How Glorious Are Faithful, Just, and True Friends!!!

The announcements for this week are:
We are so excited for a adult fireside that is coming up!
It will be on November 22, at 7:00pm.
President Smith along with Nile Smith will be our speakers. It is going to be a great fireside, so please come! If you are worried about finding a babysitter, the young women of our ward are willing to help out!!
Our food storage specialists are working hard to get us all prepared. Please contact Gina Hansen or anyone else who is on the commitee if you have any questions or even suggestions regarding food storage.

Our lesson this week was from the "Teachings of Presidents of the Church." It was chapter 40, "How Glorious Are Faithful, Just and True Friends."
What a great reminder to us that friendship is one of the grand fundamental pinciples of the gospel. Joseph Smith shares a bold vision of friendship's power to unify the church, end contention, and promote unity among people.
In Matthew chapter 9, it reads: "Now it happened, as Jesus sat at the table in the house, that behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Him and His disciples. And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to His disciples, "Why does your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?" When Jesus heard that, He said to them, "Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. Bug go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy and not sacrafice.'
We must always remember that friendship requires a kind of reaching out that may not always be self-serving.
Jesus was a perfect example of that! He spent his lifetime reaching out to those who were grieving, hurting, rejoicing, and even hoping.
Each sister can make a difference by recoginzing that each of us can make another sisters burden lighter by sharing our burdens with others. We may not know what each sister may be going through but we should show sensitivity to the struggles that each sister is going through.