Called to...Hired to...

On Friday my prayers were answered and strangely I might add because while I was hired by the company I have been wanting...my schedule conflicts with the most important thing in my life: Church. My work schedule will be Friday thru Sunday and every other Thursday. 6a.m. to 6p.m. For those who don't know or simply aren't aware, Sunday is the Sabbath and one of the ten commandments is to keep the Sabbath holy. In other words: Sunday should be reserved for worship and Christ-like activities such as service. But for the foreseeable future I will be inspecting weighing etc. plastic bags at work...glamorous and exciting on Sunday.

Now, I am very thankful for the work and I need  the job...but I need the job mostly to save for a mission and how am I supposed to serve a mission if I can't attend church for the time being? I cant partake of the sacrament or be a devoted daughter of god and follow the commandments and earn enough money to serve at the same time. Not with the job I have been offered.

I have talked to higher officials in the branch (i.e. Great Scott!'s dad and President Stutzeneggar) and was given spiritual advice as to how I should proceed to keep the spirit in my life and live as well as I can without the blessing of the sacrament. I will be attending regular classes and activities on Mondays and Wednesdays as well as the monthly Preach my Gospel meetings (at least the ones held in Oroville), but I am very down because my Sunday worship is extremely important to me. Now, with that said I received a blessing today in the form of a calling. My first calling since being baptized (nothing glamorous of course!). I am going to be making the programs for the Sunday sacrament meetings...you know, the ones I won't be able to attend. I will be set apart in a couple weeks and let me just say, I am nervously stoked!

I am so excited to have my first calling especially since it is just one more amazing thing that I get to tell Great Scott! about. I am very anxious to see how the next few months pan out and  I am exceedingly anxious to renew my covenants with the sacrament (which I did today) and I know that my testimony of the sacrament will greatly grow with the absence of it over the next few months. I hope that those that have the authority can uphold me in their prayers and bestow upon me faith that I may remain in good spirit until I can renew my covenants again. I cannot wait until the day that I can serve our Heavenly Father as a  missionary.

Please, keep me in your prayers and let me know if you need to be in mine! I would love to pray for you!

Calling-vocation, profession, or trade. A call or summons to serve.

 

SamanthaMarie