Anyone ever get released from a calling and just felt so bummed about it?? Yesterday I was released from my calling as first counselor in the Young Women's Presidency after serving in that calling for 3 and 1/2 years! I knew it was coming at some point, but I just wished the end would not come. I have grown to love the young women so much! Watching them come into young women's as shy, timid beehives and now they are so grown up as mia maids and laurels! I know all their little quirks and their talents and which young men they like and what they like to do on the weekends. I truly think of the girls as my close friends and am truly going to miss spending every Wednesday with them and listening to their testimonies and thoughts on Sundays in Young Women's!
I know the Lord has a new calling planned for me, and I am grateful for my time I got to serve the girls, but I am still quite sad about being done. Am I crazy weird or have any of you felt this way??
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I felt that way too! I served in YW as a counselor over beehives...
It was sad to be done but I admit a kind of relief, too. I was ready to have a little more time for family. Activities each week and teaching lessons each Sunday just added up over time. But I made friendships with those girls that will last a long time - I am even friends with some of them on facebook. Kind of fun.
Now you get to grow in a different way and meet other people (who may not be as charming as geeky 12 year olds) that you will learn to lvoe, too.
when we were in the process of moving, my husband left three months before me but they released me at the same time. I was the primary chorister and LOVED it and I felt so FIRED! It was very hard to not feel like they were shipping me out too when I really felt like those three months would be where I'd need the most inclusion and support being without my spouse. and apparently someday i'll actually get over those feelings... but maybe not yet.... :)
i would take it as a challenge to keep up friendships with those girls-they'll need it and being young, you can help them transition to RS and show them there is life after YW. and that their new leaders are just as great because that can be a hard on them too.
I have never been in a calling that long. I don't think I've ever had a calling for more than a year. I can understand why you would feel really sad about being released after 3 1/2 years. Hopefully you will enjoy being with a new group of people on Sundays, whether it is adults or kids. I have not been in Relief Society much since being married, but when I was in it before being called to Primary, I really used the opportunity to soak in the lessons and try to get to know as many sisters as I could. When people move into the ward, they at least start out going to Relief Society and that is an awesome chance to make them feel welcome. I always feel grateful for people who have done that for me, and so I try to do that for others. It's kind of fun to take on a new calling and meet new people and develop new skills. I love when I get the chance to work with new people. Sometimes you feel like you see the same faces every Sunday but you don't really know a lot of them and I love being surprised and finding out how cool someone is when I have the chance to get to know them. Let yourself be sad for awhile, but maybe you'll have the chance soon to get excited about a new opportunity.
I was so sad when I was released from the RS presidency. Within a month I was put into the YW pres but that didn't really help... I had gone from being in the know... I knew all the new girls in the ward, I felt connected to the women of our ward, to be in the never knowing! Every Sunday I feel like I'm in a brand new ward because I don't have a clue who any of the new faces are...
Even callings that I don't love, or even like, I'm always sad when I'm released and for me, part of it is the anticipation of what's to come. I get comfortable and don't want to change!! :D
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