I'm grateful for our President

Here we are again. Excited to hear about the heartfelt actions dedicated to that specific loved one. I am very grateful for my recipient this year. We have shared a lot of bonding time as well as some growing pains together. She seems to be doing what she can for other people and never has a ‘what am I getting out of this’ attitude.  My person this year is Mitzi.

Mitzi seems to always have a lot going on. Sometimes more than she would like. Because of this, I was always on the lookout for opportunities that I could lessen or speedup her needs. Because she was Primary President there was A LOT of opportunities.

Every Sunday morning there was always a teacher that wasn’t there. I would see her scrambling around trying to find a substitute. This was on top of her regular duties of being President. I asked her if there was anything that I could help her with. She would grab my arm and look at me with huge thankful eyes and say, “YES! Could you teach a class for me?” What I was thinking inside……uuuuuhhhhhhhh. I was not prepared to TEACH a class. However, I said sure. Where do you want me? To my surprise she said I just need you to be the second person in the class.

Because this happened every Sunday, I became her goto person. I enjoyed being with the children. But better was the look of relief on Mitzi’s face when she saw me and she knew her problem was solved. When I was at church, I looked for Mitzi so that I could try to make it easier for her to focus on her cute Primary kids.

Mitzi is so great with little kids. She always does cute crafts with them. She makes it a priority to know all their names as well. I see Mitzi going beyond a calling. She treats it as a privilege and takes it and runs.

Then Charise and I got a calling to teach the Sunbeams. I was excited because now I could try and give those kids the love and fun that Mitzi did. By this time Mitzi had moved so I steered my efforts toward Sister Hartman who is now the Primary President. Now lets be real, it is Charise who is the fun, loving one. But I did my best to make those kids feel like Mitzi would. These pictures are from lessons that I planned.

I know you may not have all the support you need every time. But through your behavior, your glowing attitude is contagious to everyone. It was very fun to help out our Primary President thinking about all the hard work and great ideas that you put into your calling. Even though you are a brat, I still love you.