I was sacrament meeting organist, Relief Society/primary pianist, Relief Society poster maker, and young women sports coach. That last calling kept me in that ward as long as I was there. Awesome!

Right now, I am the primary chorister and will soon be sustained as the compassionate service leader.

No i don’t held multiple church callings and/or responsibilities at one time. So i can’t realize it. Anyway thanks for sharing this in your post with us.

Bill has always had only one calling, except for when he’s been a district thing in scouting along with a stake calling. I haven’t kept track of that.

Now me, that’s a different story. I’m sorry, but I think women in the church are grievously over-worked. I did the ward newsletter (and I put my heart into it), taught primary, and was the person who put stuff in the paper for the ward also—and did my visiting teaching all at the same time. You know, that was craziness on my part. You young girls, if I had to do it over, I’d have done less while I was raising my kids. You wouldn’t believe how expendable you are.

Now I’m one of those old people who feels she’s put in her time and I’m spending my Sundays reading the paper.

Well, my dad was on the district council and was a bishop at the same time (they called him as a bishop and had him sustained when he wasn’t home, told him about it later and when they set him apart told him he wasn’t being released from the council, which would make it easier for him to have someone in both roles at meetings).

Quite the opposite. I get to teach RS four times a year. Period. Although today I realized that one man in our ward teaches Gospel Doctrine, and the high priests’ group, and is the ward organist. In a ward with no Primary and no YW, there aren’t many positions for women and we have to split up and share the few there are. Bummer.

We we moved into our new ward I became:

Ward Organist
Choir pianist
Primary (teacher first 2 years, then chorister 3 years)
Ward Missionary

Then they added:

Cub Scout den leader
Cub Scout Committee chair
Cub Scout Committee (by default since we only have a chair, me)

They dropped the primary chorister almost 2 years ago, but I have retained the other positions since. We have a relatively small ward, but it is growing. I was a VT until two years ago and they gave me a writing route.

I guess it wouldn’t be that bad except I also have a special needs child that has at times in the past required residential treatment and other treatments up to three times a week.

Ward/RS pianist, RS teacher, and FHE co-chair. RS teacher was def the best.

When we lived on the east coast I was the Stake music chairperson, Ward choir director, 1st counselor in the Primary and visiting teacher. Usually, when I get a music calling… I get doubled up: ward choir accompanist & ward organist, primary pianist & ward music chair, primary chorister & choir director… I finally moved to Idaho and told the Bishop not to give me a music calling.

I am currently a Ward missionary (and Married to the ward mission leader which makes it more of a responsibility sometimes than it otherwise would be), Advancement Chairperson for Scouts (which is a WAY bigger calling than I thought it would be), and an assistant Enrichment leader. To be honest I’m kind of hoping for one big calling so I can quit doing 3.

I loved being Enrichment Coordinator and Gospel Doctrine Teacher at the same time. I was called to Enrichment about 2 months after the Gospel Doctrine calling and the Bishop told me that they could release me from teaching SS. I begged to keep the Gospel Doctrine calling, because I love it.

At one point last year, I was the Ward Clerk, 1st Counselor in the Elders Quorum Presidency, and a stake financial auditor. It took almost 18 months to widdle it down to just clerk, although I was pushing for just stake financial auditor.