I was asked to speak in church on Alma 34:17-32. I gave the talk yesterday at church. I was a little nervous about it, as I don’t know many people in this ward. I had noticed last week that due to the large number of children in this ward, most people don’t seem to be listening anyway, and the congregation is loud. I knew that would make delivery my talk more difficult, as it is hard to wager the reactions of the congregation.
Despite all of that, I felt the talk went well, and I was able to find those in the audience who were not overwhelmed with children to direct my eye contact to.
I have attached the talk here for record purposes.
I was also called to be the Young Women’s instructor in our ward. I am really excited about the calling because I have never served in Young Womens. There are only four young woman in the ward so I will teach all of them. I was surprised to be pulled out of Relief Society yesterday, as it seems this ward has an abundance of people without callings, and I sort of figured that I would be able to just enjoy going to Sunday School and Relief Society for a while. Not so.
We had sat in front of the YW president last week in Sacrament meeting and I had turned around to meet her and ended up chatting with her for a while- I guess that week she submitted my name to be the new teacher. So there you have it- that’s what I get for being social! Nah, I’m excited. I’ll be set apart next week.