First Sunday

It's the first Sunday of the year. The first Sunday as the first ward using the building. The first Sunday at 9:00 in quite some time. This makes for some interesting confusion at the beginning of the second hour.

Specifically, somebody suddenly realized that we can't have Gospel Doctrine class in the chapel because the next ward will need to get in there before the end of the class. Oops. So...we move it to the second overflow. But that's right by the nursery (in the 3rd overflow) and that would interrupt the class. The Gospel Doctrine teacher made a unilateral decision to kick the nursery out and put them in the too-small normally-used nursery room. The newly-assigned nursery assistant (the nursery leader and her other assistant (husband and wife) were out sick) did a fabulous job of dealing with the whole thing and within 10 minutes we had them moved to another spot where they had more room. Oh...did I mention the primary president was out sick? Suz took care of nursery and by the end of the first hour, we had a plan in place for next week and the rest of the year. Yay! Flexibility is the key!

The sunbeam classroom was filled with chairs from the Relief Society room. What? ARGH! Richard (the new sunbeam teacher!) and I moved them all out in the hallway and got his room ready for the new sunbeams. He escorted them from nursery and we made a big deal of welcoming them into primary. They had a GREAT day! They went home with crowns that they had decorated and huge smiles on their faces. (They're teacher did too.)

While the presidency was running around like chickens putting out the nursery and sunbeam fires, the rest of the primary was sitting in their chairs, listening to piano music and talking quietly and reverently. I was so proud of them! Fast Sunday at 10:00 am - they were tired and hungry? ;-)

Even though we got off to a rough start, I think we ended on the positive side. All the kids got a lesson and felt our love. In the end, isn't that what primary is all about?