New Calling: Elders Quorum President
It is official. I am now the new elders quorum president of the Lethbridge First Ward. The stake presidency set us apart today.
The previous elders quorum president is moving this week and the bishop decided to put me in his place. Actually, he initially refused to give me up as ward clerk having been comfortable with how I ran things clerically. His counsellors managed to talk him into it.
I have known about it since the end of April even though the bishopric hid it from me until I was officially called by the stake presidency.
Things are different from the last time I was called as president. The quorum is smaller, I am one of the oldest in the quorum and I have learned a lot having served with a bishopric and a stake mission presidency.
I have a few ideas in mind regarding some initiatives we can implement to improve home teaching, strengthen quorum unity and grow the quorum. I meet with my counsellors this Tuesday to discuss these and we?˘‚Ǩ‚Ѣll see how receptive they are to them.
If anyone is interested, here are the callings I have had since I was married in 1995:
- elders quorum second counsellor
- elders quorum president
- ward mission leader
- stake mission secretary
- young men president
- ward clerk
- elders quorum president
Nope. No ward bulletin editor.
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Congratulations,
I was set apart as Elder’s Quorum president in my ward on May 1. Subsequently I was offered my dream job out of state on May 2. After prayer, fasting and counseling with my bishop, my wife and I decided to take it. We are leaving in three weeks. It was a very transitional presidency. I know god had a purpose in giving me this calling, but I don’t think I’ll ever fully understand it in mortality. Any thoughts?
23 May 2005 @ 10:57 | Permalink
Perhaps one of your counsellors will be the new president, and they needed to learn something from you.
23 May 2005 @ 13:36 | Permalink
Or Perhaps the new elders quorum president needed some extra time to get prepared.
28 Mar 2006 @ 19:41 | Permalink
Or perhaps your quorum needed you to be its president, even if only for a short time. Howard W. Hunter’s presidency was short; that didn’t make it meaningless.
29 Mar 2006 @ 09:20 | Permalink
[...] I was having my first PPI as elders quorum president with my bishop last night, and we were discussing all the older members of our ward who are assigned to elders quorum in the computer. They are not active and hold the priesthood office of elder, so the computer assigns them to our quorum. The oldest is 92. [...]
30 May 2006 @ 14:01 | Permalink
[...] Started my fourth year as elders quorum president [...]
1 Jan 2009 @ 11:33 | Permalink
I am a president too! what the heck…
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