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Sunday, June 7, 2009

Young Women Secretary


I have a calling!!! I am so excited! I was beginning to feel like the red-headed step-daughter: unwanted, unloved and useless.
It's my own fault I've been without for so long. Sweet C and I had a calling together, and when they called him to something else I panicked. I complained and somebody listened and passed my complaints on to the bishopric. I always panic at something new or different, and I complain until I get used to something. I fussed to the person who formerly had the calling, because I was afraid I couldn't do it as well as she had, worried to a mom,and complained to a friend. I think it was the friend, but she is the one I depend on to tell me to suck it up when I complain too much!
The bishop seemed to think I didn't want any calling. I'm not sure where he got that idea. I've only turned down a calling once. I still think I was right about that one, (long story - essentially I felt the spirit was telling me something else) but I have felt so guilty over it for years that I wouldn't say no again. I just felt scared that I would be too hard on the little boys without C to temper my strictness. We all know how I ruin little boys.
Anyway, I have had this calling before, for 2 weeks some 25 years ago. Then they called me back to the nursery. I have actually had a small number of other callings, but most of them I only held for a week, or two, or a month, not long enough to actually get into it, before I was called back to the nursery (19 times, through all the years my children were little and I was babysitting to earn extra money and I never saw another adult for more than two minutes at a time! I so needed to be with adults.) I loved the nursery, I just would have liked to do something else sometimes. Now would be a good time to put me in the nursery, I miss having babies.
I thought bishops had lists of who was allowed to do what, since the primary president would get released only to become the relief society president and the young women president would become the primary president and I would be called to the nursery in every ward we moved to and the only difference was whether I was ward nursery leader or stake, or both.
I was so terribly excited to be called to the library! But I was librarian, ward, building and stake for 15 years. When we moved to Reno I had no calling for 8 months then was called to be librarian! Actually, while I was librarian I got to teach sunday school too, and that is what I really loved. I taught the end of the New Testament and then the Book of Mormon - course 17. I so wanted to do the rest of the scriptures before I had to give it up. That would only have been 4 years, nothing like 15. Doesn't seem too much to ask. But it wasn't to be. I was called to teach Gospel Doctrine in Las Vegas just before we were to come home. And then because of the foreclosure had to leave that even earlier than I thought. I only taught 3 weeks, but I sure loved it. Sigh.
Anyway, enough of the old.
I get to be with the young women!!! I was already going on trek. Now I get to go to class with them! I get to get to know them! I get to have a calling that isn't nursery or library. I really want to do something new. Yeah!

4 comments:

Judy said...

I am so excited for your new calling. You'll be so great and the ladies you'll be working with are wonderful. If you need help with paperwork let me know!

AJ said...

I wish you were here with me and could be my Young Women Secretary. I am the only one in Young Women's in our little branch and someone like you would be a wonderful asset to me. I am glad for you that you get to experience something new now. I am sure you and they will grow so much from this.

Yomama said...

Ditto on AJ's comment; she is completely on her own, and would love another adult help/work with her. But, you have arrived in the ward you live in and love, and I am so happy for you! Maybe the "spell" is broken... Anyway, you know you will love it, and I think they will love you. But the stuff about ruining little boys - put a sock in it! ;->
Enjoy Trek, and I will either e-mail you a list of items to buy ahead, or just have you help me Thursday morning of the reunion...
I just can't wait!!!
Hugs,
Karlily

AdaMandy said...

Wahoo! I know how repetitive your calling have been. I was way excited for you when Judy told me you were in young womens. Have fun.