I cannot lie. For years I sat in Relief Society with some of my roommates and made fun of how ridiculously frilly and fluffy our singles ward RS lessons were. I mean for crying out loud, "RS Table Centerpiece Coordinator" was a calling! Not even joking. Needless to say, it was always sickeningly overdone. I guess it doesn't help that I'm not really a super girly girl... Our teachers at the time were also kind of the cliche "nothing really matters because we are daughters of God and that's all that is important" type of teachers, so all we ever talked about was our divine worth as individuals and future mothers. Don't get me wrong, I completely agree that these things are important and a very wonderful part of the gospel- but after looking at crazy doilies, lace and flowers and being told that it doesn't matter how much I mess up because my divine worth makes it all ok in the end I got kind of sick of it. I like lesson with some MEAT and ESSENCE! I want to LEARN something so I can keep bettering myself and progressing in the gospel. So... to wrap up a ridiculously long (and seemingly negative- although its not- I love RS!) story, my roommates and I always joked that I would be called as a RS teacher. Or even worse the centerpiece coordinator... well thank goodness the latter does not exist in my married ward at BYU. I did get a calling today though... RS Instructer!
Now I am actually really, really excited. I love teaching- I have taught in nursery, primary, and obviously for 4 years at EFY I was teaching multiple lessons a day. It will just be interesting to teach adults instead of 0-18 year olds... To make it even more interesting, I have been feeling for about 4 months that I would be given this calling. I am just SO grateful that it didn't come while I was still in classes! My first Sunday teaching is next week, and I will have been done with classes for 3 days. The Lord definitely knows what He is doing, and for that I am extremely grateful. I don't know if I could've handled a single thing more during the past school year, and I'm glad I didn't have to try!
3 comments:
Yeah! Teaching Relief Society was one of my very favorite callings, I learned so much having to prepare each lesson (and I never brought a centerpiece, or even a picture from the library...but I was probably just lazy). You are so lucky! I hope you enjoy your new calling.
wow. I have never heard of that crazy centerpiece coordinator calling before... only at BYU :)
You will do a great job with your calling! A similar thing happened to my friend when we first started college. She was getting really annoyed with the way RS lessons were being taught and so she got called. She LOVED being able to have some control over it and she did an awesome job :)
Isn't it great how the Lord saves things for when you have time to do it??
I'm so glad you have a blog too! Now we are really friends :) I'm adding your blog to my list :) And yes, life in the Taylor building makes me crazy!
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