What happened on Sunday

1. It was great to have Emma with us in Relief Society.
2. Jill asked for those who were interested in having cottage meetings in their homes. Please let Jill know if you are able to open your home for these meetings.
3. The Young Mothers will meet together this week for a planning meeting (check your email)
4. Visiting Teaching Workshop will be held on the 9th October at the Chapel, a meal will be served. More details soon.
5. Diana shared with us some peaceful music from a CD that Fran has put out with the group she plays with.
6. The lesson this week was Lesson 13 - "Obedience: When the Lord Commands, Do It".

• "When we seek to know God's will and do everything He commands us to do, the blessings of heaven will rest upon us...
• 'As a Church and a people it behooves us to be wise, and to seek to know the will of God, and then be willing to do it" (that's the hard part - be willing to do it, it's easy to know what we are meant to be doing, it's another thing to actually do it!)
• "God gives laws that will prepare us for celestial rest if we obey them".

Sisters I know the Lord wants to bless us all and when we are obedient, great blessings are ours, and peace is a part of our lives. I hope we can all try a little harder to be obedient to God's commandments, I know our lives will be richer and happier if we do.

HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEK.

Quilting Enrichment Activity Update

Sorry no photos this month of our quilting group - forgot to take the camera last night, but check the blog next month because there will be photos of Kristy's completed quilt (she started binding it last night), Tanya will have her star quilt pieced by then, Lindy will still be working on her Christmas stockings and Wendy will be as enthusiastic and helpful as always.

Next month we are going to make a modern rag doll that can be chewing, thrown around and is almost indestructable to a little one. If you are interested in coming along please let Wendy know. Photos coming soon.

Calling for Christmas Recipes

Anyone who would like to contribute a simple Christmas recipe that is part of your family tradition at Christmas time is most welcome to send their Christmas recipe to Lindy or Janet before the end of October. To avoid having too many recipes of the same type we will accept the first recipe we receive in a certain catagory (eg shortbread). It doesn't have to be a Christmas food ie plum pudding etc. just something that you make every year. For example I always make a fruit flan for my family and although no one likes to eat them, the year I didn't make one everyone was very upset!!!!

We will be making a small Christmas recipe book to be handed out at our Christmas Enrichment Meeting - stay posted for more information! There will be tasting on the night!

VISITING TEACHING WORKSHOP

A few weeks away in the month of October will be our Visiting Teaching Workshop. Rachael has some wonderful thoughts to help uplift us all and inspire us with our visiting teaching. We will be having a meal together. We will not only be feeding our physical bodies but we will also be fed spiritually as well. We'll keep you posted!

Thanks

Thanks to all the sisters who did a great job for last week's 50th Anniversary of the Rosny Chapel. Thanks to those sisters who 'manned' the Relief Society room, who provided 'things' for us to display, thanks to those sisters who came and helped us set up, and thanks to the wonderful Primary and Young Women sisters who did a fantastic job with their displays.

It was great discovering all those who have served in the past as Relief Society presidents - thank you to everyone who provided photos to help us with our display.

Food Storage Bargains

Karenne (at last Gourmet Girls Gathering) informed us of a bargain at No Frills out in Moonah for drinking chocolate and cocoa. You can buy (in plain foil packs as shown) 1 kg of cocoa for $10.00 and 1kg drinking chocolate for $5.00. Karenne assures us they are fine for consuming and they certainly are a bargain price compared to what you would pay in the supermarket. Let's face it, putting drinking chocolate in your skim powdered milk is surely going to make it more palatable in a time of need!

Gourmet Girls - what next?

OK all you Gourmet Girls out there. We were so engrossed with food storage/breadmaking at Karenne & Guy's last time that we forgot to organise what we wanted to do for next month.

Does anyone have anything that they would like to learn to make, like to demonstrate, or whatever? Please let one of the Presidency know if there is something that you would like to have for our Gourmet Girls gathering.

Some ideas to help you out:-

1. Successful Sushi

2. Cooking with Oates (eg. homemade muesli, muesli bars, biscuits etc.)

3. Food dehydrating

4. Lentil recipes (that are edible)