Category: Organizations

Relief Society Message

By Relief Society Presidency 14 Jun, 2020

Good Morning Sisters,

I am grateful I had the opportunity to ponder and pray about a message for the Relief Society Sisters this week.  I want each of you sisters to know that the Relief Society Presidency loves you and we think of you and pray for you often. 

The message I would like to share today comes from the April 2020 General Conference address by Douglas D. Holmes ‘Deep in our hearts’.  The Lord is trying to help us get His gospel deeper in our hearts in order to prepare us to receive Him.  I would like to highlight two principles that Brother Holmes shared that each of us can work on to help us become closer to our Heavenly Father and be ready to receive Him. 

The first principle is relationships.  Brother Holmes reminded us that we are not expected to walk the covenant path alone.  Developing relationships with family, friends and leaders etc. will help us along the path.  Elder Renlund discussed how we can develop relationships with others: “To effectively serve others, we must see them through Heavenly Father’s eyes.  Only then can we begin to comprehend the true worth of a soul.  Only then can we sense the love that Heavenly Father has for all His children”. 

What a wonderful gift it is to be able to see others as God does.  If each of us were striving to do this, how would it impact our families, our ward and our communities?  There are so many things in the world now that divide us but if we are working on strengthening or building relationships with others through service and seeing them as God does, we can make an impact for good in our world. 

Second principle:  Connecting hearts with Heaven through revelation, agency and repentance.  Brother Holmes said, “in order to connect our hearts with heaven, we need individual experiences.  Those experiences come as the Holy Ghost carries the word and love of God to our mind and heart”.  In the same conference session, Elder Neil L. Anderson spoke about spiritually defining memories that help … Read the rest

Seminary Graduation 2020

By Bishopric 6 Jun, 2020

Graduation – Sunday, June 7th 6:00p-6:30p

Seminary Graduation on Sunday!

There will be a 30 minute virtual meeting for EVERYONE (not just graduates) who attended seminary this year on YouTube.

Following the graduation broadcast, all of the graduates are invited to a drive-thru where we will take some time to congratulate them on this accomplishment. Please limit your family group to one car per family.

Seminary Broadcast

Youth Stake Activity

By Young Women's Presidency 29 Apr, 2020

We’ve had to cancel our Stake Youth Activity that was scheduled for this coming Thursday, April 30. But we’d still like to hold a virtual activity with our youth. Logistics make this difficult to hold at a certain date and time. Instead, we’ve decided to invite our youth to participate in a COVID-19 Mask Competition (see attached flyer). They can design and create masks that they, their family members, and/or other people can use. If the youth create more masks than they and their family can use, we will donate them locally. We will give prizes to the youth for various categories, such as most creative mask, most colorful mask, most professional mask, etc. For the youth who creates the most masks to donate (see below), we will have a special award. We will even have a best design award for those youth who are not able to acquire the materials or means to actually make the masks–they can design masks on an electronic device (iPad, phone) or sketch it on paper and submit their design for award consideration.

As a stake, we do not have the materials for the masks. However, for those youth who legitimately want to create a good number of masks to donate, volunteer kits and materials can be acquired through Project Protect and the Just Serve Initiative. More information is available at: https://projectprotect.health/#/

Attached are some basic instructions for 2 different types of masks. The youth can use these patterns (or their own pattern/design) and material of their own to create their masks. We hope that youth leaders and parents will help our youth acquire material and tools to make this happen–there may be ward members who have extra material and thread that they would donate. (If a ward needs to purchase material to enable its youth to participate, please speak to me or Sis. Watson before purchasing, as we may be able to assist with that purchase via the stake youth budget.) If the youth do not have access to a sewing machine, they may (1) sew the mask by hand, (2) work with parents/leaders … Read the rest

POSTPONED to 2021 – FSY Registration

By Bishopric 19 Apr, 2020

Due to the ongoing impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic, it has become necessary to postpone For the Strength of Youth (FSY) conferences held in 2020 in the U.S. and Canada to now be held in 2021. Refunds will automatically be made to those who have registered.

Church Annnoucement

Brothers and Sisters-

Today is officially the first day that registration for FSY camps is open. There has been some confusion about this since it is the first time. I think we have gotten things worked out on our end.

