My Interview with the Bishop

This did not turn out to be what I thought it was going to be. I mean, it was but it wasn't at the same time.

When I walked into the building, he was standing right there and said "You must be Amanda", as if he didn't know for sure. Why did he want to meet with me if he didn't know who I was?! Anyways, he invites me into his office and I take a seat. (side note, this is probably the most spacious bishop's office I have ever seen... We're definitely in Utah hahaha)

He begins with just asking me to tell him about myself. So I tell him generals - I'm going to school here, I'm living with my grandparents, yadda yadda yadda. He then asks me what my calling was in my single's ward at school. When I tell him that I was on the indexing committee, he just looked at me and said "But, you're supposed to do something more". Now, when he said this I was momentarily confused. I thought he was telling me that my ward had screwed up, that usually you couple that calling with another because it wasn't intense enough or something, I don't know. So I just stared blankly at him and didn't say anything. He then proceeds to tell me about sacrament meeting this last Sunday from his perspective.

Apparently, I glow. He told me that as soon as I came into the chapel, he noticed me. He said that my "countenance shown" brighter than anyone else's, that I practically had a neon sign over my head pointing to me, telling him that I needed a calling. And I'm the only one in the entire chapel that this was happening to. Thanks a lot, Holy Ghost, ol' buddy, ol' pal, ol' friend. So he turns to his first counselor and asked him who I was. Of course he didn't know, and neither did his second counselor. But Bishop was determined to find out who I was, so he sent his second counselor to come talk to me and learn my name. If only I had known what I was giving away when I told them my name - my only chance at flying under the radar.

He told me at the beginning of the interview that he didn't know what my calling was necessarily, but that I clearly needed to have one. He must have had a revelation during that interview though because by the end he said "I'm pretty sure I know what your calling is, but I need to speak with the rest of the bishopric first. But you are going to be doing a lot more than indexing committee. Just remember, whatever your calling is, that the Lord loves you and is looking out for you." I'm a little freaked out. Just a bit. I just don't know what to expect. I mean, I'm only here till the end of August! But he said he didn't care. All I know is that I'm not going to be Relief Society President or in the presidency whatsoever because that has just recently been reorganized and set up. There is no primary, there is no nursery. So I'm thinking they are going to make me a teacher. That's my first guess. But I don't know that for sure! Who really knows anyway, except the bishop and Heavenly Father. Whatever it is, it is really important to Heavenly Father that I get that calling because he went to great lengths to make me glow bright enough for the Bishop to notice me.

 So whatever it is, I will gladly accept the calling because it is where the I need to be this summer. Let's just hope I can manage to do it without being a nervous wreck!