Nursery

Last Sunday, I was sustained and set apart as our ward's nursery leader. When I received the call, I had very mixed emotions about it. I won't go into the details of those emotions here other than to say that I was really loving my current calling and I have served in nursery before and it wasn't my favorite place to be for various reasons. After a lot of pondering and praying about it, I began to be pretty excited about my new calling and knew that I needed to embrace it. The nursery in our ward is very structured - which is very much needed due to the amount of children that attend every week. I work better with structure so I feel like I will do just fine. Last week, I followed the former nursery leader around as she showed me how things work. Today was my first time "on my own". I am definitely not on my own though! I am very blessed to be in there with some great nursery workers! We have a need for a minimum of 9 workers - we currently have 7 called workers and several regular substitutes. Hopefully, we will be fully staffed soon and we will be able to run even more smoothly than we already do. Today wasn't too bad. I felt a little bit like I was all over the place but I had a lot of help from them and they showed me the way.
I love those little kids already. I hope that I can help make their introduction to the Gospel a special experience for them. I realize that most of these children will not remember their nursery experience but I know that it will help shape how they feel about Primary and church in general. I hope to learn some things from these precious children who have so recently left our Heavenly Father. I hope that I can learn to be more like them - more loving and more pure in heart.