New Presidency and Awesome Sunday Stuff

 

In class today we had a re-organization of the quorum presidency.

We want to thank our outgoing presidency:

President: Kaleb, 1st Counselor: Grant, 2nd Counselor: Cayden Secretary: Josh.

Our new presidency is:

President: Hunter, 1st Counselor: Jordan, 2nd Counselor: Jonathan, Secretary: Michael

In our discussion in Teacher's Quorum today we continued our discussion about relationships of fathers and sons.  The challenge was issued to read Elder Ballard's talk mentioned in the previous post, and to invite their father/father figure to also read it.

The relationship with our fathers here on earth teach us quite a lot about how we tend think about our relationship with our Heavenly Father.  Because this is the case, it is a great idea to continually work on our relationship with our fathers/sons/children.  A great video on the topic can be can be found at the following link at lds.org  CLICK HERE.

We discussed also the Godhead and the blessing of knowing the doctrines that allow us to understand the separateness and roles of all three members of the Godhead.  Heavenly Father has a body and we are created in His image.  Jesus Christ is the Son of God and also has a body and came to the earth to be our savior.  The Holy Ghost is a spirit and he testifies of the roles of our Heavenly Father and of Jesus Christ and of all truth.

D2GG2G = D2G (Duty to God) G2G (Get ToGether) 

(2nd and 4th Sundays each month)

Today at D2GG2G we met at Bishop Erickson's home and had a discussion of our current doctrinal study topic (Prophets), and then selected our focus for Priesthood Duties (Preparing the Sacrament).  We have asked all of the teachers to notice how their preparing of the sacrament in a reverent, timely, and prepared manner helps the whole ward have a better experience each week with the sacrament.

We have asked all of the young men to ponder this and notice the effect that they can have upon the ward and then to commit to make sure that they are taking this Priesthood duty seriously.

Some of these duties include:

• Bringing bread when assigned 30 minutes before church begins
• Helping to prepare the sacrament 30 minutes before church begins to make sure that it is ready before the majority of people arrive.  This allows the ward to be focused on preparing to renew their covenants as they prepare to receive the sacrament.
• Providing ushering for the doors to help maintain reverence prior to and during the administration of the sacrament.
• Making sure that our own behavior and focus is on the ordinance of the sacrament.

 Sister Erickson made some super-delicious breadsticks with dipping sauces for us which the young men (and old men) scarfed down with enthusiasm.  (Thanks Sis. Erickson!)

Youth Fireside

There was also a youth fireside at 7:00 PM at the Stake Center.  It featured musical numbers by each ward's youth.  It was awesome and included testimonies throughout including those of the Stake's awesome sister missionaries (Sister Williams and Sister Havea).

What a great Sunday!