A Great Run!!

A lot is changeing with the new year and the first change for me was: I was released from my calling as Primary President after four years and two months on Sunday. Before that happened I gave my last sharing time, introducing the primary theme for the year: I am a Child of God. I was so emotional, I started with an activity where I held a mirror in a picture frame and hid the mirror so they could only see the back of the frame. I told the children that I had a picture of someone that is so special and that Heavenly Father and Jesus love so very much. I had each of the children come up one by one and look into the mirror and sit down. It was so moving to watch each child come up and peek around the frame and see there reflection staring back at them. As I watched each child do this, they all beamed from ear to ear after seeing who the picture was of. I imagined what it must be like to be our Heavenly Father and have so much love for each of us. I was so emotional I couldn't even talk after they were all finished coming up. This lesson hit me hard because I knew how special my time was with them and I had a part of me that didn't want to leave the primary after many many years of being in that room with so many sweet spirits!
 As I was being released I had a sad sad feeling come over me and the tears began to flow. I have never cried after being released from a calling, usually it's a great relief. As I looked around the room my presidency had the same reaction that I did. The hardest part was when Brynlee and Baylee asked why I was crying and found out that I wouldn't be in primary with them any more. They were both devastated and that made me only cry even more. There were many great Testimonies born that day and many were about what a great job we did as a primary. I also had many people come up to me and Thank me for my service. It was such a bitter sweet day. Change is good and I am so excited for the new primary president my dear friend Lisa Bitter. She is so excited and has so much love to give. It was great to serve with my friends; Tina Ottley, Lisa Shick, and Sarah Schaugaard. They are all great women who I look up to greatly! I am so grateful for my amazing family who showed up to church with me every Sunday a half hour early so I could set up for primary. I had many meetings, Baptisms, pack meetings, and time away from them to serve and my husband was a real trooper. I couldn't have done it without their support. I will always have a soft spot in my heart for primary, there is no other place like it!!