CONTINUED ONCE MORE

VERELAN WAS THE VERY FIRST EXECUTIVE SECRATARY IN THE TENTH WARD AND HE WAS VERY GOOD AT IT AS WELL AS BEING FAITHFUL. AFTER I WAS RELEASED FROM THE PRIMARY PRESIDENCY I TAUGHT THE 6-7 YEAR OLDS IN SUNDAY PRIMARY. IT WAS SUCH A CHANGE FROM THE OLD WEEK DAY PRIMARY. I MISSED GOING TO RELIEF SOCIETY AND SUNDAY SCHOOL BUT THAT ALSO DID PASS AND I BECAME SECOND COUNCILOR IN THE RELIEF SOCIETY. A LOT OF THE TIME BOBBY DALLING AS PRESIDENT AND I WERE THE ONLY PRESIDENCY. THAT WAS A LOT OF RESPONSIBILITY FOR HER AND I DID ALL I COULD TO HELP TO LIGHTEN HER LOAD.

MY NEXT CALLING CAME WHEN AS I SAT IN RELIEF SOCIETY AND HEARD A CHILD SCREAMING AS THE PARENTS WERE BOTH IN ELDERS QUORUM PRES. AND YOUNG WOMEN, THEY TRIED TO GET HIM TO GO TO THE NURSERY. ALL THAT CRYING GOT TO ME AND ONE SUNDAY I WENT OUT IN THE HALL AND ASK IF I COULD HELP. THE CHILD WAS HANDED TO ME AND DAD HURRIED AWAY. I TOOK HIM FOR A WALK IN THE HALL AND CALMED HIM DOWN THEN WENT INTO NURSERY AND SAT AND HELD HIM ALL THAT SUNDAY AND FOR SEVERAL AFTER THAT. SLOWLY HE STARTED TO INTERACT WITH OTHER CHILDREN AND I WAS ASK TO STAY AND HELP. AFTER SEVERAL YEARS WENT BY THE BISHOP CALLED ME IN TO HIS OFFICE AND SAID "DONNA, I HAVE A FEELING YOU SHOULDN'T BE IN THE NURSERY ANY LONGER. WHAT A LET DOWN THAT WAS AND I SAID SO WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO? MARK SAID WELL I DON'T KNOW AT THIS POINT BUT WE'LL RELEASE YOU TO DAY. I REALLY FELT WORTHLESS FOR A WHILE. THEN IF MY MEMORY SERVES ME RIGHT AFTER A LONG HIATUS I ONCE AGAIN TAUGHT PRIMARY. FROM THERE WE WERE BUILDING OUR NEW HOME SO I HAD TO SAY NO TO BEING RELIEF SOCIETY PRESIDENT. I THINK THAT IS THE ONLY CALLING I EVER TURNED DOWN BUT WHEN OUR BISHOP WIXOM HEARD WE WERE MOVING HE UNDERSTOOD AND ASK WHO I'D CALL. I GAVE HIM A NAME AND HE SAID BUT SHE'S WITH THE YOUNG WOMEN AND I'D HAVE TO MAKE CHANGES THERE. HE DID CALL GEORGIA AND DID MAKE THE OTHER CHANGES AS NECESSARY. WE PARTED GOOD FRIENDS. AFTER WE MOVED I WAS CALLED TO BE THE QUILTING CHAIRMAN AND AFTER THAT WAS ASK TO TEACH AT THE CARE CENTER FOR RELIEF SOCIETY WHICH I DID FOR SEVERAL YEARS. OH YES VERELAN AND I ALSO WAS CALLED TO GO HELP TAKE THE FOLKS TO SACRAMENT MEETING FROM THEIR ROOMS AND THEN RETURN THEM AFTER THE MEETINGS. WE DID THIS SEVERAL YEARS UNTIL VERELAN COULDN'T HARDLY PUSH ONE PERSON ANY LONGER AND I AS OUR BISHOP SCHMUTZ TO RELEASE US.

THAT IS A RUN DOWN OF MY CHURCH CALLINGS SO NEED TO GO BACK TO EARLIER YEARS AND ADD LIFE THEN WILL DO THAT NEXT TIME I BLOG.