Sunday, November 22, 2015

Right

In my calling as the Sunday school president I have to make sure we are properly staffed for teachers.  We were okay for teachers but felt like we wanted to add one more to our Gospel Doctrine class.  We had 5 at one point and dropped down to two.  This was not bad as both instructors were happy to teach more than once a month.  I know when I taught Gospel Doctrine I wanted to teach every week. It was one of my favorite callings in the church.  Anyhow, we called a third instructor, Sister Aullman who had taught the youth for many years.  She was released from that a few months ago. I asked her to help sub the youth class in October as we lost teachers and had a new Sunday school teacher that would take the class but was on another assignment for the month.  At that point I had the feeling that we should call her to be a Gospel Doctrine teacher.  The Bishopric agreed and she was called.  Today she taught her first lesson and it was fantastic. In the youth curriculum there is a different teaching style that incorporates media and a lot of discussion. Sister Aullman has an excellent background in doing this and we felt it needed to be part of the adult Sunday school.  Today she modeled it perfectly for the other instructors and added a dimension to the class that was fantastic. The Spirit was strong in that room today and it felt good, really good.  I am grateful to the Lord and the promptings of the Holy Ghost.  I am glad I listened and that the presidency listened and the Bishopric did as well. Our desires are to do what is right.  I knew today that we had done that when we acted on those promptings. It was a humbling experience for me today.  I hope that I can keep myself attuned to the Spirit and that I can act on promptings received.  There are times when those promptings in the past have fallen on deaf ears and I hope I can minimize that in the future, that I can be quick to act when impressions come.  

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