Elders and Family,

I’ve got a couple updates that you should be aware of on members in our ward:

Joe Hatch- Felt that he had a heart attack this morning. He was taken to IMC in Murray for examination yet didn’t have a heart attack yet they have not found the cause of his pain yet. He was admitted to the hospital.

Tim Weiss- Is out of the hospital. He had an angioplasty and is doing well. I spoke to him last evening at the Church and is in good spirits. He is undergoing some exams to determine some issues he may have in his lungs.

LaVar Krantz- Went into surgery today to have the cancer removed from his lungs yet the cancer was too large and they couldn’t remove it.

As you can tell all three of our good friends are in need of our support and prayers. Please keep at the forefront of your thoughts and pray for the blessings they and their families stand in need of.

Attached to this email are:

-April 2010 Sandy Hills Ward Calendar

-April 2010 Home Teaching Helps for Kids

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!

Home Teaching and Visiting Teaching Message:

Home Teaching A Great Work of God by President Uchtdorf

Don’t forget to use the Home Teaching Helps for kids (see attached)

Visiting Teaching Seeking and Receiving Personal Revelation

Reminders, Upcoming Events and Service Projects

-April 17^th Provident Living Workshop: Gardening – This will be on how to vegetable, flower, and pot garden. You are SMART if you come to this one. It’s a winner.

-May 1^st Young Womens Spaghetti Fund Raising Dinner- For a fund raiser this year the YW are doing a fund raiser. The dinner will be one where you and your family can come and purchase tickets for your meals with suggested meal prices. This will be a great way to enjoy a good meal on a Friday night and help support our great Young Women in our ward!

- Stake Book of Mormon Challenge: In our Stake Priesthood Meeting we, as a priesthood body, were challenged to read The Book of Mormon by July 13^th alongside the young men in the stake as they prepare for Camp Helaman. Please take note of this challenge!

-May 15^th is a Day of Celebration sponsored by our Stake. We will be commemorating and celebrating the railroad that went through our area with the granate rocks that built the Salt Lake Temple. It will be filled with activities, breakfast, a parade for the young kids (to dress up like pioneers and or railway men), and also we will be building humanitarian kits for those that stand in need. Our ward has a specific assignment to collect hand towels. These can be brought to me or to the Tello’s house. We need 500 of them donated for the whole ward. Please if you wouldn’t mind that would be amazing!

-EQ Temple Nights We will continue to have them once monthly. Please note these dates. We will do as many ordinances 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:

-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

2010 EQ Family Focus: This year the Elders Quorum Presidency will be emphasizing Family Home Evening, Fathers Interviews, and Family Councils. We will be having some activities and visits that center around these with you and your family. I’d like to know if you and your family have the Church’s Family Home Evening Manual? Please let me know. I may just grab some for our quorum to give out. Here is a good site for you to review for FHE suggestions:

http://www.lds.org/hf/fhe/welcome/0,16785,4210-1,00.html

Sundays Lesson(s):

-Elders Quorum & Relief Society: Chapter 8: Praying to Our Heavenly Father

-Sunday School: Lesson 14: “Ye Shall Be a Peculiar Treasure Unto Me”

-Young Women: Lesson 14: The Blessings of the Temple

-Gospel Essentials:….

-Nursery: Lesson 14: My Family Can Be Together Forever

-Junior Primary: Lesson 14: The Word of Wisdom