Just when you think life can't get any crazier.......

I wish I would have written this post when my emotions from the month of January were fresh........

Chris for the last year has been serving as Second Counselor in the Bishopric in our ward. He enjoyed getting to know the ward and helping the Bishop as best he could. Normally Bishops in our stake are called to serve for five years. The current Bishop had hit his five year mark in December which meant we probably were getting a new Bishop/Bishopric soon.

Chris had seen me struggle over the last year sitting by myself with three little kids. He kept thinking how nice it would be to sit again with his family, but he would do whatever the Lord wanted of him. I kept secretly hoping for the same thing, realizing that I would support him in whatever the Lord wanted as well.

The first weekend of January we got a call from the Stake Executive Secretary. We knew it either meant that he was meeting to inform us that Chris was to be released, or that Chris might be getting another call. Little did we know what was coming.

I headed down to the Stake offices with Chris with little reservations. I figured he might be called to serve in a new bishopric again since he had only been in about a year. However, as soon as the Stake President shook my hand and asked to interview Chris, I just felt it.

All I could think to myself was "OH, NO! NOT US! NOT HIM!"

After the Stake President met with both of us separately, he and his counselors met with us together and called Chris as the new Bishop of our ward. We couldn't believe it. We didn't think with three little kids and with Chris only being 32, that this was ever in our future, especially our near future. We had such mixed emotions about the whole thing.

I felt anxious, nervous, worried, happy that the Lord feels he can do it at this time, etc. I felt so many different things but especially worried. I felt this way until Chris was finally set apart and a peace finally came over me. I know that he will do the best he can, and that I will hopefully support him the best I know how.

To sum up my feelings..........The Lord really does work in mysterious ways!