Sunday School Pres

For the last year or so I have been serving as the Sunday School president in our ward.  I have had the opportunity to serve with some fantastic men that I look up to and admire a great deal.  Jake Whetman, Gary Scholes and Will Bagnall.  I love working with them and look forward to being able to continue to work with them as we strive to do our best to help the work of teaching the gospel move forward effectively in the ward.  We had our presidency meeting today and we are in the middle of a logistical challenge with wifi and classrooms and a special class that is needing to be taught.  It is a lot of stuff.  We have the challenge of not having enough space for everything that is going on right now and that is a good thing.  We will press forward doing our best to facilitate the needs of the ward. 

One of the things that is exciting for us right now is a new program that is just starting Teaching in the Saviors Way where there will be monthly Teacher Council Meetings that are under the direction of the Ward Council and usually directed by a member of the Sunday School Presidency.  We are working on finalizing which Sunday of the month we will designate for these meetings.  It looks as if we will be looking at the first Sunday of the month.  This is fine with me. The program is really neat and places an emphasis on teaching the gospel by bringing teachers together to council together and to learn from each other how to best teach the gospel.  It should be a really program and we are excited about getting it going. 

We had a conversation today in our meeting where Will Bagnall talked about how much more involved it is being in the presidency then what he was anticipating and expecting based on what other people had said to him.  I think we all heard similar comments and had expectations of this being an easy calling where all we had to do was collect rolls and ring a bell.  This is simply not the case.  There is much to do and there will be much more to come as we do our best to act in the office we have been appointed to.  Anyway, grateful again for the good men I serve with and hope the work we are doing is acceptable to the Lord.