Sunday Shocker!

I woke up this morning still in a state of shock--as did James. You see, we went to church yesterday and were surprised to be pulled in by the Stake President. James got called into the new Elder's Quorum Presidency of our ward. He got called in (to speak with the Stake President), then I was called in to see if I would support him, and 10 minutes later he was called during the Elder's Quorum meeting!

James has done this church job before, it is a busy job. They help with any and many needs of the families in the ward. There will be lots of meetings and lots of service projects (and lots of time away from the family). We find it ironic that one of the big reasons that we moved to Germany was perhaps to have slower pace of life, when in fact, it is turning out busier for all of us. James' job is more demanding and now he has a very demanding church job. This all effects me as well.

James will go to his first Presidency meeting tomorrow night. He is just feeling overwhelmed by the calling (job) right now. He had barely received the calling to be a EQ teacher six weeks ago, and he felt like that was something he could manage...but this is a whole other story. I suggested that he not get too worried until after the first meeting is over--he'll get a good idea of how the EQ President wants things and whether or not he'll be easy to work with and also get a clear idea of the actual "needs" of our ward (unfortunately, I think they're great since we have lots of brethren serving down range.)

Until later,

Emily