Alright ladies and gents. Its Friday and this Friday, I would like to introduce one of my favorite things.
LITTLE SISTER!!!!!
In her official blogging world debut!
When she told me this story I told her she HAD to do a guest post.
And so everyone..enjoy Little Sister
Be Happy Be Healthy!
SOOO when I called home after church
today and was relaying this story Stephanie insisted that I must guest post,
because it’s just too good to not share!
So here I am :)
BYU singles wards
are…. Interesting to say the least haha it’s taken a while for me to get used
to certain things, and I’m still not entirely – the dead silence because
there’s no children, the weekly mission calls and engagements, and every talk
is also a chance to get your name and face out there in hopes of a date.
In the church there’s a big push to date, to
get married – we’re big on families!
So singles wards = the
dating version of the hunger games.
The
ward directory is also the ward menu or the ward selectory as you date around
and get to know people.
Ward prayer is
also a prime opportunity to ask someone out, some wards even do what’s called
“date minute” where people can publicly ask whomever they would like out on a
date.
The first counselor in
my bishopric (leadership group of the congregation) has always been kind of known to joke about dating but it’s never
been that big of a deal and it fits his overall goofy demeanor. But this week in church my bishop had a go….
And it was well…. Interesting to say the least hahahaha
Now with the new semester we’ve had a lot of
new people move in and the process of handing out callings (assignments to help the congregation run smoothly) has been kind of
slow so he wanted to remind us that in the meantime to make sure and fulfill
our other “callings”. In the church we
also have what’s called home and visiting teaching – essentially you’re
assigned someone to teach and visit with every month to foster friendship and
make sure everyone gets taken care of.
So his reminder about this assignment was actually quite appropriate.
But then… he started
in on the dating. (it went something like this)
"Ladies why not take advantage
of home teaching to get a date he offered.
And future missionaries? You need
to practice making appointments – call up a girl this week and take her out on
a date.
In addition to your other
callings you also have this one – date.
Especially you return missionaries.
Make their day!"
More like freak them out…. But I’ll roll with
it ;)
