Relief Society Grillin' and Chillin'

Last week we had a Relief Society activity about summer cooking and ate grilled roast, fruit salad, grilled zuchinni and homemade vanilla ice cream.

All the pictures show some of my new church family members who I love very much...

A demonstration about cooking in a box...

ice cream demonstration...

Dutch cooking demonstration...

Fruit salad demonstration...(mint flavoring was added and it was wonderful)

Grilled roast demo...

Grilled zuchinni demo...

My Relief Society Decoupage Class

Last Tuesday I had the opportunity to teach a decoupage class at the nightime Relief Society meeting. I thoroughly enjoyed watching the ladies create their own projects and each one was so different.

A Busy Week - Part 1

MONDAY... morning started out in the usual way - get up at 4 a.m. and prepare for another week of work. However, it went downhill from there. I apparently got hit with some 24-48 hr. stomach bug once I arrived at work. Do you know what it's like to be about an hours drive away from home, without your car, without any medication and feeling like you were on the verge of dying? Unfortunately, I do. Someone at the field had to go into town though and stopped to buy me something for my upset stomach. But things didn't seem to improve and luckily for me, I hitched a ride into town about 1:00 and went straight home and to bed and stayed home TUESDAY too. Now that was a bummer as Tuesday was St. Patrick's Day. I had planned my ensemble for work which included my green beads and bringing everyone green pistachio cupcakes. But alas, that never happened. Oh well, there is always next year.

WEDNESDAY... I was feeling much better and made it all day at work. Then after coming home, I had to make 100 cupcakes for the Relief Society Birthday party Thursday night. I discovered I had only kept (1) 12 muffin and (1) 6 muffin pan so it was a long evening of baking, but the house smelled good!
THURSDAY night I hurried home, gathered my cupcakes and left once again for a very successful evening. We had approximately 50 women there and all seemed to have a good time. The theme was "Getting To Know You" and so we played a circulating game where they had to find out something about each one of the sisters. We also had a potato bar and a cupcake bar which made them get up and move around for their food. And yes, I did warn them that I would be taking pictures that might appear on my blog.

Lest I Forget

All week long I've been meaning to share a quote from our Relief Society lesson from last week. The lesson was about service - the doing and the receiving of it. I thought it was quite appropriate for me individually since Joe and I had been the recipient of so many services in the weeks we've been there i.e., snow shoveling, phone calls, home visits, lending of emergency monies, acts of kindness like digging out my snow stuck car, free services such as repairing a windblown car door for free, etc., etc., etc.

The quote that really stuck out in my mind was this...

"You cannot do a kindness too soon for you never know when it will be too late".

Isn't that a great one?!