Posted by:
iburiedzelph
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Date: December 12, 2018 04:25PM
When I was in mission preparation mode many years ago, my bishop was trying to find a way to keep me as busy as possible so I wouldn't start to look for warm, nice-smelling, curvy distractions prior to leaving for the MTC. He called me to his office one day and levied a calling to me. Said I could be the buzzer ringer to let people know that the time was up for the meetings after sacrament meeting. I thought "Hell, A calling... But it could be worse. This will take just a few seconds each Sunday and I don't have to spend Saturday night prepping for anything." So I accepted.
Three weeks later, I was unceremoniously relieved of my calling. Turns out that the point of the buzzer was simply to let teachers know that they are approaching or over the time limit, not to enforce it. Joke's on me — I thought they wanted people to not go over and, from my own experience, I was not a fan of an already-long three-hour block of meetings going an extra twenty minutes because people couldn't stop chatting. I had assumed that the others would be as well.
I had been giving a couple of rapid-fire rings for the 5 minute warning and then, when class should be out, leaning against the buzzer until class actually let out. This may or may not have gone on up to 30-45 seconds each Sunday. Believe it or not, by the end of the third week, classes were back on schedule. Was this not the point?
The Lord's desire to stick to a timeline was subverted by desires to attack the messenger and so ended the my time in that role.
What was your best calling ever?