Tomorrow, August 20th marks the 2.5 year mark for Bishop Spencer. We obviously do not know exactly when he will be released and are feeling fine with how things are but if they were to follow the standard 5 year timeline then he would be halfway done! Things are going pretty well for him. We just got a good group of new families in our ward which has been awesome. It put him in a position to have surplus people who are able and wiling to hold callings which is exciting and bumped up our primary numbers for sure. We were holding pretty steady at 6 - 8 kids in nursery and now have 12. The first week in October will mark 2 years for me in nursery which is a pretty good amount of time. The sister I have been serving with reached 2 years in July. We both have been happy to be in there. They are in the process of moving and it will be sad to see them go. Nursery feels like a good, simple, safe calling for me to have while Mark is serving as Bishop. It won't last forever but is has been a really good fit. A majority of the new people who moved in plan to stick around long term which will be really nice. I was talking to a friend earlier this Summer and she brought up next year as an election year and asked Mark if it was possible for our ward to have a no politics at church kind of rule. We have some pretty extreme/diverse viewpoints in our ward and there have been some definite losing of the spirit moments which are hard to navigate. Especially for Mark. It will not be fun and will probably be a long election season. 2020 might be his hardest year as Bishop. It would be lovely if this could happen. People can and should talk all they want about how they feel about elections with people who want to do that but it does not need to happen at our church building and especially not at the pulpit. But how would one tactfully bring that up and would the people who struggle with it even get it? I don't know. I don't envy Mark that conversation. Maybe I should just stay in nursery until 2021.
But, to celebrate the halfway point we had cake! We invited the Strubles (1st counselor) and Kwon's (2nd counselor) over and had a lovely time visiting with them. We so appreciate their faith and willingness to serve. Lydia and Jared had fun with the Kwon's kids. I need to work harder to get Lydia together with Jane. They really have fun together. Jane turns 8 in September so they are only 3 calendar months apart but she is in the class above Lydia's. There are so many people in the ward who help in so many ways we are very lucky. I made a new carrot cake (with cream cheese frosting) recipe and was really happy with how it turned out. We hadn't had carrot cake in a really long time and it was delicious. We joked about saving the other half of the cake and eating it when he is released but it was too good so we ate it all.
Mike Struble, Mark Spencer, Young Kwon
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