This week I unpacked the last box from the quilt show and for me the "show season" is officially over. I thought life would be easier. Wrong again. I didn't even get to heave a sigh of relief.
Tomorrow night I will officially be set apart to be the stake Relief Society president. We've already had our first presidency meeting this week.
(My brother told me that his stake RS president is Anne Madsen, the wife of Truman G. Madsen. Was that supposed to make me feel better?? He said I was in good company.)
There seems to be a lot of changes happening in my life right now.
I went to church in a new ward last Sunday. They moved our neighborhood again into a different ward. From our little neighborhood my old ward lost their RS pres and counselor, the Primary president, and the ward clerk. That’s some neighbors I have, huh?
My new ward is small but includes the stake YW pres, now the stake RS president, the just-released stake Primary president, the stake YM Secretary, 2 high councilors, and several stake seminary teachers . Especially for a stake with 17 units, that’s a pretty high concentration. Some ward I’m in, huh?
Today I had a farewell lunch with the stake YW presidency that I've been serving with. I have loved them and learned so much. The president said the saddest thing she had to do all week was take my name off her YW e-mail list, but this last get-together was saddest for me.
For the first time in my married life I have someone coming in to clean house for me. I've always said I'll feel like I have it made when someone else cleans my house. Do I feel like I have it made? Not in the least. It's a limited cleaning, but it frees me up to have book club and study group and presidency meetings and do all I have to do with less stress, and it makes my husband happy.
We've been in a drought so long that torrential rains have caused severe flooding, destroying hundreds of homes and 5 lives; people are still missing. One county alone had 75% of the corn and wheat crops damaged, and $27 million in property damage. Part of that area is in our stake. Oh, wait, isn't the stake Relief Society president supposed to do something about that???
Guess I better go read my handbook, and my book club book, and my scriptures and my Ensign and the newspaper and my e-mail and 5 years of World-Wide Training books and -- yikes! what am I doing sitting here? I gotta go.....
Be of good cheer.
The kingdom is yours and the blessings there of, and the riches of eternity.
And he who receiveth all things with thankfulness shall be made glorious.
And he that is a faithful and wise steward shall inherit all things. D&C 78
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4 comments:
I don't know how you keep up with everything you have to do. But I am so excited for you and this new calling! I'm sure you'll be nothing short of amazing. Love you!!
Oh my, you've got so much going on it's crazy. I'm sure it will be a big help to have someone coming in to clean for you, especially since that's not something you enjoy doing anyway. Being able to keep up with book club is therapeutic and necessary. Good luck with everything!
I would not want to start off my "term" with floods and lost crops- good luck with everything! I'm thinking of you and looking forward to your visit in August!
I love reading your blog. You will be a wonderful Stake RS President, and those with whom you will work will never be the same. May the Lord bless you, Richard and your beautiful family.
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