1) Your child must be registered for an LDS account in order to register. This requires an email and your child’s membership number which can be found on LDS tools. If you have difficulty please reach out to a member of the bishopric for help. Each youth must be approved by the bishop, but I cannot approve them until they have a church account set up. Everyone that currently has an account should already be approved. If there is a problem, or once the account is set up please reach out to me to get them approved.

2) Your youth is able to go to FSY is they are turning 14 this year and older. They are not eligible if they are graduating high school or older in 2020.

3) Wards and stakes will NOT be signing up together for a particular week. Choose a week and location that works for you. With all of the changes this year in the youth program we have gotten behind on dates for multi-day youth camps for the young men. We will have those figured tonight.

4) The cost of FSY is $150.00. $75 will be required from you and the ward will cover the other $75. Because of this please make sure to cancel as soon as possible if you find out that you will not be able to make it the week that you sign up, so we can avoid this charge.

If you have any questions please reach out to me or one of my councilors.

Here is a link directing … Read the rest

CANCELED – Multi-Stake Dance 3/14

By Bishopric 12 Mar, 2020

Saturday, March 14, 2020 7­:10 pm Sunset Ridge Stake Center
8107 S 6700 W, West Jordan, UT 84081

DOWNLOAD DANCE FLYER

CASUAL DRESS
Wear your favorite Disney, Pixar, Marvel, or Star Wars attire. Disneybounding welcome. No weapons.
Dress must comply with For the Strength of Youth guidelines. Shorts, skirts, & dresses must be at least to the knee. Shirts should cover midriff and shoulders. Clothing may not be low­cut in front or back.

Game room with refreshments when you want to take a break from dancing.

Please see a member of the bishopric if you need a dance card.

Teachers Quorum Activity

By Young Men's Presidency 16 Feb, 2020

Young Men who are Teachers, we are going to the Riverton Family History Center this Tuesday night. Please be at the church at 6:45 PM. Have your own phone or any phone you can use to log into the “FamilySearch Tree” app. You’ll need to create a login if you haven’t already.

Also, a permission slip signed by your parents will be required. Please talk to your Quorum Presidency to get the form.

Service Opportunity

By Relief Society Presidency 29 Jan, 2020

This last August during the United Nations event a service project in conjunction with Feeding Children Everywhere was completed. JustServe was able to help with the need for volunteers, around 4000, to help the project be successful. Many meals were assembled to help the poor.

This years Silicone Slopes Tech Summit will be held Jan. 27-Jan. 31, 2020 and a similar service project will be happening. They will need help with volunteers as well.

Many members of the community have expressed desire to help so the project is posted on the JustServe website. Here is information regarding JustServe.org and the “Fight Hunger With Silicon Slopes” project:

  • There are many wonderful opportunities for service listed on JustServe.org.
  • Working in partnership with JustServe and community organizations and businesses, the “Fight Hunger With Silicon Slopes” service project will be held in conjunction with the Silicon Slopes Tech Summit January 30-31 in the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City.
  • One million meals will be assembled and packaged with partner, Hunger Fight, and shared with the Utah Food Bank for distribution to those in need within the state of Utah.
  • Those attending the Tech Summit will be invited to participate in the project but – because of its scale – anyone else who would like to participate is also invited.
  • Those interested in participating can go to the following link on the JustServe website to sign up: https://www.justserve.org/projects/5ea93258-9d16-402e-b343-2d2247a741d0

Deacon’s Quorum Activity

By Bishopric 26 Jan, 2020

This week’s Deacon’s Quorum Activity will be Thursday January 30th (we will NOT be meeting on Tuesday).  We will be going to the Oquirrh Mountain Temple to do baptisms.  Please bring family names if you have any available.  We will be meeting at the Church at 4:20 pm.  Please remember your recommend.

Deacon’s Quorum Activity

By Bishopric 20 Jan, 2020

Tuesday January 21st at 7:00 pm

Parents, this Tuesday we will start setting up Family Search accounts for the Deacon’s (on https://www.familysearch.org/en/ ) and show them how to search for names to take to the temple.

If you would like your son to participate in this please send them with the following:

  • Parent’s email account to which a permission request will be sent

  • A Username your son would like to use for the website

  • Password your son can use for the website (must be at least 8 characters long and include letters and numbers; recommend a 20 character password be used)

  • Email address your son will use for the website (can be a Parent’s e-mail address or your son’s email address)