A stake leader recently texted me out of the blue asking if I would be willing to meet with him over zoom to “get to know me”. It took me by surprise as it has been a long time since I showed my face in any church. I decided to accept the meeting just to humor him, and within a minute of the zoom meeting he was asking me if I would accept a calling as a stake clerk or secretary type role. I just replied “no”, and we sat there in silence for some time.

He definitely did not know what to say, and asked me if he could help me repent in order to be worthy to hold a calling. I told him something along the lines of “no, I’m worthy, I just don’t want a calling”.

The meeting wrapped up pretty awkwardly and I’m back to my daily business, still with no “calling”. What an audacious title, as if smelling dirty diapers for 2 hours is a “calling”.