New Calling

In November (2011) I was released from Young Women's.  I was really sad to leave Young Womens.  Up to that point, I hadn't ever had a calling that I absolutely loved like that one!  I loved the girls and the other women I served with.  I also was blindsided by the new calling to be a primary teacher! When the new year came along, the class I was called to teach was a hard one.  The first few months of that year were rough.  I did not enjoy  my calling.  I loved one little girl who came every other week...she was a cutie.  Another little boy that came regularly was a very nice boy, too.  But this class had a lot of  inactive kids or kids that only came once in a while.  I came to love the other teacher I taught with!  She is such a thoughtful person and I wanted to love the children like she did.  She loved to serve these children and she really did love them - even the hard ones.  She was always concerned when they didn't come on Sunday.

On one particularly rough Sunday, I was sitting next to this boy who had such a hard time sitting through Primary.  He was one that came once every few weeks and I dreaded the weeks he showed up.  He made class so hard!  But this Sunday ended up being a turning point for me.  I said something to him about how Jesus is watching and we need to try to be reverent.  Then he said he didn't even know if Jesus was real.  That broke my heart.  The way I looked at him was different and my goal after that was to love these children and help them to get to know their Savior.  I thought a lot about it the next week and decided they  needed a picture of Christ in their room.  Some of them might already have one, but I knew not all of them did. I ended up making them these blocks in the picture.  After that point, I learned to love all of the children I taught.  Yes, maybe they were difficult and hard some weeks, but I still loved them.  I feel like that's what I needed to learn in that calling - to love Heavenly Father's children no matter who they are, how often they attend church, or how difficult they can be.  Have I perfected this? Absolutely not.  But I work on it and I have learned to love who I am called to serve.

I now play the piano in primary and love it! I love seeing my old class come in, and the boy from the story?  He comes nearly every week now and has learned to be so reverent (I think he's actually interested now)!  I think he is planning on being baptized soon after he turns 8.  My favorite part about my calling now is when I play the prelude music as the junior primary is coming in and they just start singing out loud.  I'll get quite the group singing some weeks.