Blessings

It was an emotional day.  Recently my husband was called to be bishop of our ward/congregation.  This is not a paid position, this is not something that we campaign to receive or even ask for.  It is a position that our leaders extend to certain individuals for a certain amount of time.  It is extended through our leaders but it is a calling from the Lord.  We know that this is His will and it comes from Him not from man.  It is an honor and it is humbling to receive.  My husband may have been the one to receive the calling but it effects our whole family in good and difficult ways.

I am still getting used to the idea of having him gone a lot to meetings and other responsibilities.  We have a wonderful relationship full of love and friendship.  He truly is my best friend and I share everything with him.  He is very involved in our family and helps me out in so many ways.  He is amazing.  I often call him "Superman" because he is in so many ways.  So it has been difficult to have this added pressure on his time.

My Best Friend

Just like everyone else I have my good days and my not so good ones and I had a not so good one.  But I did feel my Heavenly Father with me.  My sweet mother called and asked how I was doing.  I was blessed that I could talk to her without interuption for 45 min. as I drove to the Temple.  I was then blessed to be in the House of the Lord where I could feel His love and feel closer to Him.  When I returned to my friends home who had been watching Maddie and Michael she listened and gave good council.  I am blessed to have such a good friend.  That evening when things were not going well I was blessed to be able to go to my in-laws home and bask in their love.  I felt so blessed to be surrounded by family and friends to lift me up when emotionally I just didn't have the strength. 

This is the blessing that I have been feeling as my husband has been called to be Bishop.  I have felt the arms of the Lord around me and around my family.  I am in constant prayer to him and am always searching for ways to do His will.  And on those days that it is hard I feel His love.  He puts people around me to help and strengthens me to be able to continue on.  I may have to share my husband more but I also feel the Lord making up the difference.

Today I read a talk by President Henry B. Eyring, 1st Counselor in the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (click here to read/watch/listen.)

"You asked some already heavily burdened, knowing that the greater the sacrifice, the greater the compensation they will receive from the Lord. Those who have helped in the past have felt the overflowing gratitude of the Savior."--Our family may be young and it may be very difficult at times to have Derek be bishop but I know that the Lord will give us the "compensation" that we need.  That we are blessed and that He is doing this for the good of our family.  This will make us stronger as a family, stronger in our relationship with our Savior.  I do not regret the decision to accept this call of the Lord.

“Neither take ye thought beforehand what ye shall say; but treasure up in your minds continually the words of life, and it shall be given you in the very hour that portion that shall be meted unto every man."--I have had this happen in my life.  I know that as I continue to study the words of the Lord that He will bless me to know what to say and when to say it.