Comments on: Double Callings

By: Kim Siever

Kim Siever — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 04:38:33 +0000

If it is normal, then the two previous wards I attended were abnormal.

By: Sally

Sally — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 03:41:20 +0000

When I heard that commnent last night I poked the person next to me and sort of chuckled as we had just talked about that in our presidency meeting a couple of days before. We had submitted some names for people to be substitute teachers and the Bp had replied back to pick members from the “members with no callings” report. I had told him that the people on that list did not come to church. How can I in all conscience ask them to come and teach little children at last minute when they didn’t even come out?

I guess I spoke to early and should have waited until last night. Then I would have known not to ask those who already have callings. And Kim isn’t it normal to not be released for a month or two when you get a new calling? :)

By: Kim Siever

Kim Siever — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 03:30:04 +0000

In the Worldwide Leadership Training Broadcast yesterday, the counsel given by L. Tom Perry was that individuals should have no more than one calling. Given the rate at which callings are extended in our ward, it is not unusual for someone called to a new calling to serve in their previous one for another month or two.

By: Sue

Sue — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

You know, when I was in my first married ward, I was somehow sorted into the pile of members that was not considered solid enough to handle a responsible calling. I’m not sure how that happened, as I was a strong member at the time, with a TR, a list of responsible callings I’d held in the past, etc. I was VP of a local company, had lots of great organizational skills, no kids yet, and plenty of free time. And yet I didn’t have a calling for a long period of time, and when I did, it was a calling with very few responsibilities. I didn’t particularly care – I’m not a calling seeker – but it was odd to see certain women and men in the ward with two very demanding callings, while others of us relaxed. It was strange. Other than the fact that DH and I were a bit reserved, and the other folks were very outgoing and involved in social things in the ward, there wasn’t much difference between us.

I see this happen a lot, and I think the bishopric just gets a comfort level with certain people and uses them too much. They often are unwilling to extend callings to people who they don’t know very well. Maybe they don’t know what strengths other people have. Who knows.