Relief Society Birthday Dinner

Ladies Day Out to George Washington Masonic Memorial

On Thursday, February 24th, six sisters gathered to tour the George Washington Masonic Memorial in Alexandria. In spite of some traffic we were there before it opened. The memorial was built between 1922 and 1932. This statue inside the memorial is one of the largest of George Washington.

The portrait below is supposed to be one of the most accurate and least idealized portraits of George Washington.

This chair is one George Washington brought from Mount Vernon for him to use at Masonic meetings in Alexandria. After his death it became the chair for the Grand Master, and even now is used once a year.

This is the actual clock that was in the room when GW died. His doctor was also a mason, and he stopped the clock at the hour of Washington's death.

Our tour guide took us to several of the rooms on the different floors of the memorial. The one below was in honor of the Knights Templar.

This large cup represents the vessel used in Solomon's temple to cleanse the animals before they were sacrificed. We thought it looked familiar.

This was the view from the observation tower at the top of the memorial. This is King street in Alexandria that leads to the Potomac River.

We learned lots about George Washington and the Masons, and felt like it was a day well spent.

Ladies Day Out to Washington National Cathedral

On January 31st, seven sisters gathered to tour the Washington National Cathedral and to hear a short talk and demonstration on the cathedral organ. We learned that besides Woodrow Wilson, Helen Keller and her teacher Anne Sullivan are interred at the cathedral. We also made an unscheduled stop at Georgetown Cupcakes, since we were driving right by the shop and saw there wasn't a line. We had a really fun day.

Be of A Good Courage

What a wonderful evening we shared together. Brother and Sister Kirk were wonderful. They spoke to us living our lives in a way that we can always hold our heads up high knowing that we are doing the right thing. Having the courage to be honest in a world that is often not.

We also had great fun when we had to get into the secret box - while wearing hat, scarf and oven mitts. It keep us all laughing.

We finished off the evening with some helpful self defense tips from Gina and her friend Victor. They demonstrated for us some things that we could do to protect ourselves. We all enjoyed trying these new moves on our partners and had a great time seeing how well they worked.

We also had some marvelous cupcakes. They all were to beautiful to even judge, they were all so amazing. Thank you to all of our wonderful sisters who shared their masterpieces with us.

Thank you all for a wonderful evening!

April 22 Temporal and Spiritual Prepardness

Come learn how to be spiritually and temporally prepared.

Sister Kristi Sumner will speak to us about how to build our spiritual preparation then we will put together our 72 hour kits.

All money is due to Julene by April 12.

Please join us even if you didn't purchase a kit. You will enjoy being with other Relief Society Sisters and learning how to become more prepared.

If you have any questions please contact a member of the Relief Society Board.

See you there!

An Amazing Race it was!

Congratulations to Jen Leigh and Laurie Black the winners of our Amazing Race. They were the first to complete all stations in our Amazing Race. We had a great evening learning and eating our way through the basics of food storage.

Thanks for all who came and participated and all of our wonderful station coordinators.

Here are some pictures of the evening.