I will conquer my fear!

So you can tell it's been a slow week when your post has a title like that. Oh well, on with the post. Our family has been here in Urbana for about 6 months or so, and that whole time I went without having a calling. I had enjoyed being able to sit through Sunday School and Relief Society without a care in the world, basking in the spirit of the meetings. Notice that I've been using the past tense. Yes, it's true, the inevitable has happened. I have been given a calling. But not just any calling...a teaching calling! Last Sunday, our family hadn't been at church for more than 5 minutes when a member of the bishopric came over and asked if they could extend a calling to me. I said sure, thinking they would call me to be on the activities committee or something. But no such luck. I got called to be a Gospel Doctrine teacher. Let's just say...not what I was expecting. I have only had one teaching calling since I graduated from high school, and that was a class of 6-7 year olds. Teaching a class of your peers is COMPLETELY different. But I'm not usually one to turn something down like that, so I dutifully started preparing my first lesson. I was feeling pretty good about it for the first couple of days, but every time I went back to work on it a little, doubt started creeping in more and more. By the time this morning rolled around, I was a nervous wreck. Of course, my wonderful husband kept reassuring me that everything would be fine, but that did very little to calm my nerves (thanks for trying, honey!) Luckily, my lesson didn't completely bomb, and no one but Bill could tell that I was as nervous as I was. Of course, after the lesson was over, I spent the next hour going through my mind what went wrong and what I could have done differently. And I'm sure it'll take a while before I feel completely comfortable in this new calling, but hopefully I will be able to face and conquer this fear. And hopefully next time I'll have something a little more fun and interesting to post!