Riverton Farms

Riverton Farms Ward Bulletin

August 17, 2025

Sacrament Meeting

Conducting………… Brother Paul Skolmoski

Opening Hymn……………….#274 The Iron Rod

Opening Prayer………….Britney Wilkinson

Ward/Stake Business

Sacrament Hymn……………..#195 How Great the Wisdom and the Love

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Speaker………….Jeanette Hughes

Musical Number by Benji Lambson, Dave Graham, Jaren Nielsen, and Josh Monson

Speaker………….Brother Jeffrey McMillan, Stake High Council

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Closing Hymn………….#141 Jesus, the Very Thought of Thee

Closing Prayer……..……Paul Wilkinson

Ward News and Announcements

• Monthly Ward Prayer: Each Fast Sunday, five minutes after the block, we will gather in the cultural hall as a ward to pray.
• Temple Recommend Interviews right after the block each Sunday by the clerk's office.

• The Stake Presidency holds Temple Recommend Interviews the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Sundays from 3 pm - 4 pm

• Ward temple nights every 2nd Wednesday. Please reserve your session for the 6:00 am or 6:30 pm endowment session.
• Neighborhood Fall Festival, October 18th at 5 pm. Chili Cookoff, games for the kids
• Ward Christmas Party December 6th, 6 pm. More details to come.
• The Bishopric is putting together a “Recipe book” for our graduating seniors that they can use on their missions and at college. We are looking for 5 ingredients or less recipes that take 30 minutes or less to make. If you would like to contribute a recipe, please email Paul Skolmoski.

Come Follow Me Schedule for Home and Family, Sunday School, Primary, Young Men, and Young Women

Now available from the Home page in the Gospel Library app!

Elders Quorum / Relief Society

Now available from the Home page in the Gospel Library app!

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Temple and Family History

• August Invitation: Try Indexing—Get Involved!  Use the App on your phone!

Ward Missionary

• August Invitation: Help others avoid the heat; love, share, and invite them to partake of the living water our Savior offers!

Emergency Preparedness

Action Plan for August: Sanitation and Hygiene

• Understand your Sanitation and Hygiene needs and options.  Store sufficient supplies for at least one month. Learn how to safely dispose of waste and avoid disease.  Practice emergency hygiene and sanitation skills.
• The second emergency after an initial disaster is disease outbreak. Improper hygiene and sanitation often lead to deadly diseases.
• Having storage of hygiene and sanitation supplies and knowing how to safely use them at home and away is vital.

Plan:

• Download the Emergency Sanitation and Hygiene Packet  Click Here

• Review the options for short-term and longer-term needs
• Check out the links and choose options that work best for you.
• Resources are at the end of this section.

Prepare:

• Start or Update your Emergency Sanitation Supplies.

• Add hygiene and sanitation supplies to your disaster supply kit.(Grab and Go Bags)
• Next: Gather supplies, including one month or more of toilet paper, feminine hygiene products as needed, hand sanitizer, paper towels, garbage bags, and cleaning supplies.
• Create a "sanitation and porta-potty" kit and add it to your emergency supplies.
• Gather supplies for doing laundry and dishes by hand. Teach household members how.

Practice:

• Hands on practice has been shown to be the best way to be able to respond well in an emergency.   Dry run various scenarios and the anxiety of the emergency is greatly decreased.

• Set up and Practice using your hand washing station.  Explain the importance of cleanliness and hygiene, and how it would work in a disaster.
•  Practice with the porta-potty might be done while camping.  But even just setting it up and explaining the process will be helpful to the family.

Contacts: Scott and Susan McHenry  BeReadyrf@gmail.com

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Resources:

• Be Ready Utah- Sanitation and Hygiene
• Past Emergency Preparedness Articles can be found here

Children and Youth Corner

Primary

Primary Activity Days - First and Third Tuesday nights at 7:00 pm at the Church

Friend to Friend Saturday, September 6th

Youth Book of Mormon Reading Challenge

We started a Book of Mormon challenge at the beginning of March, and the goal is to read from the Book of Mormon every day!  The youth were given a reading chart and asked to mark off the days they read…it does not have to be consecutive days…we have rewards for 21 days, 60 days, 100 days, 150 days, and 200 days.  When the youth complete one of these benchmarks, they can talk to a leader to get a reward! They do not need to read a certain amount, 1 verse, a chapter, for a certain amount of time; whatever they feel they can read each day is all that is asked.  We invite all youth to participate!

Young Women (YW)

Upcoming Activities

Missionary prep (all youth invited) Sundays at 3:45 - 4:45 pm in the Relief Society Room at the Stake Center (except Holidays)

August 

19- Etiquette dinner w/YM

26- TBD

Trek Fireside 

September 14

2026

Ward Youth Conference (Youth turning 14 in 2026 and older) April 16-18, 2026 - More details to come

Young Men (YM)

Upcoming Activities

Mission Prep (all youth invited) Sundays at 3:45 - 4:45 pm in the Relief Society Room at the Stake Center (except Holidays)

Summer

Deacons Camp - August 13-14

Trek Fireside 

September 14

2026

Ward Youth Conference (Youth turning 14 in 2026 and older) April 16-18, 2026 - More details to come

Young Single Adults [YSA] (18-35)

For high school seniors and YSA’s in the Riverton area

YSA Gathering Place Every Thursday.

Free dinner is provided, along with activities, games, and much, much more.

Where: 1855 W. 13400 S. (Church House)

When: Thursdays 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Click HERE to sign up for notifications about activities and events.

Attention All YSA’s - Utah Area YSA Conference

“Together in Christ,” August 29-31, 2025.

Come enjoy the social and spiritual activities. Click here or scan the QR code to register.

Riverton Central Stake Announcements

The Stake Summer Fair (formerly known as the Stake Harvest Fair) will be held on Aug 23rd from 5:30-8pm at the Riverton City Park.

Ward Goals and Unit History

• 2025 Riverton Farms Ward Goals

• https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTjRKTY5Ojq0dGBTmIOMZjlzaFtCqzxtMNu7m0MQkJcyzThUByIK6GySWB1CMzf5A/pubhtml?gid=714045081&single=true

• The Unit History tool is available for Ward members at the following URL. Any member of the ward can submit ward history items, stories, pictures, etc.

• To access Ward and Stake submissions to the Church’s Unit History tool, use your Church account to log in to https://unithistory.churchofjesuschrist.org/?lang=eng

Missionary and Service Member Addresses

Zoom Meeting Links

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