June 2024 Pontiac Newsletter

Pray, He is There

When Jesus was on the earth, He taught us to pray, saying: “Ask, and ye shall receive.” (Matthew 7:7) Sister Susan H Porter, General Primary President explained, “When you know that Heavenly Father is real and that He loves you, you can live with courage and hope.

She encourages us to:

1.  Pray to Know – to know that God really is there and cares. She suggested that often the best question to ask Heavenly Father is not Why, but What. Heavenly Father will guide you when you ask Him what you can do and what you can learn.
2.  Pray to Grow – Heavenly Father wants to help you grow. He sent His son, Jesus Christ, to show us the way to live. Jesus Christ suffered, died, and was resurrected so we can be forgiven of our sins and grow to become more like Him. Do you want to grow in patience or honesty? Do you want to grow in a skill? Pray, He is there. Through His Spirit, your heart can change, and you can receive strength.
3. Pray to Show – You can pray for help to show Heavenly Father’s love to others. Heavenly Father will help you notice someone who is sad so you can comfort them. He can help you show His love by forgiving someone. He can give you courage to serve someone.

Sister Porter invites us to pray to know Heavenly Father is there, pray to grow to become like Him, and pray to show His love to others. Pray, He is there!

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“We need to evaluate our lives, repent, and keep on trying. If we don’t try, we’re just latter-day sinners; if we don’t persevere, we’re latter-day quitters; and if we don’t allow others to try, we’re just latter-day hypocrites. As we try, persevere, and help others to do the same, we are true Latter-day Saints. As we change, we will find that God indeed cares a lot more about who we are and about who we are becoming than about who we once were.” Elder Dale G. Renlund

 June 2024 Calendar

Sunday Sacrament Meeting in Pontiac: 

·       Sunday Noon broadcast of the Rochester Ward sacrament meeting at 100 Chippewa Rd in Pontiac.

Soup & Scriptures in Pontiac:

·       Every Wednesday at 6:30 pm at 100 Chippewa Rd in Pontiac. Join us for soup and an opportunity to participate in scripture study led by the missionaries. Come, be fed both physically and spiritually.

 

Lake Orion Ward - at 1610 Brewster Road in Rochester Hills

·       Sunday Sacrament Meeting - 9 am Sunday mornings.

·       Lake Orion Ward Youth Fundraiser – 4 to 6 pm Saturday, June 1^st at 1610 Brewster Road Ward building - $10 car wash and baked good sale.

 

Rochester Ward - at 1610 Brewster Road in Rochester Hills 

·       Sunday Sacrament Meeting – Sunday noon.

·       Relief Society Activity - 7pm June 13^th – meet 7 pm at 2800 Hamlin Rd, Rochester Hills to walk in Innovations Hill Park.

·       Rochester Ward Temple Day – June 22 at the Detroit Michigan Temple/Bloomfield Hills Stake Center. Noon – lunch, 1:30 pm baptisms and 1:30 pm Initiatories and sealings

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We welcome you and look forward to worshiping and growing together with you.  "If you expect to find perfect people here, you will be disappointed.  But if you seek the pure doctrine of Christ, the word of God 'which healeth the wounded soul', and the sanctifying influence of the Holy Ghost, then here you will find them.  In this age of waning faith—in this age when so many feel distanced from heaven’s embrace—here you will find a people who yearn to know and draw closer to their Savior by serving God and fellowmen, just like you. Come, join with us!” - Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf

 

The Oldest Sibling - If Only for a Day!

 

The photo above is of me and my three sisters feeding bummer lambs that were given to us. While it may look like my sisters are all older than me, I would like to point out that it all DEPENDS on the situation. Just because Irene was born 12 years, Clara 10 years, and Norma 4 years before me does not mean that I will never be older than them.

They are constantly telling me about what I have to look forward to in another 4, 10, and 12 years - like the joy of increasing or constant pain, having mobility and leg problems, and the ever popular memory issues. They have definitely convinced me that our father was using hyperbole when he quoted Robert Browning's "Come grow old with me! The best is yet to be. The last of life, for which the first was made."

But not today! Today, I am older than them because I had Cystoscopy Bilateral RP, Ureteroscopy  surgery with laser. As I lay in bed wearing DEPENDS, with a stint in my urethra without control of my bladder and painfully discharging blood as I urinate, it dawned on me that who is oldest really DEPENDS on the situation. Today it is me - I'm the oldest. 

Hopefully, this will all change tomorrow and they can once again tell me just how fortunate I am to only be 76 and what I have to look forward to in 4, 10, and 12 years.

You know the picture above really fits with this posting because old age really can be a bummer - DEPENDING on the situation!