What a beautiful group of ladies we had turn out to lend a hand in making Turkey Boxes at our Bring a Friend Service Day. We were able to decorate and fill 26 boxes!!! This will bless the lives of 26 families. Cherry B. Silver said "As members of this worldwide organization called Relief Society, our mission is clear. In all our diversity we combine our strengths to bless each other and to do the work of the Lord." And that was just what we did. We came together and got it done. As a Relief Society presidency, we have felt strongly about getting back to one of the basic principles that Relief Society was started for: service. Look for many opportunities to pull together and serve in the new year. Levi Edgar Young said "The members of the Relief Society of the church go among the people who suffer in their feelings; who need the blessings of human helpfulness; who crave for some loving word in time of death; who hunger for some blessings in days of sorrow. They are messengers of happiness to the oppressed and the needy. They show mercy. They love mercy. It is their action of love and charity that brings the most subtle and tingling sense of happiness that can be felt by any human being. It is a conduct of life built up by faith and a feeling of joy which comes from service to mankind." I hope that we can continue to experience more of the joy that we all felt today as we gathered together to serve not just those in need, but also the Lord. We are His instruments in ministering to those in need.
