An Emotinal Day

Sorry this update is long overdue. Our life has been a little crazy but I thought I would let you all know that JaDee was released from 2nd counselor in the bishopric. He and the 1st counselor have served for 3 years with Bishop Johnson. For those of you reading this Mormon Talk I'll explain a little bit more below and check out the link to our church: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints, on the right for more information.

Anyway it was a very emotional time for all of us but of course more so for JaDee. He has served and loved the people in our ward. He also had the unique opportunity to serve Young men, Young Women and Primary and got to know the children and teens in our ward individually. There are very few callings in our church were the men get to serve with the Young Women. They were good for him and prepared him for his daughter.

He was conducting and it was fast Sunday. When the Stake presidency released them JaDee had to get up to announce the sacrament portion of the meeting. He stood up and no words came out. I have never seen him that emotional. I was crying, the boys were crying; all 3 kids were piled on my lap as close as possible to me as they could get. We were a little pile of Moncurs in the middle of the chapel.

We made it through the meeting, each bearing our testimonies. We do know that our callings our called of God and that the Bishop was inspired to make these changes. Bishop Johnson was sad to change out his counselors and thanked them warmly. He said he could not have made it these past 3 years and set up our ward without them.

So it will be off to new ways to serve. I still teach Gospel Doctrine and love love love my calling. We have so much fun in Sunday School and I have to say that is unheard of in most cases! We sure are looking forward to General Conference this weekend. The boys because I make cinnamon roles for breakfast every Sunday Conference morning.

Now for those of you wondering what the heck I have been talking about...Mormon congregations are called wards and organized geographically which in Utah means that every few blocks is organized into a ward. Typically a ward is 300-500 people. A group of several wards makes up a Stake. The leader of each stake is a stake president. He has 2 counselors and they serve everyone in the various wards of their stake with the help of 12 High Councilmen. Each ward is lead by a Bishop and he has 2 counselors as well. They run the day to day affairs of each individual ward. It is a tremendous amount of work and Mormon clergy is unpaid. We are a very service oriented religion and that philosophy starts first with family, which is the reason I stay home. Second with the ward; everyone has a job from the bishopric, presidencies of the organizations within the ward, teachers (I teach adult Sunday School) and music leaders etc… and third with our communities and the world. Hope this helps!