New Calling!

On Sunday I was sustained as the Young Woman Mia-Maid Adviser, Girls Camp Assistant Coordinator, and just received a call tonight about a new assignment on the Enrichment Commity for the Christmas Program.

I am so excited, but overwhelmed and feeling very unworthy of the responsibility and joy that comes along with the Young Woman! It is funny actually... about a month ago I started to think about the YW more than I usually do. I found myself thinking about what my patriarchal blessing says and hoping that it meant the young women rather than nursery or primary... not that I don't love those two callings, because I think the nursery people every Sunday for their service and patience, but I was just hoping it was something else... like the YW. I think Heavenly Father guided my thoughts a little so I wouldn't be so side-swiped by the calling.

I love the YW program! It definitely got me through my high school years with my best friends and I really think that I might have ended up way different in my life had I not been a part of the Young Womans. I feel a little overwhelmed, but in my patriarchal blessing it tells me that I will be called to teach the youth and to accept the callings. I feel so inadequate though in these new "set of shoes". These young woman are amazing! You don't even know. There is Beehive, Mikelyn Nelson, that just joined YW this Sunday and she is fantastic. She watches Landon and Brielle for Andrea and I and she has a special gift with kids. I thought she was older than she really is.

I keep thinking: How am I supposed to teach these amazing girls the things that they will need to shield themselves in this world? It seems that so much more evil is creeping into homes and families that I am so glad for the church to help us arm ourselves and protect those things that we hold sacred and close. I hope that everything will go well and that the First Counselor and I can work together on this to benefit the Mia-Maids and all the woman in the YW program.

It was funny that I stumbled on the words this last Sunday for the YW theme. When I was just headed out to college the last couple of months was the time that they added the line in the end of the theme that you recite each Sunday. Oh how I miss that and the Spirit and power that you feel when you recite the theme with all the YW voicing it around you. What a feeling of sisterhood!

I can't wait to go to Camp with the girls too! I have so many amazing camp stories to share, but the only one that I will was the memory that includes my mother as one of the leaders that was with my group on year. She had given us little toy water guns that were really cheap-o's but fun, because each of us had one, earlier in the day. Little did we know that once we were done with the fun and had set the guns down to just sit and talk, the leaders (including my mother) rushed out of their Tee Pees with these enormous super soakers. Well as you can imagine we failed miserably against them. They of course had a little lesson to go along with it, but I can't remember what it was. I think they made it up after all the rest of the camp came over because of the commotion we were raising and squeals being let out.

Well I really better get eat my Frog right now... it's at the end of the day, but it has to be one and of course I did really bad this week with eating my Frog earlier in the day to get it over with... I haven't written my blog about my Frog... That will be the next one posted! Sorry about that... :)