Stake Women's Conference

We had our Stake Women's Conference last night and our little women's singing group sang. We started singing this song months ago not knowing really where we would perform it. And last night we did. There are seven women and there were seven parts. Acapella. I was the top most part the entire time. The melody. I also sang a duet with my friend Andrea in the middle of the song. Its a very sweet and beautiful song. I think after all that practicing and time we had put into, I started to actually feel like I was understanding the song during our practice before the performance and I was getting a little emotional. The words are wonderful. If you care to listen, read the words along with it below the video. (This isn't the best recording since it was taken with a small digital camera)

How Can I Keep From Singing?
My Life flows on in endless song,
above earths lamentations.
I hear the real though far off hymn,
that hails a new creation.
Through all the tumult and the strife,
I hear the music ringing.
It sounds an echo in my soul,
How can I keep from singing?
2nd verse

What if my joy and comforts die?
The Lord and Savior liveth.
What tho the darkness gather round,
songs in the night He giveth.
No storm can shake my inmost calm
while to the refuge clinging.
Since Christ is Lord of heaven and earth,
How can I keep from singing?
3rd verse
I lift mine eyes, the clouds grow thin,
I see the blue above it.
And day by day the pathway smooths,
since first I learned to love it.
The piece of Christ makes fresh my heart,
a fountain ever springing.
All things are mine since I am His,
How can I keep from singing?
How can I keep from singing?

Relief Society December Activity

I posted before that I am on my wards Relief Society Committee and I was in charge of the invitations for our activity coming up in December. And here is the final invitation!

 

I am also in charge of the little gift that will be given to the women at the party. I came up with this:

 They will have either a white, red, or green ribbon tied around them with a Christmas saying or theme attached to them. I still need to come up with one. I want a saying that has something to do with Christmas obviously and also that has something to do with a candle or light.

Relief Society Activity Invites

I am on the our Relief Society Committee in our ward and so at our meeting on Tuesday we were discussing our upcoming activity on Dec 7th. I was put in charge of making the invitations and I made up this number here:

This is the rough draft and at our meeting we changed and added some words. But it was the easiest thing to make. I just found a Blogspot background I liked that was Christmas looking and then added the rest myself on Power Point and saved it as a JPEG. Costco prints jpg's for about 15 - 20 cents each so I will spend about $15 bucks on the whole project. So easy and inexpensive and I think they look great.