{"id":23015,"date":"2022-08-16T15:33:01","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T21:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=23015"},"modified":"2022-08-16T15:48:31","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T21:48:31","slug":"sister-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2022\/08\/sister-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Sister leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Molly and Karen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There were so many surprises awaiting me when I was called to be a stake Primary president. Actually, everything was a surprise. I didn’t know anything a stake Primary president was supposed to do. (Someone told me that my job was to show up and look pretty… Um, no, but I do find myself smiling a lot.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I didn’t know how much I would be working with bishops and their counselors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I didn’t know that high councilors would become my friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I didn’t know that in addition to my presidency, I would grow close to the stake Relief Society and stake Young Women presidents. (Pictured above.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I didn’t know that the stake presidency would take so much time to listen to the concerns and ideas of sister leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I didn’t know how often I would be called upon to speak to different congregations, sometimes with very short notice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I didn’t realize how much I would admire the ward Primary presidents and see their strengths so clearly. I didn’t know that I would be praying for so many children and parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Sunday, the stake Relief Society presidency was released and a new set of sisters was called. I will miss sitting with Molly in stake council meetings and on the stand during stake conferences. She served in her calling while I was a ward Relief Society president, so she has been a kind of mentor to me for 7 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I never pictured myself in this leadership role. I don’t see myself as a Primary leader type, but the more I let go of my ideas, my limiting thoughts, and my personal script, the more I grow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There were so many surprises awaiting me when I was called to be a stake Primary president. Actually, everything was a surprise. I didn’t know anything a stake Primary president was supposed to do. (Someone told me that my job was to show up and look pretty… Um, no, but I do find myself smiling … Continue reading Sister leaders<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church","category-life-according-to-angela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23015"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23023,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23015\/revisions\/23023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}