A new calling

Today I got a new calling.  I was called and sustained within 15 minutes...my head is still spinning.  But I am so excited!  I get to serve with women that I admire and like, and I get to work with 12-13 year old girls.  The calling?  2nd counselor in the YW presidency.  It has been 10 years since I served in YW, and I have wanted back in for years.  I wanted to serve while Meg was in YW but it wasn't to be.  Which was fine, because if I had been in there, she wouldn't have become the awesome woman that she is - the Lord knows what is best.  

A calling in YW is super busy but really rewarding!  I look forward to getting to know those 15 Beehives and learning all that they have to teach me.  They'll think it is the other way around, but I know the truth.  The truth is that the learning has already begun. :o)

Sophie was so upset when they released me from my calling as Activity Day leader.  She thought, for some reason, that I had chosen to be released and asked for this new calling.  She pushed me away in tears and wouldn't speak to me all of Sac. meeting.  But I explained to her that callings come from the Lord.  I didn't make the choice, but the Heavenly Father did.  And I explained that she could come to our activities (since Chad is involved in YM, and obviously, Adam and Sam are there too).  When I was set apart, the Bishop mentioned that Sophie would be able to come to the activities and learn from the older girls.  I peeked and Sophie was smiling big.  Our bishop is so great.  

I love this ward.  It is a pleasure to serve here.  I've had three callings in the past year that we've lived here, and every one has been great.