We May Not Have It All Together...But Together We Have It All: I spoke too soon

Thursday, February 9, 2012

I spoke too soon

In my last post, I commented how I was in very few of those "adventurous" pictures with the youth - and that it looked like a lot of fun that Ira had with them. Well, as it turns out...the ride is just beginning for me. While we were at Disneyland, we got a text that the new bishop needed to meet with us. We knew we'd get our calling - but hoped we'd have a couple of weeks off. The day we got back, I got called to be the Young Womens President. Let me set up the scene so you can find the humor in this.

We were meeting with the new bishopbric. Ira was no longer the bishop, so we were all making jokes and laughing about him sitting on the other side of the table. Then our bishop looks at me and says, "We are calling you to be the Young Womens President". Well, me thinking that we were all still joking, starting REALLY laughing. I knew he couldn't be serious about that one, cuz that is one of those callings which I have always feared. Especially since I haven't really spent much time in Young Womens since I was there myself (and I won't say how many years ago that was). After I laughed myself silly, (and Ira laughed with me) - I looked the bishop in the eye and he wasn't laughing. I said, "You have to be kidding me, so what is it really?" He said, "I'm not kidding". I'm sure he was as taken back by my reaction as I was by him calling me to this.

I don't feel very adequate to be a leader, especially of such remarkable young people. I'm not any good at delegating or making the final decision. I'd rather be told what I need to do and get it done, then to ask others to help me do things. I stress out too easily, and don't know how to relax and have fun as much as I should. I worry too much about the little stuff. The list of my inadequacies could go on and on. However, I have a saying that I've had on my fridge for several months now. When I realized that Bishop wasn't kidding, this quote came instantly to my mind (wish I knew who said it)...

"The Lord doesn't ask about our inabilities or abilities. He only asks about our availabilities. If we show our dependability's he will help us in our capabilities".

So I am available and willing and try to be dependable. So now I'm praying for the capability.

So let the ride begin! :)

3 comments:

Drapers said...: You will be great!!! I was only in the Young Women for a little under a year, but it was by far one of the best callings in the church. There are so many helps out there in internet land, I was wondering if you hadn't been called to the young women with some of your pins on pinterest. Something I noticed was to be there friend but also be their leader. I had some girls that I got to know really well and would try to goof off and all I had to do was look at them and they knew they had gone too far and then we could go on. I know you will be a wonderful leader!! By the way I am also one that would rather be told what to do then make the decisions. I would love to be back in YW rather than teaching Gospel Doctrine to the adults.; February 10, 2012 at 3:41 PM
Drapers said...: sorry "their" friend; February 10, 2012 at 3:42 PM
Smullin Family said...: Ooo, I so relate to feeling inadeaquate..and wanting someone to tell me what to do and make the final decision.
I was in YW just before getting called as primary president. I wasn't ready to go..only had been there a few months...BUT I don't think I was ready to be YW president..so maybe primary is where I should be. I miss YW's.
You are awesome..and you will be great!; February 26, 2012 at 11:23 PM

Kute Komments!

Jarin: "I've been waiting all day for Kamden to grow up...when will he grow up like me?"
4-2010

