March Board Newsletter

Dear Teachers...
As our lives get busier and busier it gets harder and harder to meet together as a Primary Board. We realize any time that you might have that isn’t already scheduled is precious, and you’d much rather spend this time with your families. We know what it’s like to try and fit laundry, dinner, homework, baseball practice, and bath time between the hours of 5 and 8 each night.

As a Primary Presidency we’d like to share with you some of our thoughts and goals we have for our Santa Rosa Primary. First and foremost we want you to know how much each one of us loves serving our Heavenly Father and His children. It’s always a surprise…what will today bring? Maybe it will be our little CTR 6 singing off key with so much pride, or the example one of our oldest children is setting by participating in Sharing Time with a smile on his face. It’s never the same and it’s always a joy!

As you know our theme for this year is “I’m a Child of God”. The talks and Sharing Times will focus on this theme throughout the year, preparing us for the Primary Program in the fall. With this in mind we are going to be Spotlighting a child each week. This will give all of us an opportunity to know a little bit more about them; their likes and dislikes and the fun things that make them special.

We all have children on our rolls that never attend Church and are inactive because their parents are inactive. After listening to Brother Lopez’ talk on Sunday it was such a powerful reminder of how important one young child can be to their families. Just a note addressed to one of these children may be all that is needed to spark that interest. Maybe you can let them know about a special lesson coming up, or send them a birthday card. Some of these children might be in the same school as others in your class, giving them an opportunity to learn about fellowshipping. Please let us know who you are focusing on. This will allow the Bishopric and the other auxiliaries to become involved as well.

As we prepare our Primary room each week for Opening Exercises it’s not always easy to arrange the chairs, set up the tables and gather the children for prayer, scripture and talks. Sometime our reverence will suffer. You, as teachers, are so vital to the reverence in Primary. It’s so important that you are there for the children as they come in and take their seat. This example will go much further than anything that we might say. Please make a special effort to be sitting with your classes to help them remember where they are and to take the roll each week. The children really do panic when their teacher is even a few minutes late!

A special thank you to those of you who have been teaching not only your classes but jumping in and covering other classes as well these last few weeks. We never quite know what each Sunday will bring and to have you help out with just a minutes notice is a blessing! Thank you…

If you have any concerns or questions please don’t hesitate to give one of us a call or email.

Debi Guenther Debra.guenther@dsusd.us

Kim Donaldson kimberlyskessler@hotmail.com

Chauna Flores Chauna74@yahoo.com

Erica Lopez sal7781272@yahoo.com