Recipe from Noelle Mower

Pumpkin Crème Pies

These are kind of like Oatmeal Crème Pies. They are perfect for this time of year and are DELICIOUS! You could make them and give some away to your neighbors and count it as hours of service!
Creme Pies
• 3 cups All-purpose Flour
• 1 cup Brown Sugar
• 1 cup Sugar
• 1 can Pumpkin (15 Oz.)
• 1 cup Unsweetened Applesauce
• 2 whole Eggs
• 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
• 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
• 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
• 1 Tablespoon Cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon Pumpkin Pie Spice
• ½ teaspoons Salt
Cream Cheese Filling
• 1 package Cream Cheese Softened (8 Oz.)
• ½ stick Unsalted Butter, Room Temperature
• 3 ½ cups Powdered Sugar
• ½ teaspoon Vanilla Extract

Preparation Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Creme Pies: Beat together brown sugar, sugar, oil and pumpkin. Add eggs one at time, mixing well after each addition, followed by the vanilla. In a separate bowl, mix together the dry ingredients. Slowly incorporate the dry ingredients into the wet until just combined.
Using a pastry bag with a round tip, or a big zip top plastic bag with one corner snipped, squeeze out concentric circles of batter, starting from the middle and working outward. Bake for 11 minutes, or until firm, and cool on a rack.
Cream Cheese Filling: Beat together cream cheese and butter. Add powdered sugar, and vanilla. Frost flat side of half the pies and top with another piece.
Enjoy right away, or chill overnight. These keep very nicely in the fridge for at least a few days.

Message from Ethney

Hello Sisters!
This month we are also lucky to have our Stake Fill the Temple on Nov 20 & 21st. This is where everyone in the stake that is able tries to attend the various temple works as much and as often as they are able. This is a great opportunity to do initiatory work, sealings and baptisms to tag along with the usual session. There is no better way to be a disciple of Christ than to serve those who are anxiously awaiting for their temple work to be done.
These past 2 years, Mike & I have had the opportunity to work on my 7th great aunt & uncles family. We started each of them just after they had their baptisms done by my cousins. It was amazing to have us each going to the temple with another name, to do their initiatory work, then their endowments and then to seal them all together as a family at our last Fill the Temple. It was such a special time and brought a bit more meaning to each temple visit. As we continue to look for opportunities to serve those close to us and in our communities during our 12 Hours of Service, I would like to quote President Monson from his What Have I Done for Someone Today? given in October's General Conference. He says, "The Savior taught His disciples, "For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it." Pres. Monson goes on to say, "I believe the Savior is telling us that unless we lose ourselves in service to others, there is little purpose to our own lives." I hope as we come to next week and the 20 & 21st we will remember how much purpose service brings to our lives and make our best effort to do all that we can. I have a testimony of attending the temple often and regularly, I know Heavenly Father is no near to me and speaks to my mind and heart. As I serve his children, he blesses me with answers to concerns or questions. I am grateful to have a temple so close. I say this in the Name of My Savior, Jesus Christ, Amen

Volunteer Opportunities

Dear volunteers,

We have some MARVELOUS opportunities for you!

FOOD PROCESSING

APPLESAUCE - We will be canning applesauce Wednesday, December 9th and Thursday, December 17th, in three shifts per day, with at least 20 volunteers per shift. 36,000 pounds of Granny Smith apples donated by a California orchard, along with a donation from Amalgamated Sugar, and a generous donation of cans, lids and facility by the LDS church will allow us to can applesauce in great quantities. But we need you!

Each shift will begin with a 30-minute orientation. Volunteers will then suit up in aprons, hair & beard nets, gloves and earplugs. Some will help cut the blossom end out of the apples, and others will help fill the kettles and cans and tend the equipment. Stools are available for those who have trouble standing for a long time.

This all takes place at the LDS Garden City Cannery, 604 E. 46th St. Garden City 83714. Volunteers should be age 16+. Photography is only allowed outside the building, smoking is only allowed in a designated smoking area north of the parking

Please let me know what shift(s) will work for you: 9:00 am-1:00 pm, 12:30-4:30 pm and 4:00-8:00 pm.



