Relief Society Retreat

We had a fun Relief Society retreat this past weekend. They rented a beach house for us to go spend the weekend at. We had many different activities going on. One that is pictured here is making candles. We melted bees wax and dipped our own candles. The Sister in the blue with the scarf is our wonderful Relief Society President, Sister RuthAnn Robert who organized this whole fabulous weekend. She also is a great friend! She comes over to our house quite often and just watches my kids, so Ken and I can go out or just hangs out with all of us. She is an amazing woman whom I just adore!

Here is some of the Sisters with their finished candles. We dipped the string in so that you had the two ends covered in wax and the middle of the string uncovered so you could hold onto it. Then we took the two waxed ends and twisted them together. It was to symbolize us and Christ becoming one and that together we were stronger and could accomplish so much more if we were as one.

We just had so much fun visiting, munching on various snacks, and making crafts all night long. And I'm serious about the ALL NIGHT LONG part! I didn't go to sleep that night. We were having too much fun.

This is Melanie, Crystal, and Terri making coasters for one of our crafts. We had such a fun time just getting to know each other better and laughing and having a good time. We have a great bunch of women here in our ward!!