Time Out for Women 2012

FRI SEPT 21, 2012 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
SAT SEPT 22, 2012 9:00 AM - 3:45 PM

Cashman Center
Hall A 850 N. Las Vegas Blvd.
Las Vegas, NV 89101

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Sharing Your Beliefs

Are you ready?

• Join us tomorrow night, August 14th, for our Vegas Valley Ward Relief Society Temple Night, the 6:30 p.m. session.  Our goal is to do work for family names provided to us by sisters in our Ward.  Do you have some?  Do you need some help getting names ready for our Temple night?  If so, let a member of the Relief Society Presidency know.  Please join us . . .
• Friday, September 7th at 6 p.m. is the Stake High Priest Social at our Stake Center.  All High Priests, spouses and all single sisters are invited.  Come to the Country Fair!
• The Temple View Family History Center is now open!  It is sponsored by the Sunrise, Central and East Stakes and is located in the building that was previously the Distribution Center on the Temple grounds.  The hours are 9 a.m. until 7 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.  Premium websites for research such as Ancestry.com are available free of charge.  Bring your membership number if you have not previously registered on the church's websites.  Bring your nonmember friends!  We can find our ancestors.  The Center's phone number is 438-6914.
• Seminary Registration Fireside is Sunday, August 19th.  Look for more information on Sunday.
• See our "Calendar of Events (to the right) for other important dates to remember.  Also see http://www.lds.org

What's new...

• Mark your calendar for our Vegas Valley Ward Relief Society Temple Night on Tuesday, August 14th, the 6:30 p.m. session.  Our goal is to do work for family names provided to us by sisters in our Ward.  Do you have some?  Do you need some help getting names ready for our Temple night?  If so, let a member of the Relief Society Presidency know.  Join us . . .
• Friday, September 7th at 6 p.m. is the Stake High Priest Social at our Stake Center.  All High Priests, spouses and all single sisters are invited.  Come to the Country Fair!
• The Temple View Family History Center is now open!  It is sponsored by the Sunrise, Central and East Stakes and is located in the building that was previously the Distribution Center on the Temple grounds.  The hours are 9 a.m. until 7 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.  Premium websites for research such as Ancestry.com are available free of charge.  Bring your membership number if you have not previously registered on the church's websites.  Bring your nonmember friends!  We can find our ancestors.  The Center's phone number is 438-6914
• See our "Calendar of Events (to the right) for other important dates to remember.  Also see http://www.lds.org

August Visiting Teaching Message

Taking Action in Time of Need

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Prayerfully study this material and, as appropriate, discuss it with the sisters you visit. Use the questions to help you strengthen your sisters and to make Relief Society an active part of your own life.

Taking Action in Time of Need

As visiting teachers, one of our purposes is to help strengthen families and homes. The sisters we visit should be able to say, “If I have problems, I know my visiting teachers will help without waiting to be asked.” In order to serve, we have a responsibility to be conscious of the needs of the sisters we visit. When we seek inspiration, we will know how to respond to the spiritual and temporal needs of each sister we are assigned to visit. Then, using our time, skills, talents, prayers of faith, and spiritual and emotional support, we can help give compassionate service during times of illness, death, and other special circumstances.¹

Through the help of reports from visiting teachers, the Relief Society presidency identifies those who have special needs because of physical or emotional illness, emergencies, births, deaths, disability, loneliness, or other challenges. The Relief Society president then reports her findings to the bishop. Under his direction, she coordinates assistance.²

As visiting teachers we can have “great reason … to rejoice” because of “the blessing which hath been bestowed upon us, that we have been made instruments in the hands of God to bring about this great work” (Alma 26:1, 3).

From the Scriptures

Matthew 22:37–40; Luke 10:29–37; Alma 26:1–4; Doctrine and Covenants 82:18–19

From Our History

In the early years of the Church, membership was small and centralized. Members could respond quickly when someone was in need. Today our membership is over 14 million and is spread throughout the world. Visiting teaching is part of the Lord’s plan to provide help for all His children.

“The only system which could provide succor and comfort across a church so large in a world so varied would be through individual servants near the people in need,” said President Henry B. Eyring, First Counselor in the First Presidency.

“… Every bishop and every branch president has a Relief Society president to depend upon,” he continued. “She has visiting teachers, who know the trials and the needs of every sister. She can, through them, know the hearts of individuals and families. She can meet needs and help the bishop in his call to nurture individuals and families.”³

For more information, go to reliefsociety.lds.org.

What Can I Do?

1. Am I using my gifts and talents to bless others?
2. Do the sisters I watch over know that I am willing to help them when they have a need?