Social, Book Club and More......

Well, as usual I am rushing to get caught up.  We had a wonderful time at our soical last week, though there were many of you that we missed seeing.  We had lots of great food and great visits with each other--thanks for all who came, we hope you enjoyed it as much as our presidency did!  Thanks Rachelle for all you do as RS Meeting Coordinator.

At that social, we announced the beginning of our NEW Book Club, which will take a slightly different route than our old one did with the Deseret Book books.  We have the chance to use books from the elementary, that way we are able to offer the club without cost to anyone at this point.  These are all books that have been Caldecott (Together with the Newbery Medal, it is the most prestigious American children's book award) and Newberry (This award is given to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.) Medal winners--So, it is a slightly different level of reading than we used before, but so far I have heard a lot of good things from those who have been reading our first selection, so far, which is "Where the Red Fern Grows," by Wilson Rawls.  If you are interested in reading the book, and meeting with the book club each month, DANA RODEN will be in charge of the club, and you can contact her or Loree Stackhouse about getting a book or get one from the library yourself if you want.  The book club will be held on Thursday evening, but which one, I am not positive, I will check and update it on the calendar to the side of the blog as soon as I know!  UPDATE: The 1st Thursday of every month will be book club and we will let you know at what time--it will be held in the RS room!

We are also excited to be starting work on reaching goals of provident living together.  Sister LORETTA PRINCE has accepted a call to serve as our Provident Living Coordinator and she will be working in a lot of areas such as: coordinating trips to the cannery, RS Workshops on self-reliance and provident living, and even on finding good deals on purchases for food storage and emergency preparedness.  We are just getting started, but as we get going we will keep you informed!!

I also forgot to mention that we will soon be setting dates to start our KNITTING CLASS (taught by Robin Bradfield)  our CROCHETING CLASS (Taught by Renae Hansen) and our PLAYGROUP for MOMS with YOUNG KIDS (Coordinated by Christy Cheney)  If you are interested in any of these groups please contact them or one of our presidency!!

I hope that if you ever have questions or concerns that you will come to us--I have been gone a lot on the weekends since receiving this call and will continue do so in order to spend time with Grant's mom, so I am relying heavily on my counselors to run Sundays, but am home during the week if needed, so please feel free to call us or email us over anything you might need!

Thanks,
Sister Perkins