My mom is my visiting teaching partner.
I am not amused.
Thanks God.
Such an inspired choice.
No REALLY!
There is nothing in the universe going to make it HARDER for me to do a job I really don't like than FORCING me to do it with my mom.
SERIOUSLY!
Because I don't desperately need and want a female friend, around my age, maybe in similar circumstances, to hang out and bond with. Someone to rescue me from the insanity that is my home life ... a few moments to relax ... get away from my life and difficulties ... open up with people and be honest about stuff ... vent.
Yeah. I have a blog ... who needs real, tangible people? Right, All Knowing One?
Who the blazes do you suppose, in all Your Wisdom, is going to watch my kids so I can GO visit teach? Greg? Yeah? Because he is always around to help out. So I get to waste my babysitting co-op coupons to spend MORE time with ...
Will I burn in hell if I just call the RS President and opt out en-freaking-tirely? No one visits me anyway, so that lifts the burden of me for two other sisters ... they can just as easily not visit my sisters, too.
(so frustrating)
Like my Grandma Anderson used to say, "You're not funny McGee!"
5 Brilliant Bits of Inspiration:
Just tell the RS president your situation. Callings are 10% inspiration, 90% desperation anyway. Yes, we should respect our leaders, but we don't have to believe every word they say or every decision they make is dictation from the Almighty. She probably assigned you two to work together because she thought it would decrease your stress, since the person you'd have to work out your schedule with would already be in your house. Tell her its not helpful and ask her to change you.
I'm with Amy. It's our responsibility to know our limits. The RS people probably never looked at it from your perspective but would likely get it immediately if you told them.
Mine finally gave me an assignment that I might not fail- I have one person and she's only around for a few months per year!
Your situation sounds like the time they called the Hubs and I to be the Nursery Leaders. I would enjoy that calling NOW (since I don't have littles anymore) but getting it when we had 19 month old TWINS was pretty crappy. I was already doing double duty all week. The LAST thing I wanted to do was go to Church and have a gazillion more. I needed a BREAK, not something that would break me.
As I understand, sometimes inspiration is "this is exactly what should be done" and sometimes "that will be fine." I would ask your R.S. pres if she felt strongly impressed that you should work with your mom, and then explain your circumstance.
I ditto Amy and Cynthia's comments. I hope you get this worked out quickly and easily.
Seriously, you don't even need to say why but tell the RS pres you will not visit teach with your mom. And I hope you both have seperate visting teachers? Sometimes the RS pres will give family members in the same house the same teachers. I've been a clueless RS pres before so I've made these mistakes before and I would have loved it if someone had told me that the arrangement I set up would not work. I'd rather have that than the partnership not going at all.
TELL HER!!!
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