A New Calling

Well, as of a couple weeks ago I was officially released from Young Women's. I was and still am so sad, but I guess change is good for all of us and I am trying to get really pumped and excited about my new calling. I am now a den leader over the wolves in the cub scout program. This is a huge change and an area where I have absolutely no idea what I am doing. I don't know anything about 8 year old boys and I'm not really into the whole camping, wilderness stuff. I guess it's time for me to learn, so that I am well prepared for when Bradock is ready to join. I even asked the bishopric that called me to this position if I had to wear a scout shirt and they said yes...it's the yellow shirt. My response was "Oh, no I can't wear that shirt, yellow just isn't my color". The bishopric started laughing, but I was honestly not kidding. Let's just say I will have to overcome a lot of things with this calling...like dealing with sweaty, highly energetic boys. Anyways, I have now attended 2 den meetings and I do have to admit that an hour does go by fairly quickly. The boys are a little challenging, but there are definitely some good, sweet ones too.

In fact, on Wednesday it had been a busy day including two shots at the dr. for Raylee. She wasn't really up for playing with all the kids in the cultural hall when I got to the church for scouts that afternoon, so I decided to just bring her to hang out with me. One of the boys in our group kept looking at me and Raylee and finally he said, "Wow she doesn't look anything like you." I said, "Ya I know." He then said it again, but added "She REALLY doesn't look anthing like you...is she adopted?" I said, "Ya she is." At the end of the meeting, another little boy in the group came up to me and asked "When did you get your daughter?" I told him that we got Raylee as a newborn, only 3 days old." I then told him that my son, Bradock, is adopted too. This little boy got a shocked look on his face and then he said, "You mean you have never had a baby of your own." I said, "No I have just adopted both my kids." He then said, "Wow that is the saddest thing I have ever heard." It really just made me chuckle because I thought this little boy was truly sad that I had never been pregnant and had a baby. I told him that I'm not sad about it and am lucky that I was able to adopt my kids. I think I just might learn more than just patience from these boys. They really do have caring hearts and I am excited to get to know them better.