respond back to this email and we will pass the information along. Thanks!

*TREK - ALL YOUTH and ADULTS going on trek need to register and fill out a medical form ASAP-- ( must be done prior to May 10th). THey can go onto the website for info. Visit the stake trek blogHighlandsouthstaketrek.blogspot.com to find out more information about trek.

*The ward is putting together a book of advice for the graduating seniors in our ward. That includes: Hannah Abbott, Nicole Shumway, and Katelyn Smith. If you have advice to share please make it 500 words or less and send it to Shad Vick at shad@lunawebs.com.

*We know that not all of you sisters have had the opportunity to share your testimonies in the traveling scriptures we will be presenting to the graduating Laurels in the next few weeks, and we're running out of time!. If you haven't yet had this chance, please email carrieclinton@gmail.com with your favorite Book of Mormon scripture and a brief testimony to be included with your scripture. Carrie will print it out, mark your favorite scripture, and include your testimony inside the Book of Mormon to give to one of the Laurels at the beginning of May. The Young Women who will be receiving one of these books are: Hannah Abbott, Nicole Shumway, and Katelyn Smith. Thank you for your willingness to take a few minutes of your day to do this. It will be a great opportunity to share with these young women a little about yourself, and we hope it will be a treasured gift for them.

*We are in need of donations to purchase the batting for the quilts we are trying to put together for our ward. If you are willing to donate, please let Alice Childs know. Also, if you would be willing to help sew a quilt or take one home to tie it please contact Mary Bowman- 369-7331 marybowman_dublan@yahoo.com. Thanks!

* Back to the Basics Challenge- The world would like us to believe that the requirements for self-worth are beauty, youth, wealth, and success. But as Patricia Holland, former counselor in the Young Women general presidency, counseled women college students “[we are] becoming so concerned about having perfect figures, or straight A’s, or professional status, or even absolute motherly success that we are being torn from our true selves. We often worry so much about pleasing and performing for others that we lose our own uniqueness, that full and relaxed acceptance of ourselves as a person of worth and individuality.” (“The Soul’s Center,” given at a BYU devotional 13 January 1987.)

We all need to learn to recognize our worth to the Lord. As the Apostle Paul wrote, “We are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ.” (Rom. 8:16–17.) That is the foundation upon which we should base our individual “worth”—not on what the world might think of us. (from 1989 V.T. message "The Worth of Souls Is Great")

This month, we challenge you to think about your potential as a Daughter of God and look for the qualities that He sees in you. Write your thoughts in your journal.

*Lesson for Sunday- Presidency Message- we will all be combined in the Relief Society Room!

Have a great week!

Love,

The Relief Society Presidency