YW Broadcast and Dinner @ Stake Center

This Saturday, March 30 is the General Young Women Broadcast from SLC.  The Brandon stake is having a dinner for the Young Women and their mother's prior to the broadcast.  The dinner begins at 6:00 pm and the broadcast begins at 8:00 pm.  We encourage you to attend with your daughter.

You can read more about it here.  https://www.lds.org/church/events/general-young-women-meeting-will-be-march-30?lang=eng

RS Lesson - Easter Sunday

This Sunday is Easter Sunday and is also the 5th Sunday of the month.  The bishopric will be speaking to us in a combined Relief Society and Priesthood meeting.

Ward Walk/Run Easter Egg Hunt

Saturday morning (March 30) at 8:00 am we are having a walk-run and at 8:30 we will be having an Easter Egg hunt at Lettuce Lake Park.  

Breakfast will be provided.  Please bring anyone interested.  Hope to see everyone there.  If you have more questions, please contact Eric Carlson, he is in charge of this event.

RS Lesson - March 17

Sunday is St. Patrick's day so it will be fun to see all of the 'wearing of the green'.

Our lesson for Sunday will be from the President Lorenzo Snow book.  Lesson 6- Becoming Perfect Before the Lord: "A Little Better Day by Day" 

Please take a moment to read the lesson and ponder on the questions at the end of the chapter so you can be better prepared to participate in class.

Charity giving where 100% goes to cause

There are many charities that do good work and that are prudent with your donations, however, very few use 100% of your donation for giving aid to others.  For many organizations, there are overhead and personnel costs so what ends up as charity work for your cause is usually less than 100%.  All US charities must publish how much of your donation actually goes to the cause and how much is used for other things.

LDS Philanthropies uses 100% of your donation for the cause that you designate. This is a very rare thing indeed.  All of your donations are also tax deductible.  You can also make recurring donations, in memoriam donations, one time donations, and many other plans and charities are available and waiting for your gift.

You can find out more here:  http://www.ldsphilanthropies.org/

Obtaining Copies of Patriarchal Blessings

Copies of Patriarchal Blessings

Did you know that you can request a copy of your patriarchal blessing if you have lost it?  You can also request a copy of a patriarchal blessing of a direct ancestor.

Interested in getting a copy of your great-grandmother's patriarchal blessing or maybe your mothers?  You can request a copy of an ancestor's blessing as long as they have already passed away and you are a direct descendant.  If you would like to do this, follow this link.   (You use your LDSAccount Username and password to sign in), then follow the prompts to request your own copy or a copy of an ancestor's blessing.  There is a limit of 4 requests per month.

If you have not received your own patriarchal blessing, you may want to prayerfully consider obtaining one.  Here is a link for How a Patriarchal Blessing can Help You.  Then speak with the bishop about receiving your own patriarchal blessing and obtaining a recommend to do so.

Priesthood Line of Authority

Priesthood Line of Authority
If you don't have a copy of your husband or son's priesthood line of authority, you can request a copy of it free of charge.  It will trace their priesthood line clear back to Joseph Smith, Peter, James, and John, and then to Jesus Christ.  You can see and know that their priesthood does come from a line of authority.

You can read more about how to get it here from the Church News.   This is a must read article as it has some great history and information to help you better understand what a priesthood line of authority is.  You can mail or e-mail the request.  If you e-mail the request, in many cases you can receive a PDF copy via e-mail by the next day.  Make sure you put PLA in the subject line of the e-mail that you send.  Here is more info as well:  https://tech.lds.org/wiki/Priesthood_Line_of_Authority

Events for March 9 and 10 and beyond

Brandon Stake Relief Society Conference
Don't forget our our Stake RS Conference this Saturday, March 9 from 9 am to noon at the Brandon Stake Center.  They will serve us breakfast first and then we will have the opportunity to attend some wonderful classes.

Ward Conference
Because Sunday, March 10 is our ward conference, we will be hearing from our stake leaders in all of our meetings.  We do not know what messages they will bring to us, so there is nothing to study, per se, but we suggest that you include our stake leaders in your prayers and do all you can to support and sustain them.

Daylight Savings Time Begins
We also want to remind you that on Sunday daylight savings time begins, so Saturday night before going to bed you want to set your clocks 1 hour ahead.  "Spring forward".  You will lose an hour of sleep, but it will be nice and bright when you wake up.

Building Cleaning
March is the Temple Terrace Ward's month to clean our building.  Someone is here on Saturday's at 9 am to open the building for cleaning, however, your family can come anytime during the week to help out with the cleaning, if that meets your schedule better.  Someone is usually in the building Monday - Friday 8 am to 3 pm who can let you into the building to clean.

Spring Break and Girl's Camp
Next week is Spring Break and the Young Women have girl's camp Monday through Friday at the church ranch in St. Cloud.

March Book Club

Monica Simon is hosting our March Book Club.  She has chosen the book titled: In the Sea There are Crocodiles by Fabio Geda.

The meeting will be on Tuesday, March 19th at 7 pm at Carlee Revoy's home.

Overview

What would you do if, when you were ten, you were left to fend for yourself, and, in order to survive, you had to undertake a harrowing journey all the way from Afghanistan to Italy?

In early 2002, Enaiatollah Akbari’s village fell prey to the Taliban. His mother, fearing for his life, led him across the border. So began Enaiat’s remarkable and often publishing five-year ordeal—trekking across bitterly cold mountains, riding the suffocating false bottom of a truck, steering an inflatable raft in violent waters—through Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, and Greece, before he eventually sought political asylum in Italy, all before he turned fifteen years old.

Here Fabio Geda delivers the moving true story of Enaiat’s extraordinary will to survive and of the accidental brotherhood he found with the boys he met along the way. In the Sea There Are Crocodiles brilliantly captures Enaiat’s engaging voice and humor, in what is a truly epic story of hope and survival, for readers of all ages.

You can obtain it at the Library.
Monica has a copy you can borrow.
Barnes and Noble has it available to order online, pick up in store,or as a Nook Book
Amazon also has it available online and on Kindle

March VT Message - Activitation

Prayerfully study this material and, as appropriate, discuss it with the sisters you visit. Use the questions to help you strengthen your sisters and to make Relief Society an active part of your life.

Activation March VT Lesson from lds.org

What Can I Do?

1. Am I confident asking a less-active sister to attend a Relief Society meeting with me?

2. Do the sisters I watch over feel comfortable asking me questions about the gospel?

RS Lesson - Sunday, March 3

Be partakers of the divine nature. … Giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; and to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity (2 Peter 1:4–7).

I have inherited divine qualities, which I will strive to develop.

The lesson for this Sunday will be on Divine Nature, our theme for the month of February.  There is no specific lesson material, but we can suggest you study some of the following links, as well as ponder about what your own divine nature is and how understanding your Divine Nature will help you make better choices in your life.

Understanding Our Own Divine Nature 

Cultivating Divine Attributes 

Daughters of Heavenly Father 

Emphasizing the Divine Worth of Each Sister