POWDERED MILK - If those shifts don’t work for you, or you would like something a little different, a new and very flexible volunteer opportunity is now available – also at the Cannery - repacking powdered milk in the dry-pack canning area at the same facility; funding has been made available to pack 90,000 pounds - about 20,000 cans. It can be during the cannery shifts above or during regular dry-pack hours. You choose your hours. Here’s what the cannery manager says:

“Our dry pack hours are Mon and Fri 9 to 3. Tues, Wed, Thurs 9 to 6. Sat 9 to 12. We also can schedule appointments for Tues, Wed, or Thurs 6 to 8 pm. People are free to walk in anytime during those hours to do dry pack canning. The maximum we can handle is 12 people at a given time. There are no set shift times. As of today we only have three groups with reservations between now and Dec. 18th: Sat Nov 21, Tues pm Dec 1, and Thurs pm Dec 3 have been reserved. “

If you want to come in the evening, contact the cannery directly to make sure there’s room, as there are sometimes groups that schedule: 208-375-7893. If you’d like to come during the day, grab a friend or two and come on down. They said it’s usually pretty slow. Just tell them when you call or visit that you want to repack for the Foodbank. They’ll show you just what to do.



WAREHOUSE – Individuals and smaller groups up to 20-25 people are welcome to help sort or repack donated food. Afternoon shifts are available 3:30-5:30 on the following days as of this writing: 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 16, 17, 29, 30, 31. This information is subject to change. All our December evenings and weekends are full. All of November is full. While we don’t serve holiday meals, many of our 227 partner agencies do so. You are welcome to contact the pantries listed on our website. Here’s the list of Treasure Valley pantries: http://www.idahofoodbank.org/PDF%20Files/Treasure-Valley-Pantry-List.pdf



EVENTS

HYMNS OF THANKSGIVING – This lovely event, a moving celebration of the Thanksgiving holiday, is coming up Sunday, November 22 at 7:30 pm in the Qwest Arena. No tickets are required, thanks to sponsors. Everyone is invited. Guests will be invited to make a monetary donation to the Foodbank, and many of them do. We will need some volunteers to assist in distributing programs before the event and collecting donations afterward. It’s very easy to do, especially if you are planning to go anyway. Plan on being there at 6:15 pm (doors open at 6:30) and staying until about 9:30 or 10pm. Volunteers should dress as ambassadors of the Foodbank, business casual or better.

EMPTY BOWLS – all the bowls are about in, thanks to generous volunteers and donors - and we are gearing up for the best Empty Bowls event ever! Plan to come down to the Boise Centre on the Grove to check out the thousands of bowls (buy!) Our volunteer schedule is filled at this time, but there will be hot soup and bowls aplenty 11 am – 5 pm.

SANTA SORT will not be held this year. Since it came at such a busy, stressful time, and required a lot of staff, we decided to retire it in favor of opening up weekday afternoon shifts, which have proved very successful in getting work done!















Cindy Hale

Coordinator of Volunteer Services

3562 South TK Ave.

PO Box 5601

Boise, Idaho 83705

PH: (208) 336-9643 ext. 236

FX: (208) 336-9692

http://ifbvol.wordpress.com/

Check out volunteer opportunities

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Service Opportunities

Dear Sisters,

I just thought this might be helpful to our relief society as we embark on our service challenge. The website is a government website that is very helpful in locating ways to serve in the community. It is super user friendly. All you have to do is type in your location and interests and it will search for a match.

http://www.serve.gov/


Here are some ideas I found by typing in "women" + my zip code:

Women on the Run

coaching and cheering on lead girls through work outs and being healthy and building self esteem. I think this would be great for our sports and fitness savvy sisters,

http://volunteer.united-e-way.org/uwtv/org/opp/1932341.html

Boise Rescue Mission

I personally really want to help out with the City Light Home for Women and Children. I am going to email the coordinators and perhaps we can arrange something for a group of us sisters to do. The receptionist said they are super swamped this time of year though, so I'm not sure if we'd be able to be fit in during our goal time frame but I am still going to contact them and see. PLEASE NOTE: the contact info on the webpage is outdated. The number reaches a receptionist but to contact the coordinators you need to go to boiserm.org and click on the "get involved" tab.

http://www.idealist.org/if/i/en/av/VolunteerOpportunity/92600-243/c

Personal Shopper for Interviews

This is more of a long term commitment and is during the day in the middle of the week so I know a lot of us wouldn't be able to do it. But I think it would be very rewarding if there was a sister who could! Its helping women shop, do hair and makeup and prepare for interviews.

http://volunteer.united-e-way.org/uwtv/org/opp/13159885.html

Donating Laundry Needs to Emergency Housing Shelter

http://volunteer.united-e-way.org/uwtv/org/opp/10235094360.html

I thought this is something we could definitely do as a relief society. I personally coupon shop and have recently purchased TONS of extra laundry stuff for long term storage but I think this would be a very good cause to use it for. It would be very doable project for us as a RS to each bring one or two items and then I would be willing to handle the delivery of it. This would be an easy way for sisters to get our service hours in.


