July 2009 Newsletter

June Lessons
July 5 RS Presidency/Group Leadership Karen Brown
July 12 Joseph Smith #33 The Spiritual Gifts of Healing, Tongues, Prophecy, and Discerning of Spirits Myrna Clark
July 19 Joseph Smith #34 The Power of Forgiving Ramona Ford
July 26 Teaching for our Times General Talk from April 2009 talk President Henry B. Eyring, “Man Down!” Judy Paxton

The Lady of the Month
This month we are spotlighting Sister ¬¬Jeanine Hedin. She and her family have been an integral part of this ward for a very long time – long before it was the Springview Ward. Her story is fascinating and I want to thank her for it.

Ancestor of the Month
This month I chose my paternal grandmother’s maternal grandfather Robert Wilson Glenn and his family.

Stake Conference
I asked if anyone had some thoughts or comments concerning our Stake Conference that they would be willing to share. Two sisters graciously took me up on that offer.
Sister Ellen Clift noted that the conference renewed a feeling that she needed to start going to the Temple more often.
Sister Sandy Levinson said “I really enjoyed Bro. Auman’s [talk]’ the Scary Book’, and it made me think maybe it isn't such a scary experience and I should try it. How else will the Book of Mormon get out there? When my brother was on his mission, he left his scriptures in a taxi that he and his companion had taken in Buenos Aires. It was upsetting to have to replace them but then who knows who ended up with them. We later learned of a friend in Czechoslovakia who had found a copy of the Book of Mormon in a similar manner and this was before the end of communism in that country.”


Book Club
Our book club is alive and well and being enjoyed by several sisters in the ward. Sister Linda Owen commented “I would like to say a few words about book club. It is a great way of visiting with the sisters and getting their take on a book that we have all read, and finding out different aspects and thoughts on the book that may not have been considered by my own self. We usually keep it down to an hour discussion so it does not last all evening, and we pretty much stick to the subject. I have enjoyed getting to know and talk to the sisters that I don't always get to talk to at church. It is a pleasant way to spend an hour once a month. I love to read all sorts of things and now I get a chance to discuss in depth some of our favorite reads. I hope that we can keep it going.”

July Recipe
A couple of quick fun cake fixer uppers. There are a couple of tricks to turn any cake into a flag cake. For the white background you can use any white frosting, although at least one recipe recommended Fluffy Boiled frosting. You can also use cool whip or other whipped topping. For the blue stars and red stripes by cutting strawberries in half and lining them up and lining up blueberries in a square in the corner. Other variations include using candy.
In place of strawberries for the stripes you can use:
red licorice; Twizzlers or the shoe string kind, red gum drops, red fruit roll-ups, red gummies; gummie bears, fruit chews etc.
In place of the blueberries you can use:
Blue M&M's, Blue Skittles, Blue Kisses
Also, instead of using white frosting with blue stars this can be reversed with a little blue food coloring in the frosting then using miniature marshmellows for the stars.
Also just separate the frosting into red, white and blue and using decorator tips to create the stars and stripes.

There’s also a recipe that called for pound cake, jello strawberries, blueberries and cool whip
http://www.kraftfoods.com/kf/recipes/wave-your-flag-cake-50205.aspx