Miracles - Our Hands Are His Hands

Remember when President Renner spoke to us last Sunday about miracles and after that I shared with you about miracles that happened when I was preparing the Relief Society Birthday celebration? I experienced another one today.

Remember also that I highlighted a few articles from the Ensign and Liahona that I felt were really important to us? I've posted the Ensign magazine on the right so that you can click on it and read them.

Anyway, one of the articles I mentioned was Focussing on the Lord's Work of Salvation by Julie B Beck, our current General Relief Society President. One of the things she mentioned was: "Visiting teachers minister in behalf of the Savior. Our hands are His hands, our love is His love, and our service is His service."

Now, how did that happen? How was it that our chosen theme was also HANDS? Sisters, I believe that was a miracle. The Lord truly was mindful of us and wanted us to know and understand this concept.

There's another article that echoes the one above entitled: on faith: Relief Society united worldwide in faith and service to others.

The two Enrichment Meetings we had (The Visiting Teaching Workshop and The Relief Society Birthday) truly are tied together and you'll be able to see the connection by reading these articles. Just click on the titles.

Valiant in the Cause of Christ

I love the lesson we had last Sunday.  We learnt the meaning of being valiant.  The dictionary meaning is possessing or showing courage or determination.  Do we have what it takes?  Here's the checklist:

1. cheerfully do all we can, even during times of trouble.
2. love the cause of Christ and strive to develop Christlike qualities.
3. strive to improve ourselves while in this life.
4. endure faithfully to the end.

I know we can do it.  Let us strive each day to be valiant in the cause of Christ and help one another as sisters to achieve the same.

167th Relief Society Birthday

What fun birthday cupcakes we had!

Most of us who were there, minus 2 who had to leave.

HANDS!  The theme of our activity.

I sure hope all 27 of us learnt something about our hands and how our hands represent the Lord's hands in our service to others.

To the sisters who couldn't make it, we sure did miss you!

Why Mormons Build Temples

In line with President Renner's message, I feel it appropriate to post this video so that we can all have the correct understanding of our temples especially for those of us who haven't been there before.

Message from President Renner

A lot of people are getting bent out of shape over the upcoming episode of "Big Love" on HBO.  The episode is of course crude and members are free to boycott HBO as my family certainly does.  However, I feel the spirit of the LDS press release is dead-center with regard to the issue.

The link to the press release is:

http://www.newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/commentary/the-publicity-dilemma

Living with Others in Peace and Harmony

What a wonderful lesson we had today.  Just to recap, here are some parts of the lesson:

1. We want to live in peace with all men.
2. By striving to be peacemakers, we can live in greater harmony and love with others.
3. In the Sermon on the Mount, the Savior taught, "Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God."
4. We can cultivate peace by honoring one another and refusing to find fault.
5. We can cultivate harmony in our communities by respecting the freedom of all people to believe according to their own conscience.
6. We will ... cultivate peace and friendship with all, mind our own business, and come off with flying colors, respected, because, in respecting others, we respect ourselves.

Visiting Teaching Workshop

We had such a spiritual experience on Saturday.  I felt the spirit so strongly.  Thank you, Sister Lim for inspiring us to do our best in our visiting teaching.

Personal Righteousness

I was privileged to teach yesterday and I'd just like to post some quotes used in the lesson on the Ten Virgins.

Someone proposed a serious question to me a few years ago by asking, "What is the most important item to have stored in your year's supply?" My response was seriously given - personal righteousness.

--Marion G Romney, Ensign, April 7, 1981, 6

In the parable, oil can be purchased at the market. In our lives the oil of preparedness is accumulated drop by drop in righteous living. Attendance at sacrament meetings adds oil to our lamps, drop by drop over the years. Fasting, family prayer, home teaching, control of bodily appetites, preaching the gospel, studying the scriptures, each act of dedication and obedience is a drop added

to our store. Deeds of kindness, payment of offerings and tithes, chaste thoughts and actions, marriage in the covenant for eternity, these, too, contribute importantly to the oil with which we can at midnight refuel our exhausted lamps.

--Spencer W Kimball, Faith Precedes the Miracle, 256

Quote - Challenges

"When the challenges of mortality come, and they come for all of us, it may seem hard to have faith and hard to believe. At these times only faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and His Atonement can bring us peace, hope, and understanding. Only faith that He suffered for our sakes will give us the strength to endure to the end. When we gain this faith, we experience a mighty change of heart, and like Enos, we become stronger and begin to feel a desire for the welfare of our brothers and sisters. We pray for them, that they too will be lifted and strengthened through faith on the Atonement of our Savior Jesus Christ."

--Rober D Hales, "Finding Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ," Ensign, November 2004, 73

Come What May And Love It

I was so glad today that we had a lesson on this talk by the late Elder Joseph B Wirthlin.  I hope we can all develop this great attitude that his mother had lovingly taught him.  Here's a clip to help us remember him and what he said.

Quote - Courage

"Life's journey is not traveled on a freeway devoid of obstacles, pitfalls, and snares. Rather, it is a pathway marked by forks and turnings. Decisions are constantly before us. To make them wisely, courage is needed: the courage to say, 'No,' the courage to say, 'Yes.' Decisions do determine destiny. The call for courage comes constantly to each of us. It has ever been so, and so shall it ever be."

--Thomas S Monson, "The Call for Courage", Ensign, May 2004, 54-55

I love quotes from our church leaders. They are like scripture to me. This is a feature I'd like to add to this blog so that all of us can learn together. What do you think?

Welcome, All Sisters

Hi everyone!  I am really excited about this new blog.  I had prayed about how we could communicate more effectively and this idea came to me.

I am no seasoned-blogger but I will do my best to post whatever I can that is related to us sisters in the Kuala Lumpur Branch Relief Society.

Please do comment if you have ideas about this blog or anything that we can do to improve our sisterhood.

I hope to update this blog often so please come visit whenever you can or you can subscribe to it so that you'll be informed whenever there's a new post.

All sisters who have your own blogs, please let me know how I can link you to this blog so that other sisters can read your blogs too.

So, here it is - our very own blog!