Just a few ideas. I hope I'm not overstepping my boundaries here, just wanted to help out! :)


Also, if you wanted to you could add my blog address to the RS Blog: samandlivi.blogspot.com


Thanks,


Livi :)

Opportunities for Service

Opportunities for Service

This week I have been researching opportunities in our community that you sisters might like to get involved in. As I looked I found things that actually made me think of specific sisters in our ward who would be good fits for these services. One of the goals we have is to make service a habit and getting involved with an organization that provides a service related to your career field or one of your hobbies is a great way to do that. Volunteer service looks great on a resume, for internship applications and for for future jobs. It is one of the reasons I was successful in getting into graduate school. So that is a perk, however, when you choose a service opportunity that is related to an area of interest you already have, the service can be even more enjoyable.

United Way in the treasure valley has lots of service opportunities, fitting a variety of schedules. Click here to check it out. You just punch in your zip code and it will bring up opportunities in your area. These range from needs for bilingual musicians to people needed to tear down computers.

Another great service opportunity is with the Special Olympics. I will be getting involved in the organization this fall. This is their website. You need to fill out the volunteer application and they will email you back really quickly and let you know how to proceed.

Other organizations I have been involved with and had good experiences with are the Garden City Community Clinic (a free health clinic for the poor and uninsured), the Girl Scouts Visions Program (providing mentoring to 4th and 5th grade girls at low-income elementary schools--email Brooke Green bgreen@girlscouts-ssc.org to see how you can help), and the VA Hospital (lots of opportunities here from transporting patients to helping out in the ER).

Whatever route you take, make an effort to get involved and make a difference for someone else. Remember that time spent on your calling, serving family and friends and doing your visiting teaching counts too. How ever you do it, just get busy serving!!!

Love,
Michelle

Updates

Hello Everyone!! Make sure you check out the announcements above and the three new posts below!
Thanks
Laura

Updates

Hello Everyone!! Make sure you check out the announcements above and the three new posts below!
Thanks
Laura

A Call For Pictures!!!

Hello!!

The activities committee will be putting together an end-of-year slide show of all the events that we've had in our ward for the past year. It doesn't necessarily have to be specifically pictures from the ward activities hosted by the activities committee, but they can be pictures from RS, EQ, or other eventful activities we had as a ward. If you could please email them to myself or a member in the activities committee by the NOVEMBER 30th it would be very greatly appreciated! If you are unable to email the pictures and you either have a blog or a website we can copy pictures from, do let us know as well. I can also bring my laptop to church or school for those who find it easier to download the pictures directly to our laptop.

We will occasionally send out reminder emails regarding this matter. Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns. Have an awesome week!!

Take care,

BIU 4th Ward Activities Committee

A Message from the RS Presidency

Tune into Christ

Join us in our challenge to tune into Christ in preparation for the Christmas season during November and December. Our challenge to you and ourselves is to identify our distractions that keep us from doing the things that are most important and reduce the time we are spending on those distractions or eliminate them from our lives.

To help us track our progress we have extended the challenge for every RS sister to do 12 hours of service during the months of November and December. We will be helping you come up with opportunities to do service throughout the time period, but we also want you to focus on temple service, visiting teaching and serving your family, friends and neighbors. Service in the church doing your calling counts too!

Each week we will pass around a clip board where you can mark your number of hours of service for that week so keep track and be ready to mark every Sunday. We have about 75 sisters in our RS so that mean we need 900 hours of service to reach our goal. 12 hours is the minimum that we are asking you to do so please go above and beyond if at all possible.

As a part of this challenge we are using the talk by President Monson "What have I done for someone today?", so please study this talk and share it with those you visit.

Good luck and happy serving!!!

Your RS Presidency,
Michelle, Ethney, Noelle and Jessica

Message from Michelle

Wheat Grinder Available for Use at the Stake Center

We wanted to remind each of you that the stake has purchased a wheat grinder for anyone in the stake to use whenever the desire arises. It is kept in a box in the cupboards over by the sink in the stake building kitchen. Sister Sasser typed up instructions on how to use it. If you want to experiment with baking with wheat, or make any of the recipes Sister Renae Corn demonstrated awhile back, it is available anytime the building is open. Sister Smith said today there is also some wheat over there for your use. If you are unsure about it, or if you would like company, please contact anyone in the Stake Relief Society and we will be glad to help. We only ask that you take the time to clean it thoroughly after each use, so we don't have a problem with weevil.

Love,
Your Stake RS