Celebrating 170 Years

Bloom Where You're Planted

was the theme for this year's 

Discovery Bay Relief Society Birthday Party.

Relief Society is celebrating 170 years!

The organization began on March 17, 1842

in Nauvoo, Illinois.

We celebrated with FUN decorations,

YUMMY food,

and card making.

My favorite part of the evening was

Quennie's spiritual message.

She is a sister from the Philippines and

has been working in HK for 4 years as a helper.

She began her talk by saying when she

first began attending the 

Discovery Bay Branch she felt like a 

bud, not yet open, among beautiful flowers

in full bloom.  She shared how she was 

baptized into the church when she was

nine but never knew the true meaning 

and joy of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

She said Relief Society in DB Branch 

has helped her bloom and grow.  

She has learned that

"Relief Society is RELIEF from ignorance."

The message was powerful.

Each sister went home with a flower

to remind them to 

BLOOM where they are planted.

It is a lesson I have learned much

more deeply living in Hong Kong.