Forum Replies Created
-
AuthorPosts
-
I usually try and say hello to everyone when I come in to Relief Society because I have had times where no one talks to me and I also was lucky to have a great sister in the Ward welcome me when we first moved in. One thing I have tried lately is to make sure I sit next to someone who is alone or try to find a friend if I am not having the best day. Then I feel better when I leave church for the day. I know I have left church feeling like I talked too much during a lesson or activity, but I have been trying to not be so hard on myself.
-
June 30, 2010 at 4:15 pm in reply to: VIDEO: Mesa Arizona YW Camp Theme Live Like You Believe #244189
I would love to make a similar video for our girls camp. What is the music and where can I find it? Also which talk did you get the prophets counsel from?
-
The hardest lesson I had to learn in attending Relief Society: Stop comparing myself to other sisters. Once I almost left Church before Relief Society because I noticed my exposed toes were all chipped up with old polish and my feet needed a good sloughing. Truly, how ridiculous and prideful is that? When I attend with the intent of feeling the Spirit and looking for the message that is for me, I enjoy the meeting much more fully.
I try to pay attention when new sisters are introduced and often I’ll stop by their home with a ward list and some salsa.
Like other sisters, I attended Relief Society for 15 years while childless. It was hard and I thought once I was a mother I would ‘fit in’ more. Nope. My life is still diverse and different from many of the other sisters, and being a ‘mother’ isn’t the requisite for being a Sister in Relief Society. I realized that it’s about ‘womanhood’ and who we are and what we do in our journey here on earth.
BTW – Sometimes I sit alone because I just want some space around me after having been climbed on by kids during Sacrament!
-
I try not to sit by my best friends in RS. I try to find someone that I only see on Sunday, or someone I don’t know. Often, our best friends are in our ward. When we are always seen with them at church, as well as during the week, it may seem clique-ish. If we seek out those we don’t have such an intimate relationship with on Sunday, we can enlarge our own circle of friends, as well. Who doesn’t want more friends, right?
-
I, too, have at times felt like I didn’t belong in Relief Society, but like the other comments before, which are wonderful, I might add, You need to forget yourself and go to work. We don’t go to Relief Society to fit in or find our best friend, we go to Relief Society to see how we can serve our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! Pray that you will be able serve Him with all your might, mind and strength and that you will have the Courage to Try, Try, Try, and you will find friends and much happiness along the way!
-
Smoking?
Someone walked past me in Sacrament meeting and left a wake of that distinctive smoker smell. I watched as others caught their personal whiffs and noticed their reactions. The single mother sat alone with her small child and I could feel the eyes on her. Mine included.
Then I saw a one of my favorite sisters get up and sit behind her and spoke and chuckled with her and loved all over her.
It inspired me. I later spoke with the sister myself and found her delightful.
I spoke with my favorite sister later that day and she said. “the sweetest smell is the smell of smoke at church” She said that is the sign of someone trying. Trying hard. Then she said….”my kinda people”.
I cried.
-
I feel out of place pretty often, especially as I am unwillfully childless 13 years on.
I get closed in and sad and angry and any other emotion that is not really useful when I am at any meeting that places a lot of time on the value of motherhood, or what to do for family home evening, or how to be a better mom grandma whatever.
None of these subjects apply to me.
And so I feel like a fish out of water and I just. need. to. get. out.So I know what it’s like.
It’s not nice, but there are days that are worth it. The lesson speaks to me. The prayer is somehow what exactly I wanted to hear. The woman next to me cracks a joke when some ignorant comment is made (ie: No woman can get into the C.K. without motherhood, no woman has real value until motherhood, there is no joy above being a parent, polygamy is justified because every husband deserves to have a son… ect.)
I understand the sadness of those days.
Every woman has felt the same thing, don’t despair. We all have our shadows on Sunday. -
More comments from our facebook friends:
Jodie J says:
Sit by someone who is alone, get to know them. Stop thinking about “me.”
Tracy P-A says:
I remember the reason I am there, and that gives me comfort
-
This is great!
-
I would love to be able to download the 5 min. devotionals. I’m going to girls camp next week and would love some great ideas for the morning devotionals. I’ve clicked on it and it sends me to Christy’s clip art but I can’t find it anywhere. Can you help?
-
I’m a census worker in Georgia and we’ve added a special question for LDS Georgians:
23. How many of your neighbors have told you that they are praying for you? (and not in a good way)
A. What’s a neighbor?
B. A couple, but they probably meant it in the good way….
C. I’m on multiple prayer lists…
D. They’ve given up on me. -
video of roll call
-
If you get the words, I would love a copy. Thanks so much.
-
I was also doing some research on this and found an article in the January 2010 New Era called “What’s New In Personal Progress”. In case there are any other questions or you need a source for the leaders in your area. (I am so excited!)
-
Reading the scriptures while writing a journal about each book. At the beginning they could put their testimony and also after. Then they can keep it their whole life and share it w/ their children.
-
AuthorPosts
