Don't want to be...alllll byyyy myyyyyself....

This week for institute, in the cosy location of the nursery room with the smell of KFC still lingering, we had a well prepared lesson by Alex primarily from the book of Jeremiah. Amongst the things discussed were forordination, patriarchal blessings and that Heavenly Father never leaves us alone...as in, he won't forget about us and leave us without his love and help! Thanks Alex for a great lesson and for bringing the spirit so well. The loyal Rosnyites present (who made up almost half of the YSA there) were Fiona, Libby, Rachel, Tyler and Mari-Anna.

Celestial transmitters and receivers

On Sunday night YSA from the stake gathered to the foreign land of the Eastern Shore (gasp!!) at Rosny Chapel to attend the Rosny-hosted stake fireside. Presented by our favouritest Sunday School teacher and geocacher, Colin Chick, we knew that it would be a great evening. He began by explaining to us about the art of geocaching, with the use of a GPS and we went outside and gave it a go, eventually finding the hidden box. He also had us experiment with our mobile phone reception at different locations around the building. These object lessons were likened to our communication with Heavenly Father, how we need to be in the right place physically, spiritually or emotionally to receive transmissions or answers to our prayers. We were given great insights into presenting our question in prayer correctly, for example not expecting to get a 'burning in the bosom' answer from a multiple choice question. I can barely do justice to the fireside from my summary, but be assured it benefitted many of us! Representing Rosny ward were Erin (aka Shazza), Fiona (aka Trev), Tyler, Scott, Jason, Libby, Rachel, Emily and Mari-Anna.

Faith Is Like A Little Seed...or is it?

Our lesson this Sunday was from Alma 32, and was of course on faith. The diagram of city of Zarahemla was cleverly disguised to look like a seed, representing the seed spoken of by Alma to the poor of the Zoramites. Emily pointed out that Alma 32:28 is different from the primary song which says faith is like a little seed; in this verse it is the word that is likened to a seed. Remembering that a seed, if not planted, will remain a dormant seed and will not grow or progress, we must plant the word in our hearts and nourish it if we want it to grow into a testimony. As we begin to see results from the planting and nourishment of the seed, our testimony begins to grow and we become more sure of it. Sometimes the growth is so gradual we don't notice it until we look back and realise how much it has grown.

We also had an exciting annoucement from Tyler, who received his mission call on Friday to the Halifax Canada Mission, French Speaking. He leaves mid-October. Congratulations Tyler!