Mountfort Ward Primary Page

We're pleased to announce that our Primary now has their very own web page! It's all up and running and ready to go. Go check it out and investigate the various links we've put on there. Make it your first call for up-to-date info on primary activities.

Mountfort Ward Primary Web Page

There's also a permanent link to it in the sidebar under "Church Links"

Photos from Movie Night

Update 15 September

Hey everyone, I may have been away a few days attending a family wedding, but the Ward keeps on moving, and I have several events to add to the blog now. First up I've added a YouTube video of the young mens performance at the Fathers Day Luncheon, to the original blog post HERE. Go check it out - they did a great job.

By all accounts the Relief Society Movie night on Friday 11th was a big success too. Over a dozen sisters attended, which is great to see. I guess they enjoyed each other's company so much they didn't want to part, because I hear most of them ended up at Jennis' house afterwards. :D

The EFY fundraising on Saturday was also very successful. Bishop says $3000 was raised from the food sales in just a couple of hours. Thankyou so much to the Talisa family for providing their home for the activity base, and to all the families who contributed their food, their love and their time to support the youth. Someone is emailing me some photos taken at the fundraising, which I will upload in the next day or two. The next EFY fundraising activity will be on Saturday the 3rd of October. Mark your calendars now.

The next announcement I have to add is that we will be adding a Primary page to the blog soon. Yay! How exciting huh?! We will have a link you can click on to see what Primary activities/notices there are, and keep up to date with changes to Faith in God activities, firesides, etc. We're working on it now and plan to have it up and running by the end of the month, so keep an eye out for that.

Don't forget the Stake Musical Fireside/Presentation at Rowandale Chapel,on Sunday 20th September starting 7pm.


Iunisi is hosting a morning tea at her place on the 24th. Kids are welcome, and her address if you don't have it, is in the September newsletter.

Whew, I think that's it for now. Oops, no, one last thing. You all do know you can leave comments here on the blog don't you? At the very bottom of each post is the word COMMENT. Click on that, and a pop up box should appear (you may have to allow cookies if this doesn't happen). Write your comment in the box provided, then choose an identity. The easiest way is to choose the "Name/URL" option. When you click on that another little box will appear. Put your name (or initials, or whatever you want to be known as) in the name box. Don't worry about the URL box. Now click on the orange "Publish your comment" box. Voila! Done! Go on, try it out....you're itching to, I can tell.... :D

Line Dancing and Volleyball

What a great turn out we had tonight for our Enrichment Activity! Daphne, our Line Dancing Instructor did a superb job of teaching various dance sequences, each a little harder and slightly more complicated than the last. I was alright to begin with, but once she introduced turning in different directions, well.....my mind and my feet are just not designed to work together you know, and I was virtually an accident waiting to happen. LOL! Oh the poor sisters next to me. I think I was the only one that didn't have the co-ordination gene. God blessed me with many talents, but unfortunately dancing wasn't one of them. So to mask my lack of ability, I grabbed the camera and tried to capture the fun the sisters were having. Now keep in mind I am NOT a photographer by any means.

We were especially thankful to have the Laurels join us tonight. They brought a real energy to the evening, and their joyful spirit was contagious. (Gotta say it helped mightily that they were all pretty much guru's at co-ordination and dancing!) :D How wonderful too, to see several new faces at our activity. Sisters we loved having you join us, and hope to see you again.





After the line dancing, we divided into four teams and played volleyball. Who knew it was such a hilarious game! Going by all the laughter echoing throughout the hall, it was obvious everyone was having a blast. It was also great to see how much sporting talent some of the sisters and young women have.










Thankyou so much to Daphne for teaching us line dancing, and to Iunisi for organising the evening. I can't wait to see what's in store for Octobers Enrichment Activity.

Don't forget, those going to the movies on Friday night, meet at the chapel at 6pm. Don't be late, because they'll be leaving for the mall at 6.05pm. If you're already in Manukau, you can meet at the movie theatre in the Mall. The movie STARTS at 6.40pm, so give yourself plenty of time to buy your ticket and popcorn.


Don't forget the ward is fundraising for our Youth on Saturday. Please bring your food and whatever else you have to donate to the Talisa's home no later than 9am, so they can repackage it all and get it ready for sale by 10am when the stalls open. Tell your neighbours, bring your friends - lets all get behind our youth and help them raise money for their camp.

Father's Day Luncheon

About 30 RS sisters took part in the “Karanga” to welcome the Fathers to the Fathers Day Luncheon on Saturday 5 Sep at the Rowandale Chapel. Fathers were so impressed with this that there was a request to do it again. Later in the programme the sisters did another item and danced to the Venga Boys music. The young men also performed for the Dads, and did a wonderful job of it. Here is the video of their performance:



All in all it was a very successful day and the fathers knew that they were special and spoilt – but as Sister Tupou said to the dads – “It was a special treat for Fathers Day don’t get used to it!" (haha)

Thanks to all the sisters who attended the practices to make the event a special one.

From Jennis Lawrence

Enrichment Activity

Have you heard about our next Enrichment Activity? We're going to have some fun with Line Dancing and then play some Volleyball. If you're not an active kind of person, come along anyway and you can laugh and cheer from the sidelines. We'll have a supper afterwards, so if you have something in the cupboard to bring that would be great. Hey, maybe you have a friend or a neighbour that would like to come along? Or one of the sisters on your visiting teaching list? By all means bring them too - it's shaping up to be a great night.