Elders and Family,

I want to remind you of doing your Home Teaching this month. I know your home teaching families would appreciate it. Please note the helpful home teaching documents attached. Also there are few other helpful things attached—calendar, basketball schedules, etc.

-Baptisms January 29^th at 5 PM. We are looking for 5 people to fill an assignment. Please let me know if you and your family would be interested in filling this assignment. Thanks!

-The YW have first basketball game on January 26^th at 6:30 PM. They have basketball practice from 4:00 to 5:00 PM every Monday through March. Their schedule will come likely next week as an attachment.

-The Ward Calendar (attached) has several updates to it I am certain that you and your family will find helpful such as- YM & YW Activities, EQ Assignments, Den Meetings, Activity Days, etc. Also this calendar is available at our Sandy Hills Ward Website on LDS.org and will be updated monthly if not sooner. If you have an activity date please let me know and I’ll get it up on the calendar.

Check below for more announcements and lessons to catch up on before Sunday comes.

Here is this week’s bulletin:

Sandy Hills Elders Quorum Goals Reminder:

1. Pray: 3 times daily individually and with your family

2. READ: Read The Book of Mormon daily

3. MEDITATE: Meditate on those things that you read in The Book of Mormon and prayed about. Put something from your reading into practice daily.

4. ATTEND: Attend your Sacrament Meeting, Sunday School, Elders Quorum, and other Ward activities

5. MINISTER: Minister in your calling as a husband, father, home teacher, or other callings you might have

You’ll be blessed! I can promise that—for sure!

Updates/ Spotlights:

Upcoming Events

-EQ Temple Nights We will continue to have them once monthly. Please note these dates. We will do as many ordiances as we can with the idea in mind to do family names and disperse the quorum doing ordnances throughout the temple—including baptisms, initiatory, endowments, and sealings. Please plan to attend with you and your children that can go. If you can let me know in advance if you and your family are going I will have reservations made for all of you and even have plenty of family file names that you can do while there. Please arrive by 6:30 PM at the Draper Temple as the sessions would start at 7:00 PM. Here are the dates:

-March 18^th 7:00 PM

-April 29^th 7:00 PM

-May 19^th Ward Temple Night, 8:20 PM Endowment Session, must arrive by 7:45 PM. (Tentative)

-May 20^th 7:00 PM

Sundays Lesson(s):

-Elders Quorum & Relief Society: More Diligent and Concerned at Home by Elder Bednar

-Sunday School: Lesson 4: Because of My Transgression My Eyes Are Opened

-Young Women: Lesson 4: Seeking the Companionship of the Holy Ghost

-Gospel Essentials: coming soon…

-Nursery: Lesson 4: Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ Love Me

-Junior Primary: Lesson 4: Joseph Smiths Childhood