Relief Society Women's Conference

On Saturday March 20 the Milwaukee South Stake had a Women's Conference. I was asked to speak at the conference and teach two 45 minute classes. They offered three classes and the sisters in our stake were able to choose 2 classes out of three. My talk was on the book I Hate It When Exercise Is the Answer by Emily Watts. The book gave 31 ideas for how to exercise your soul. Emily Watts is a very witty writer and I totally enjoyed reading her book, trying to build a talk around it was a little more difficult. I decided to do a power point showing pictures of a few of the stories that explained how the author came up with the spiritual exercise. I narrowed the exercises down to share only 9 and if I didn't have enough time I could end where ever I was in the presentation. After I finished the power point I felt inspired to make this a hands on lesson. so I went shopping for some cute cards and paper so we could do the exercises as we went through the presentation. I purchased some 6x8 white envelopes and printed the title of the book on the front of them. Inside I put a pen 2 cards and envelopes, some pretty post-its tow write on and two homemade magnet that said Compassion, and Creativity. I made 150 envelopes and there was about 10 left over. So I guess I had about 140 sisters come to my presentation and several told me I did a good job. It was a lot of fun for me and I learned so much I hope that the sisters left feeling uplifted and ready to try something to enlarge their soul