2025 Ward Theme:  
ANCHOR YOURSELF TO THE LORD

UPCOMING ACTIVITIES

April 8th - Gift (of Service) Exchange  & swap table 

Ideas We've Seen:

Ride to/from the airport 

2 hours of housecleaning/ yard work/ organizing

Family Photo Session 

Haircut 

Babysitting- an evening or Saturday daytime

Made-to-order crocheted (fill in the blank)

16oz of our own local honey

Four quarts of soup

French or Singing or ??? Lesson

Personalized wood sign

Clean out your fridge!

Special Occasion Cake

Custom Birthday Invitations & Decorations

Authentic Mexican Enchiladas

Homemade pie: (lemon meringue or pumpkin)

Homemade strawberry ice cream

Mint brownies

Homemade Bread (bread-making class optional)

Resume review or job interview prep session

Frozen cookie dough

Lunch date at (fill in the place)

A flower arrangement

Home made pizza



April 13th - Stake Easter Sing-Along

May 11th - Mother's Day Brunch during Relief Society

Lesson Schedule

Apr 13th - "Welcome to the Church of Joy" by Patrick Kearon


Note: You can find links to the lessons if you Open the Gospel library app and select the home page. Scroll down until you find the tile labeled Relief Society Lesson  with the date.

Upcoming Birthdays 


Katja Zarco

Lawanna Parker

Brittany Watterson

Janise Owens

Deana Perantoni

Ruth Harding



Keep Christ with us this Easter Season (Counsel Topic March 23rd)

Books:

God So Loved the World: The Final Days of the Savior's Life by Eric D. Huntsman

Kid & Family Traditions:

Easter story in eggs - one version here or a simpler one here

Living Christ 30 day Countdown - click here

Bunny Day on Saturday - Christ on Sunday

Read Easter books & Easter conference talks as a family

Have a sunrise devotional outside (wrapped in blankets) where you read from the scriptures about finding the tomb empty and then Jesus appearing

Easter Holy Week tradition with poster & artwork https://www.melanieburk.com/shop/p/easterholyweek

Food:

Resurrection Rolls

Serve a Passover meal

Decorations:

Wooden Hill Tomb - like Nicole's contact Jessica Nelson from 6th ward - her kids make them and sell for $35 - Deseret book has other sets.

Leave Christmas nativities out until Easter 

Consider decorating with lambs (instead of bunnies and chicks)

Deseret Book has some beautiful Easter art


Missionary Info

Want to feed our wonderful missionaries?

The missionaries serving in our ward pass around a calendar during the 2nd hour of church.  If you don't have a chance to sign up, please call or text them at (916) 347-2338  or sign up HERE



Rich Pettingill has created a spreadsheet where you can sign up to attend a lesson with the missionaries in our ward. List your available times HERE.


Rich would also like people to contact him if they would like to be included on the ward missionary emails. Contact him at rich.pettingill@pge.com.



2024 Cooking Panel Recipe Book - Click here!    

This is Jeri's favorite Sourdough video  and her Sourdough handout

2025 Favorite Podcasts - 

Click here to view a slideshow of our favorite podcasts from our January 2025 activity


Relief Society Presidency

Marissa Johnson

President

Nicole Heiney

1st Counselor

    Suzy Hales

2nd Counselor

Melody Nartker

Secretary

To contact a Presidency Member please use the Ward Directory

You can also email folsom3reliefsociety@gmail.com

Folsom Stake Website 

The Stake has a new website: www.folsomstake.org  Take a moment to bookmark it, as it will be used for: