[mcarp]

SallyM,

Congratulations. I wish I could be like you.

The “never seek nor decline a calling” has been so ingrained in me that I fight it all the time.

I’m on the verge of asking to be released from my current calling. The other night when I was stressing out over it, I went back in my journal and saw that when I was called I really didn’t want the calling and actually told the stake president I would have to think about it. I eventually told him yes, mostly because I hated the calling I was in at that time and looked at the new calling as an escape. Out of the frying pan, into the fire is the kind of escape it was…

I wish I had just said no. In fact, I can think of at least four callings that I should have said no to, including the second round in the bishopric when I knew it would make me crazy. (It did. You can attribute my craziness to being in the bishopric twice.)

Good luck in your struggle.

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