Yep, you guessed it! We have new callings. James has been the Young Men's president for the last year. The thing that makes this calling hard (for him, his counselor and the young men) is that with his job he has not been able to be to church more than twice since February. No meetings, no lessons, nothing! And a lot of the time he was not able to go to the Wednesday night activities. They ended up giving him a second counselor about a month ago and he didn't even know it! So, they have asked him to be the second counselor in the young men's presidency. This will work out well. He will not be required to be at the 7:00 a.m. meetings and right now his shift allows him to be to church and when we switch hours in January his schedule will shift shortly afterwards to mid's and he will be able to go to church then! He loves being with the young men and he is the only 'man's man' i.e. likes camping, knows about scouting stuff (and actually likes it) in the y.m. and they really like that about him. haha
Now, I have LOVED my calling! I teach in Relief Society on the 4th Sunday of each month. I am really going to miss that calling. However, I am so excited about my new calling. I am the 2nd counselor in the Relief Society! So, I will still be able to teach every three months. Plus, I LOVE being in there with the sisters. This way I can stay there! They ended up reorganizing all the programs except High Priest's and Elder's Quorum, but seeing as how our Elder's Quorum president is moving this week that will be done as well.
I am really excited for both of us. I have been stressing about his other calling since he got it. I didn't want people to think he was just a slacker! He had the old Young Women's president yell at him and chew him out once (he didn't tell me, she did), and when I told her what his schedule was she was so embarrassed. I was just worried that other people would think the same thing about him without knowing what the situation was. I have learned in the past few years that you never know what is going on in someone's life and you have no idea why they make the choices they do, so you should not judge at all. Hard to remember sometimes, but extremely important!
3 comments:
Congratulations. That's exciting! I'm glad it will work better for James' schedule, and that you get to stay in Relief Society. That's great!
That's so great! I would be so completely content staying forever in the Nursery (which is why I'm not called there). And how nice that you get to be with the sisters. Congrats!!
It's hard to say goodbye to a calling that you love. I'm glad that the new one is something that you look forward to. I was just released as Activity Days Leader and put in as Primary Chorister. I was loving activity days and am feeling a bit overwhelmed with the chorister gig, but I'm trying to have a positive attitude.
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