Darren's New Calling

Today Darren received a new calling. It all started 2 weeks ago, when we received a phone call from the Stake Presidency while we were in Florida. Darren and I both felt that we had a good idea what it might be, and it left us a little stressed for the rest of the vacation. The Stake was supposed to call us back to meet with us when we got back, but they took awhile to call back and we thought maybe we were off the hook, but no luck! They eventually called and we met with one of the counselors in the Stake Presidency on Tuesday night. They had split our ward while we were in Florida (our ward previously had over 900 members and 4 nurseries!) and in the process were reorganizing a lot of things. Darren was called to be the 2nd Counselor in the Bishopric, which is kind of what we expected but still a bit of a shock! Darren was set apart by his Dad on Thursday as a High Priest, so he will know be meeting with the old guys! Today he was sustained and set apart. He was a little relieved that it wasn't Elders Quorum President again (he has done that twice...) but I am a little worried about sitting alone in church with 2 very active children and all the meetings this will entail! We both feel like it will be a good experience for us though and will teach us a lot! Darren is excited for a chance to serve and I feel like maybe it will help us get to know a lot of people in the ward, so that will be good for us. (Most of the people we had made friends with were split into the other ward.... This seems to always happen to us!) We are a little overwhelmed, but I am sure that we will be blessed! I guess the Lord gives us opportunities to serve no matter where we live, in or out of Utah. My testimony has been strengthened that this is where we are supposed to be and what we should be doing now. Wish us luck!!!