I was in the Young Women's organization for 4 years (pretty much the whole time we've been in this ward.) Now, I'm in Primary! I was called as the 1st Counselor a bit over a month ago. This is proving to be pretty foreign water for me. The only time I really feel like I know what I'm doing is when I go in to help in the nursery. Our president has been gone for the last couple of Sundays and the 2nd Counselor has been home with a sick kid - so it's just me and the Secretary winging it each week. Hopefully I'll feel better with the President back, but it sure seems to be taking us a while to figure out what we're doing. The hard part for me has been teaching Sharing Time. I know, it's only 15 minutes. I just want to be good at it - but I'm not there yet. Coming up with creative and fun ways to teach the children isn't as easy as it seems like it should be.
We combined junior and senior Primary (at least for now) to streamline things a bit. I like having the 3rd hour to help out where I'm needed, or to meet with the other presidency members to plan things out. But I'm sure I could reach the children a little more if they were split. But then it might just be more stressful for me to plan two different lessons and have to do it twice during church. I wish I had been able to observe some sharing times from the previous presidency to use that as a gauge of how I'm doing.
Abby and Sophie haven't complained that it's been more boring than usual - so that could be a good sign. Or maybe they're sparing my feelings. Sometimes they are nice that way. :)
Anyway, I needed to vent a little. I guess I've been on autopilot in Young Women's since it's been my calling for the last 7 out of 10 years or something. I probably need this challenge so I can grow in different ways than I have before. I just hope the growing pains aren't too bad and the primary kids don't suffer them with me!
