I ran into my friend today. On Sunday, she'll be set apart as her ward's Relief Society President.
Like me, her husband is in the Bishopric (mine is second counselor - hers is first.) We both have 3 young children at home. Both of us had been serving (happily!) in Primary before this call.
She had called me last week to talk about it, but I was out of town. She's in a different stake now (she was my Primary President predecessor - crazy parallel lives), and it's good to have a Relief Society President-friend in a different stake to bounce ideas off of. She had a lot of questions and I didn't have a lot of answers, but we chatted and cried and explored the scariness and happiness of it all. We talked about the joys of seeing folks work through their problems and the many blessings that come with the calling.
I told her Visiting Teaching is the KEY to a smooth running Relief Society and remembered our hysterical Visiting Teaching movie! C-Dawg, St. Counselor and I showed this movie at our Visiting Teaching interviews last October. Before your interview, you watched this movie, ate some chocolate, filled out paperwork, laughed, cried, and bonded with your sisters.
As I was emailing this movie to my newest Presidential sister, I thought I'd share it with y'all, too. I hope it makes you laugh and maybe inspires you a little...
(Oh, and for what it's worth, I highly recommended blogging your worries away to my friend. I told her how kind many of y'all have been to me and she laughed. I laughed too, but I was serious about how thankful I am of having my own cyber Relief Society.)
