In the beginning...

Hi!

I guess this is easier than I thought! My girls keep saying I need to 'blog' for my grandkiddos at least, so I suppose that's what I'll do. At first, I think I'll blog about 'turning points' and 'lessons learned'.

Maybe some of the grandkiddos ought to have a 'blog' so I can see what they're up to from their prospective...at least the ones that could, like the older children 6 and up...??? That would be fun to see what's in their minds at this age.

Today I taught again the Gospel Doctrine class in our ward. I've had this calling for a couple of years and from the first day I ever taught, I felt the overwhelming inadaquacy of my preparation no matter how much studying I might have done. I had never really studied the Old Testament, but found myself teaching it. It turned out to be one of the most wonderful of all my callings in the church. It's forced me to study in depth the Old Testament and I've learned to love it. This year we've been studying the New Testament and I have learned to love it too. It always seemed to be so over my head to study too much in the Bible, maybe because I was never encouraged to do it before I was baptized when I was in the Catholic Church. There was always the idea that no one but the 'higher ups' could figure out what the prophets were trying to say...so trust them, and they will let us know what that is. Anyway, an incredible world has opened up to me and I am so grateful for this calling. Believe me, I thought they had the wrong girl when they asked me to do it 2 years ago. I'm finding that the Lord blesses me every time I teach to be able to understand what I should from the lesson material. Every calling I've ever had, I feel inadequate at first and I've learned to just trust that there is a reason for the calling and that reason eventually shows itself. I learned a very valuable lesson. When I was a fairly new member of the church and at BYU, I was asked to be the secretary in Young Womens. I told them I didn't know anything about doing that and I turned them down. Later when I was on my mission in Texas and was transferred to the Mission Office, the girl I replaced told me that the one calling she had before her mission that helped her the most in the Mission Office was being secretary in Young Womens. It was a struggle for me in the Mission Office for awhile. All of the records for every organization in the church in every stake came through the mission office and I had to record them and keep track of them and send them to SLC. Needless to say, I never turned down a calling again. The Lord knows the preparation you'll need for every station in life and makes that possible wherever He can. Lesson learned.