relief society pjs party

last night we had our additional meeting for october: a "pjs party" 

• prayers • journals • scriptures • 

the things you'd do before bed...

the purpose of our evening was to increase a love and desire in our sisters to participate in regular prayer, journalling and scripture study. we had each of our presenters speak on the evening for around 10 minutes (with the exception of blogging, which was 2 minutes following the journal speaker)

sisters arrived dressed in their pjs and were seated in the relief society room then given a journal each to take notes on the evening and then keep using at home. we watched a short clip found on youtube before each speaker introducing the topic, as they spoke on prayer, journals (one sister covered scripture journals, bullet journals and general conference journalling, with another (me!) speaking briefly on keeping an online journal- a blog) and scriptures. 

the speakers were given these pointers to cover during their time:

prayer

-how to to have a good relationship with your father in heaven

-how to feel a greater desire to pray regularly

-perhaps a specific example of how/when you have received an answer to prayer

-how prayer can help us grow stronger as families

journals

-how to feel motivated to make journal entries

-what to write about

-how you feel when you look back on past entries and see how you/your family have changed spiritually (and just in general!)

-how you feel your journals will be to your family and future generations

scriptures

-how to more effectively study the scriptures

-how to feel a greater desire to do so

-how to retain the information you read

-how to grow closer to your heavenly father as you do so

decorations were simple, lots of cushions, quilts and lamps about the place... with desserts to share afterwards, accompanied by fruit infused water and crock pot hot chocolate. 

crock pot hot chocolate

ingredients:

1/2 cup cocoa powder

2 x cans sweetened condensed milk (i always buy the woolworths or coles brand, they are exactly the same)

1/8 teaspoon salt

8 cups water

1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

marshmallows to serve

directions:

1. in crock pot combine, milk, water and vanilla

2. add dry cocoa and salt, stir until smooth

3. cover and cook on high for 2 hours or on low for 4 hours

4. top each serving with marshmallows

water with frozen strawberries and mint leaves

+ water with frozen lemon slices

we were especially thrilled because it's almost summer here and it was cold and raining! perfect for getting around in your pyjamas.

  

as usual there was plenty of food... mormons gonna morm!

our three lovely speakers who did an incredible job (yes we had a bishopric member as a special guest speaker).

we have the best relief society... i feel so lucky to be surrounded by such amazing women ♥