Kaneohe 1st Ward Elders Quorum: Kaneohe 1st Ward, Church Today, 3/10/13

Sacrament Meeting

Presiding & Conducting: Bishop Bert Oshiro
Opening hymn: #239 "Choose the Right" (chorister Van Wai Sr, organist Isabella Lesa)
Invocation: Brother Kanoa Kanahele
Sacrament hymn: #178 "O Lord of Hosts"
Sacrament administration by Priesthood
Youth Speaker:

Sister Lelei Stanley spoke about divine nature and individual worth. "Because I am a child of God, I should never settle for less," she said.

Spencer Christian

Sister Stevette Santiago gave an update on her son Elder Braeden Santiago, who is serving a mission in the Tacloban, Phillipines Mission.
Brother Spencer Christian spoke about how we should strive to live a balanced life. He quoted Elder Dallin H. Oaks, who advocated "a steady, tranquil dedication [to] gospel living [which] means living the gospel by becoming a 100-percent Latter-day Saint 100 percent of the time [instead of having] an intense focus on goals [which] can cause a person to forget the importance of righteous means."

Emergency Prep Workshop, 3/16 Sat. 8 a.m. to 11 a.m., all are invited to attend;
Family Fireside. Proposed for Friday April 5 at Church (pending building availability)
Teacher Improvement Workshop, 3/23 Saturday, 8:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.

"Will you?" challenges from the Hawaii Mission President: Will you pray for the success of missionary work in our stake? Will you identify and invite someone to be taught by the missionaries?

Home teaching. District Leaders (Turner, Sellers, Tamashiro) will be contacting home teachers for reports on home teaching assignments for March. Goal is 100%
Quorum members are asked to participate in team-ups with full-time missionaries on Wednesday evenings from 7pm to 830pm. Sign up sheet was circulated.
Quorum members are asked to offer prayers at Sacrament meetings in March. Sign up sheet was circulate.
Adopt-a-highway service project. 3/9 Saturday.Mission accomplished. Mahalo to participants.
Chapel Clean-up duty for the quorum is on 3/16 Saturday, 7a.m.

The lesson in the quorum today was presented by President Dayle Turner and was based on Chapter Five of the TPOFC--Lorenzo Snow: The Grand Destiny of the Faithful.

President Snow said," As man now is, God once was: as God now is, man may be," and "God...has bestowed upon us the capacity for infinite wisdom and knowledge, because He has given us a portion of Himself."