Primary Days

As you may or may not have heard, I was called to be the second counselor in my ward's Primary presidency. Crazy, right?

Now, I was excited. We have two kids and seven (?) nursery kids. I know. Pretty funny. We have six adults in the room and two kids. Today only one! So like I said, I was excited. I had heard from so many women the things that they learned from children, both fun things and insightful things. However, I was nervous, too. I LOVE Relief Society. I love to talk with the women, I love hearing what they have to say, I love the lessons and the teachers, I love it all! So I was a little nervous because I didn't think I would learn like I could in Relief Society.

Today changed my perspective. I realized that I may not learn life changing concepts almost every week, but I can certainly learn how to be a good mom every week. First of all, with only two kids in for singing time and sharing time, they have all the liberty to act out and they get a TON of attention from us. So every week I get to practice strategies for keeping kids focused... and I think it will take a long time to find things that work ha ha. The biggest experience, however, was when I taught sharing time for the first time today. I taught the second verse of "I Love to See the Temple" and we had to talk about words like "sealing" and "covenant." It was difficult! I was teaching one little five year old and it was a stretch to describe these concepts in such simple terms. This made me realize that being in Primary will be a WONDERFUL preparation before Jed and I start having kids. I think I'll feel just a tad less overwhelmed once our kids start coming, and for that I am sooo grateful for the opportunity to teach in Primary. I think when I look back on these months I will have in Primary, I will be incredibly grateful for what I can learn from the experience and from the wonderful children.