5:12 PM

Joyfully Overwhelmed

Our ward has just gotten so big, that for the last 2 months the Bishop has been waiting for word from Salt Lake that the ward could be split. 2 weeks ago it finally was. They held a special stake conference to show us all the new boundries. The bad thing was that all of our presdiencies, Young Men and Women, Relif Society, Elders Quroum, High Priests, Sunday School and a counselar in the Bishopric were all now in the other ward. So our ward only had a Primary President and 1st counselar which was good because I am the CTR 5 teacher and Jeremiah is the Ward Clerk. So we thought we weren't going to be affected at all.
Until the executive secretary called and said that he wanted to meet with Me and Jeremiah. I thought great, Jer is getting a calling and I can continue to teach my 5 year olds. We meet in the Bishops office and sat down and talked with him about nothing important for about 10 mins then he looked directly at me and said we want to call you to serve in the Primary Presdiency. I was more the shocked, very overwhelmed. As long as I can remember I have always been a teacher in the Primary, once in the Young Women, but mostly in the primary. So yesterday I was sustained and set apart and now I have my first meeting with the Primary President tomorrow to take about things. Everything President Uhkdorf said in conference about being Joyfully overwhelmed is me right now. Especially since the Bishop said they are just preparing me to serve as Stake Primary Presdient then on to General Primary President. He said that jokingly, but who knows. I may be the one speaking in conference in about 20 years!!!!
I will keep you all posted about my adventures figuring out how to be in charge of the whole primary. Just pray for me.

4 comments:

Adrianne Miller said...

Ha. You'll do great Kara.

Terance-N-Jaime said...

Hey that's great news! You asked for it! You work with kids too well! :-) You'll have fun & you'll get stressed! Callings are great that way! Have fun with it & remember just because they did it in the past doesn't mean you have to! You have special talents & ideas - don't be afraid to use them!

Anonymous said...

Congrats! My prayers will be with you but i know you'll do great!

Kimberly said...

So, I'm a little late in commenting, but congrats on the calling! How is it going so far?