Hum your favorite Hymn

On Sunday the ward boundaries in our stake were rearranged and a new ward was created. It is fun to see the Church growing here. We will remain in the same ward, so Aaron will continue as Executive Secretary. I was surprised to get a phone call from the Primary President last night asking me to switch from being the CTR 6 teacher to Primary Chorister. She said that she had lost 21 members of the Primary board and was rearranging those that remained. If all of this wasn't stressful enough on her we have our Primary Sacrament meeting Program in a month! So I'm pretty shocked by this new calling. I don't mind planning fun ways of teaching the songs and games but I am very nervous about the me standing up there singing part. I am taking the place of an amazing chorister with an extraordinary voice. This lady to pick up a phrase anywhere in the song and sing it beautifully. I don't think I'll be trying that anytime soon. I know that it will all work out and that I'll do fine... eventually. I have faith that the Lord will make up for my lack of music ability if I go each week prepared and humble.

So today I started the "cram session". I'm trying to memorize the songs for the Program so that I can at least mouth all of the words for those teachers and kids that don't remember them. Out of the 8 songs we'll perform I know 1 perfectly, 3 mostly though I get verses or phrases in the wrong order , and the remaining four I need to be looking at the words. Yikes! Talmage loves it though because he gets to sing primary songs a lot more. (In fact Primary Songs is now a subject in Preschool, right along with math and reading except I think Talmage is the teacher and I the student at times.) Besides learning the words to the songs I have some serious brushing up to do on my conducting skills. I have one song that switches time 5 times in each of the 4 verses. Was that really necessary!?