Dear Ward Family

Dear Ward Family,

   Our hearts are heavy at this time for the Pulsipher family.  Many of your feelings and concerns have been conveyed to the family and they feel of your love and so much appreciate your prayers in their behalf. Thank you for the outpouring of concern they are receiving. We are planning to go forward with our Christmas 100 dress event on Wednesday evening. It will be as planned at 6:00 pm. We will have the presentation of the dresses and then kneel in prayer together with our bishop followed by dinner. We will have some food sign up sheets at our Christmas activity to help with the family dinner, which will be held Friday afternoon after Zach’s service.

   Zach’s funeral will be held on Friday at 11:00 am at our ward building. There will be a viewing on Thursday night from 6:00-8:00 pm at Metcalf Mortuary on St. George Boulevard and Friday morning at 9:30  at the church before the service.

We have canceled our ward Christmas party on Saturday night however, we will have a special ward fast on Monday December 19 and will conclude our fast together as a ward on Monday evening in a special ward family home evening and dinner. For those of you that signed up for food assignments for the Christmas party, please bring those for our Ward Family Night. More details on this ward FHE will be given in our Sunday meetings.

   We express our deepest appreciation to the members of the Stone Cliff Ward who are so companionate and willing to help in many ways. Thank you for the support you are as ward members. We are truly a ward family.

Much Love,

Sister Elizabeth Adams

The Hundred Dresses

On December 14th @ 6:00 we will be having our 100 Dresses Christmas Event.  We are going to be collecting new or gently used dresses for local girls and women of all ages that are in need for Christmas.  Dinner will be served.  It will be held in the NEW CHAPEL ON RUSTIC DRIVE AND RIVER ROAD!!!!

In preparation for this fun activity we have purchased a few copies of 100 Dresses.  This is a fun book to sit down and read with your kids or a quick read on your own.  I sat down and read it with my 6 year old and we were done in about an hour.  If you would like to read this book please contact Brooke Ulrich and she will get a copy for you to read.  Her home number is 272-4386 and her cell is 592-0863.

Holiday Home Tour

Valorie Millar needs more help for the Christmas Home Tour.  She needs hostesses on the 9th
and 10th to come to her house.  Please call her 688-2595.

December Book Group

Book group will be at Joy Kohlers home on December 7th at 7:00.  1583 S. View Point in Stone Cliff.
In addition to reading The Hundred Dresses we will be reading Richard Paul Evans new book
Lost December.

Trunk Or Treat

Join us for our Stone Cliff Ward Trunk or Treat Halloween party.  Friday October 28th from 6-8 pm.  Dinner provided with games and a chili cook-off all in the parking lot of the church house.   Come and decorate your trunks and enjoy some yummy food.

November Book Group

The book we are reading for our Nov. 9th meeting is "The Miracle of Freedom:  Seven Tipping Points That Saved the World" by Chris and Ted Stewart.  We are having it at Chitra Graff's (in the 5th Ward)  3783 S. Mitchell Dr. in Stonehedge.

"How unusual is it, really, in the history of all known human experience, to enjoy the blessing of living free?"
The answer may surprise you. In The Miracle of Freedom, Chris and Ted Stewart make a strong case that fewer than 5 percent of all people who have ever lived on the earth have lived under conditions that we could consider “free.” So where did freedom come from, and how are we fortunate enough to experience it in our day?
“A deeper look at the human record,” write the authors, “reveals a series of critical events, obvious forks in the road leading to very different outcomes, that resulted in this extraordinary period in which we live.” They identify and discuss seven decisive tipping points:

1. The defeat of the Assyrians in their quest to destroy the kingdom of Judah
2. The victory of the Greeks over the Persians at Thermopylae and Salamis
3. Roman Emperor Constantine’s conversion to Christianity
4. The defeat of the armies of Islam at Poitiers
5. The failure of the Mongols in their effort to conquer Europe
6. The discovery of the New World
7. The Battle of Britain in World War II

The journey to freedom has been thousands of years long. Now that it has found its place in the world, the question for those of us who experience its benefits is simply this: Will we work to preserve the miracle of freedom that we enjoy today?

November Cooking Group

Cooking group will meet at Jenny Hansen's (2240 E Cobalt #15) on Nov. 3rd at 7:00.  She will demonstrate how to cook your turkey in a paper bag and the rest of us will bring holiday "SIDE" dishes.

HUMANITARIAN SERVICE

The Church is encouraging us to serve in our local communities, including supporting agencies that serve the poor and needy.  One item that's in short supply at all the shelters in town is body wash (it is much more sanitary than bars of soap).  Let's give those in need a "Fresh Start" by bringing a bottle of body wash to Relief Society this month to donate.  Thanks!