Summer is now over - and we are back to our Goals for Relief Society! Please read through these goals, and commit to doing at least one of them - your life will be blessed by doing so!
Spiritual Goal: Often times we find ourselves saying the same things without even thinking each time we kneel down and pray. This month do things a little differently by doing these steps:
1. Find a quiet place (closet, bathroom, or lock the door to your bedroom to keep little eyes from distrubing you, etc.)
2. Ponder for a moment the things you are grateful for and the things you truly need.
3. Before starting your prayer try to visualize your Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ since this is who you are talking to.
4. After your prayer take a moment to meditate and write down any thoughts you might have.
Personal Goal: Just like in our personal prayer time we need to take a few moments each day to meditate. Find 5 minutes each day this month to simply ponder in a quiet place and again write down any thoughts you might have.
Family Goal: This month sit down with your family and decide on a time when you can study the scriptures together. Try to read the scriptures each day as a family even if its only a verse.
Food Storage Goal: Evaluate your families water needs this month and try to get a basic water supply started. For guidance on this go to lds.org, mouse over Home and Family, click on Family Home Storage, then click on Drinking water.
Challenge: Women need women,and each one of us desries to have people around us that we love and who loves us. In the August Friend - President Eyering wrote an article entitled "Knitting Our Hearts Together". Take time this month to to read this article. Take some extra time to pray for those sisters in our ward that you know or even don't know. Then as we were challenged in our Relief Society Lesson given by Sister Lewis & Sister Evans, pray to find people that you can serve. Write down their names and then contemplate what you might be able to do to serve them and then go and do it. As we get to know one another and serve one another our hearts will become knit together and we will find a greater sense of love and peace in our lives.