Save Our Sisters

In our church we have a program called Visiting Teaching where two sisters go and visit certain sisters in our congregation and share a message with them on a monthly basis. I am charge of this program in my congregation and we had a conference about it two weeks ago. The theme for our conference was Save Our Sisters (SOS).

We asked the sisters to bring desserts to share and they were delicious. I decorated each of the tables with maroon and blue table runners, red chargers I conveniently found at the church, decorative sand, LED candles, and seashells. One of the other leaders brought a beautiful painting of a light house and I had a huge bowl of life savers set out. I spoke and used these resources as a guide for what I said.

• Daughters in My Kingdom book
• Church handbook section 9.1 
• This video about visiting teaching
• This talk from the 2011 BYU Women's Conference
• This talk by Elder Rasband of the 70 (8:21-9:36)
• This song by Julia De Azevedo
• My favorite talk of all time by Elder Uchtdorf

 It was a beautiful night that I forgot to take any pictures of! Here is a picture of what the poster looked like. I'm a sucker for 3-D displays :)

General Conference Kits

So, as I've mentioned, all of us Wayward Girls are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, sometimes called "Mormon," One really neat thing about our church is that twice a year we get to hear from our church leaders in a worldwide broadcast. This includes a living prophet, just like Noah and Moses.  We call this meeting General Conference.

 

I wanted to prepare a goodie bag for the sisters I visit teach in preparation for Conference. Visiting teaching is another program in our church, set up to take care of every individual. Two women are assigned to visit another woman monthly and share a spiritual message. They are also directed to pray for this sister throughout the month and help minister to her needs. I wanted to help the sisters I visit teach gear up for conference. I put together these little kits to help.

Here are the contents: 

A notebook and nice pen to take notes

Hot Tamales to help you stay awake!

M&Ms to much on

Tissues, in case you tear up

Cost break down:

Notebook: $1

Pen: $0.50

Tissues: $0.15

Hot Tamales: $1

M&Ms: $0.79

Bag: $0.50

Total:  $3.94

I also plan to write a little note about conference, maybe something like this. I'm really excited for General Conference, and invite you to check it out. 

What would you put in this kit?