Unexpected Callings

As previously stated, when I was called as primary president, I was told that the primary has less than 20% activity.

I am happy to say that this statement is wrong.  We actually have about 40% activity and 60% less actives.  Which is still a lot, but it is a lot less daunting than what I had originally thought.

Since May, I have requested that the bishop call about 6 new teachers in addition to the ones we already had, as we split all the classes.  We will be requesting that 4 more are called at the beginning of the year as we feel it would be best to split the Valiant boys and the Valiant girls.  We feel this way will be better for re-activation efforts.  That isn't even mentioning the nursery or cub scouts!

On Sunday, our CTR 4 teacher requested that we get another helper in her class as the kids are wild and crazy and honestly hard for 2 teachers to handle, especially during Sharing Time.  Funnily (or sadly), the two worst kids in that class are my daughter and my first counselor's daughter.  Go figure. They are just a couple of Chatty Cathy's who are incredibly enthusiastic about everything.  Not necessarily bad, but very distracting for all the other kids in the class.  If all goes well, we will be getting a third teacher for that class.

For the past few weeks, it has been me, my very pregnant first counselor, and my secretary.  My second counselor was released a few weeks ago.  She has a lot of health problems and many other things on her plate right now, the calling was a bit too much on top of everything else.  We have been ridiculously overwhelmed of late without her, and today I was informed that we now have a second counselor!  On top of that, we submitted a name for a third counselor.  We had originally asked for a less active specialist, but because that is a calling I made up, we changed the name to third counselor (because we knew we would be working closely with her) and submitted that.  Tonight I was notified that the name we submitted for that suggested calling has been accepted, she has been called and she accepted!  We are so excited to have help again!

When we did have a full presidency, we were still not able to visit any of the classes, but now, with our third counselor, it will be possible.  I cannot express my joy to be working with these two special women who have accepted the call to help us in the primary.  I am overjoyed!

I know that miracles are happening, and it is such a privilege to be able to witness firsthand the Lord's hand in this work.  We have great plans to help the children make it to church and to help their testimonies grow.  What a blessing it is to be a part of such a great work.