Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Monday, February 7, 2011
So I'm one of the Relief Society teachers- yeah I know, sucks huh? There was a meeting on Sunday for "training" and when I got there it was me and two other ladies that are probably in their seventies that have been teaching RS since we've lived here- so at least 4 years....
Now, I think this all started because I was extremely reluctant to accept this calling- there are about 8 women out of the 50 or more women in RS who are under the age of 50. I am not being dramatic about that either- seriously our ward is one of those "newly-wed or nearly dead" ones. Needless to say, I am not too excited to teach women who know 500 million more things about the gospel than me. Oh, and did I mention they all don't remember even one tiny bit of what it was like to raise young children so a lot of them are pretty judgmental? Anyways, I didn't want to do it, but the bishop said the presidency had already been sent back to pray about it by him and they said they were sure they wanted me. So, basically I had no choice. Awesome.
Back to the meeting- it was all about how if you are "personally worthy" you will be a really awesome teacher. I took out of the meeting:
a. I am the only one in this room who needs "help" with the calling, so I am now The Service Project
b.You think that just because I don't like my calling, I must be having some personal worthiness issues??!!??
c.Everyone has been judging me and talking about me even more than I already thought
d. I'm so excited that you just gave me a whole other list of CRAP I have to do to "be a good teacher"- what all that other stuff like visiting teaching, going to the temple, family home evening, reading scriptures, doing family history, doing missionary work, writing in your journal, feeding the missionaries, writing in your journal oh and did I forget BEING A GOOD MOM- was that NOT ENOUGH STUFF TO DO????
okay- I would apologize for my rant, but your know what- I'm not sorry. Could you tell?
Now, I think this all started because I was extremely reluctant to accept this calling- there are about 8 women out of the 50 or more women in RS who are under the age of 50. I am not being dramatic about that either- seriously our ward is one of those "newly-wed or nearly dead" ones. Needless to say, I am not too excited to teach women who know 500 million more things about the gospel than me. Oh, and did I mention they all don't remember even one tiny bit of what it was like to raise young children so a lot of them are pretty judgmental? Anyways, I didn't want to do it, but the bishop said the presidency had already been sent back to pray about it by him and they said they were sure they wanted me. So, basically I had no choice. Awesome.
Back to the meeting- it was all about how if you are "personally worthy" you will be a really awesome teacher. I took out of the meeting:
a. I am the only one in this room who needs "help" with the calling, so I am now The Service Project
b.You think that just because I don't like my calling, I must be having some personal worthiness issues??!!??
c.Everyone has been judging me and talking about me even more than I already thought
d. I'm so excited that you just gave me a whole other list of CRAP I have to do to "be a good teacher"- what all that other stuff like visiting teaching, going to the temple, family home evening, reading scriptures, doing family history, doing missionary work, writing in your journal, feeding the missionaries, writing in your journal oh and did I forget BEING A GOOD MOM- was that NOT ENOUGH STUFF TO DO????
okay- I would apologize for my rant, but your know what- I'm not sorry. Could you tell?
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