The Best is Yet to Be

“As a new year begins and we try to benefit from a proper view of what has gone before, I plead with you not to dwell on days now gone nor to yearn vainly for yesterdays, however good those yesterdays may have been. The past is to be learned from but not lived in. We look back to claim the embers from glowing experiences but not the ashes. And when we have learned what we need to learn and have brought with us the best that we have experienced, then we look ahead and remember that faith is always pointed toward the future. Faith always has to do with blessings and truths and events that will yet be efficacious in our lives.”

 Jeffrey R. Holland, "The Best Is Yet to Be", Ensign, Jan. 2010, 22–27

Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself

“President Smith’s love for others grew from his sincere conviction that we are all brothers and sisters, children of the same Heavenly Father. Near the end of his life, he said to the Saints:

‘I do not have an enemy that I know of, and there is no one in the world that I have any enmity towards. All men and all women are my Father’s children, and I have sought during my life to observe the wise direction of the Redeemer of mankind—to love my neighbor as myself. … You will never know how much I love you. I have not words to express it. And I want to feel that way toward every son and every daughter of my Heavenly Father.”’²

 Teachings of Presidents of the Church: George Albert Smith, Chapter 2, 2010

Living What We Believe

“It was reported to [President Smith] that someone had stolen from his buggy the buggy robe. Instead of being angry, he responded: ‘I wish we knew who it was, so that we could give him the blanket also, for he must have been cold; and some food also, for he must have been hungry.’”³ 

Teachings of Presidents of the Church: George Albert Smith, Chapter 1, 2010

Sunday Lesson Schedule for January

Jan. 1st: Presidency Message

Jan. 8th: Teachings of George Albert Smith, Ch. 1: Living What We Believe, taught by Sister Beck

Jan. 15th: Teachings of George Albert Smith, Ch. 2: Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself, taught by Sister Remali

Jan. 22nd: Ward Conference

Jan. 29th: By Direction of the Bishop

Upcoming Events & Announcements

Our Stake Temple Weekend is January 6th and 7th.

There is a YSA planning meeting/pitch-in at 6:30 pm at the Franklin Building on Sunday, January 8th. Following the meeting there is a CES Devotional Broadcast at 8 pm.

Institute meets every Tuesday at 7 pm at the Franklin Building.

There is a SA Committee Meeting at 6 pm at the Stake Center on Sunday, January 15th. Following the meeting there is a SA Fireside at 7pm.

Wednesday, January 18th there is a SA Temple Trip (morning session).

Book Club will meet Thursday, January 19th at 7 pm at Sister Carroll’s house. We will be reading “The Doctor’s Lady” by Jody Hedlund.

Our Ward Conference is Sunday, January 22nd.

There is a CES Broadcast 100 Year Commemoration that will be broadcast Sunday, January 22nd at 6 pm.