“You probably already know what I’m about to say, but we would like to call you to serve in the bishopric for your ward.”
My husband nodded. He knew exactly what calling he was going to be getting that day. He had known it since the phone call to meet with the stake presidency member came.
Me on the other hand? I was SHOCKED.
My husband? A counselor in the bishopric? We just moved here three months ago. We know virtually no one in the ward yet. I’m super sick from my pregnancy. We’ve got one little girl so far, and then our little boy will be here in a few months. Did the Bishop even give him the right name for this calling? What if this was a mistake?
(And that’s only a small portion of the thoughts that ran through my mind.) 😉
But my husband knew.
And the stake presidency member knew that my husband knew.
How?
By the Spirit.
The Spirit actually had taught my heart a completely different lesson leading up to that day about not feeling resentful about time that my husband spends in his callings.
The Spirit didn’t need me to know what my husband’s calling would be. He just needed me to start preparing my heart to know that I could handle a big time commitment on my husband’s behalf.
I remembered a few year’s previously when I was waiting for a program acceptance as a part of the teaching program at BYU. I KNEW that I was getting accepted for a special student teaching program. Not in a cocky or prideful way, but because the Spirit told me I would get in and that we could make life plans around it.
I remembered when I applied to be an EFY counselor. I KNEW that I would get the job. Even when I initially did not get any contracts for weeks to work, I knew that somehow I would still get to work because the Spirit quietly told me and prepared me.
The Spirit can make things known to us that we have no other ways of knowing.
I’m not sure why we get the privilege of learning some things, and why others are left mysteries.
But God can tell us things through His Spirit.
Things that we usually just know we should keep to ourselves until a later date.
We can know through the manifestation of the Spirit.
Happy Studying!
-Cali Black
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I remember when I first joined the church when I was sixteen! We were a small branch, but every time a sister who was the Young Women’s President, and her family moved out and two or three families moved in, I knew which one of those sisters would be our new Young Women’s President!