We were driving by a farm which was being fertilized. Jarin sniffs a big sniff and says, "Mmmm...that smells like my strawberry nose" (the strawberry nose was a yummy smelling gas mask from the dentist)!
Jarin: "Is is "fat man or bat man"?
Jarin "My heart is dirty and needs to be cleaned." Then I wash his face, and he says, "My heart is clean!" (He watched me put lipstick on once, and thought my top lips looked like hearts. Now he thinks that lips are hearts). Which makes me wonder what he thinks when he says, "The Holy Ghost makes our heart feel good."
Jarin asked with a great big smile that melts my heart, "Mom, are you being grumpy with me?" (yes, I was - but that started us both laughing instead!)
We were having a family home evening helping Emilie to prepare for baptism. We talked to her about making good choices and right vs. wrong. We were trying to prompt her to give an answer when Ira asked her, "What's opposite of right, (he asked it in the context of right choices), and she answered, "Left." (you should have seen the look Ira and I gave each other - it spoke volumes!)
Same family home evening... we were talking about the Holy Ghost. Jarin (being very tired and very sensitive at the moment anyways), started going balistic on us. Not only did he say he was scared of the Holy Ghost. And not only was he crying because he was scared, but he was SOBBING, and it continued for about an hour (which is when he fell asleep still crying)!! Then first thing out of his mouth when he woke up was that he was scared of the Holy Ghost! We think we are doing the right thing by teaching our children, but really - we have taumatized Jarin! I can only imagine what was going on in his little imagination. Did I mention that FHE finished earlier than planned?
Ira was feeling the baby move at a particularly active time. He said, "Is he moving furniture around in there?" (some days it sure feels like it!)
There was a baby being blessed in church Sunday, and Jarin saw the priesthood men in a circle, and loudly proclaims "Look mom, their playing ring around the rosies!"
Emilie asked me, "Since our eyes are blue, how come everything doesn't look blue to us?" I explained how we see through the black circle in our eyes. She said, "Then the blue is just for decoration?"
Jarin walks around the house constantly saying, and singing "I am a Child of God, and He has sent me here." And when anyones voices get too loud, he sings, "Love at home... Love at home..." I'm not sure he even knows the meaning of what he's singing, but it stops the contention and usually starts a few giggles.
Ira was talking about leap year, and Emilie asked, "What is leap year? Is it when we leap to school?"
Ira asked Emilie if you put plastic wrap or foil over a pan going in the oven. She said tinfoil. Ira said "Good thinking Emilie." She responded by saying, "No, I didn't think...my teacher told me." (thank goodness for teachers, so we don't have to think!)
Jarin asked me if he could have something, and I had told him no. He responded by asking again, then answering his own question as if he were me, "Of course you can sweetheart." (it's no wonder he gets whatever he wants - how cute is that?)
In church today, a half a second before the sacrament prayer was being said, (so it was very quiet in the room), Jarin observed that his dad was sitting on the stand, and calls out in his loudest voice, "That's my daddy up there!"
Brayden said, "I've learned to never mess with a pregnant person."
Today I told Jarin he was a sweetHEART, and he said, "No, I have a beautiful HEART, and mommy is beautiful too." (a comment like that, he can have whatever he wants!)
This one was said a year or so ago, but it was one of the best we've had ever - so it bears repeating! Emilie said to mom, "Someday I am going to marry my prince, just like you married your prince."
Jarin said, "We don't say 'monkey butt' do we?"
Jarin see's a bumble bee and says, "It's a bum-bum bee".
Emilie singing, "Loose, footloose, kick off my church shoes."

Hmmmmm...

I copied this from my sisters blog, but it's just too perfectly perfect to not be reminded of as often as possible!

Hmmmm....
There once was a woman who woke up one morning, looked in the mirror, and noticed she had only three hairs on her head.'Well,' she said, 'I think I'll braid my hair today!'So she did, and she had a wonderful day.The next day she woke up, looked in the mirror and saw that she had only two hairs on her head.'H-M-M,' she said, 'I think I'll part my hair down the middle today!'So she did and she had a grand day.The next day she woke up, looked in the mirror and noticed that she had only one hair on her head.'Well,' she said, 'today I'm going to wear my hair in a pony tail.'So she did and she had a fun, fun day.The next day she woke up, looked in the mirror and noticed that there wasn't a single hair on her head.'YEA!' she exclaimed, 'I don't have to fix my hair today!'Attitude is everything. Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.

INSPIRATION

"A religion that does not require the sacrifice of all things never has power sufficient to produce the faith necessary unto life and salvation." Joseph Smith

"The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone. The things you do for others remain as your legacy."

"Fix it up...wear it out... make due...or do without!" - Gordon B Hinckley

"In righteousness there is great simplicity" - William R. Bradford

"The most important thing parents can do for their children is to teach them to feel The Spirit and recognize when it is no longer with them."

Elder M. Russell Ballard: "There is no one perfect way to be a good mother. Each situation is unique. Each mother has different challenges, different skills and abilities, and certainly different children...What matters is that a mother loves her children deeply and, in keeping with the devotion she has for God and her husband, prioritizes them above all else."

The adversary would keep us busily engaged in a multitude of trivial things in an effort to keep us distracted from the few vital things that make all the difference."-Ardeth G. Kapp