Thursday, August 13, 2009

My New Calling

The Stake Exec. Secretary called Sunday and wanted me to meet with one of the counselors in the Stake Pres. last night. He also asked that I bring my husband along - you all know where this is going. 

Well, I tried not to speculate too much on what this meeting was going to be about. We started out the meeting with the normal small talk and then it begins "Sister Gordon, we would like to call you as a (wait for it................) Stake music specialist" What the heck!!!!!!!!!!! Are you serious???? My response was pretty much shock and mostly disbelief but he assured me that I didn't need any musical talent. He said normally in a situation like this my job would be to lead choirs (um, does it matter that I can't lead music) and pick music for them to sing (or read it?? or even sing for that matter). My job mostly would be administrative. He set me apart right then and the whole time I was trying not to laugh. As we were leaving the office (actually we met in the mother's lounge) he told me that he was told to be prepared for this reaction. Apparently my bishop told him that I wasn't musical which is very true.  

Needless to say I had a really good laugh at this and so did John. He said it was a calling he didn't think any Morriss would ever have. It definitely was a surprise.

In other news, we have been working to get the house ready to move in to. We are moving on Tuesday and are trying to get all of the painting done before then. We had started out with a big 5 gallon bucket of paint. We ran out and thought that we would only need about 3 more gallons. John went back yesterday with the recipe they used to make the first batch and got us 3 gallons of paint. When we started painting today, the new paint was close to the same color but definitely NOT the same!!! We painted one room with one of the new gallons because we had already started but have to take the other two back and get the right color. Only a few more days before the big move and still lots to do but it is coming together.

1 comment:

Amy Jenks said...

Oh my goodness! It'll be exciting to learn something new.
Sorry about the paint.