It's time to play "the glad game"!

In Relief Society this year, we have embraced the 9 virtues that President Gordon B. Hinckley wrote about in his book "Way to Be!" -  9 WAYS TO BE HAPPY AND MAKE SOMETHING OF YOUR LIFE as our theme for the year.  We rearranged them slightly, and for the month of November we chose "Be Grateful".  Although we traditionally have the official day of Thanksgiving toward the end of November, when families and friends gather to share time together, there is never an inappropriate time to be grateful.  In Mosiah 2:19 – 24, King Benjamin's wise council puts things into an eternal perspective: 19. And behold also, if I, whom ye call your king, who has spent his days in your service, and yet has been in the service of God, do merit any thanks from you, O how you ought to thank your heavenly King!   20. I say unto you, my brethren, that if you should render all the thanks and praise which your whole soul has power to possess, to that God who has created you, and has kept and preserved you, and has caused that ye should rejoice, and has granted that ye should live in peace one with another –   21. I say unto you that if ye should serve him who has created you from the beginning, and is preserving you from day to day,