Church and Social Anxiety

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Originally Posted by MikeWaters

Many moons ago I was called to be 2nd counselor in the Sunday School Presidency.

This was back in the day when SS opening exercises were held immediately after Sacrament meeting, before people were dismissed. The SS president would give a spiritual thought every week. I think on occasion he would invite me to do this in his place.

Then the SS president was called to be Bishop. And since he loved the spiritual thought thing, we had to continue with it. The new SS President was a traveling salesman who was gone most weeks. So he would call me up and ask me to do the spiritual thought.

How many people in this church have to prepare a sermon EVERY WEEK???!!!! It was a lot of pressure and it sucked. I was becoming Joel Osteen. The first counselor in the SS presidency was from Cambodia and could hardly speak any English (which is why the president would always call me and never him). So I started to change things up. The president would call me, then I would call the First Counselor to give the thought about every other time, and he would get up and say something that no one could understand. But he was very sincere and a great guy.

That's my SS presidency story, not exactly the super cush calling I expected it to be.

That's a good story although in my ward I'm not even sure there is a ss presidency. Maybe I'll go for the part time visitor thing.