silvermoon383
Well-Known Member
Well guys, it's been a long time since I've really posted anything here, my work is never done (and according to my manager, we (engineering specificially) have been behind schedule since February of last year so I've had 9 hour days for 14 months straight now (including the nearly 3 weeks where I literally sat at my desk twiddling my thumbs because there were no projects for me to work on.)) But that's not why I'm writing now.
About a week or 2 before Thanksgiving I got a call from the Stake presidency, they wanted me to be the clerk for the new YSA branch they'd just formed. No big deal for me, I was clerk back in my old YSA branch in college so it was nothing new, and in all honesty, I was fading out of the family ward I've been in. There just wasn't anything for me there except sit and listen. But now I'm back in the middle of it all, and am one of the most experienced people in the branch, a huge blessing to the branch presidency (all former bishopric and/or high council members mind you). But that's where the similarity ends. Sometimes it feels like I'm an outsider still, because I'm still single, but the oldest one in the room (excluding the branch presidency).
Being 33 now, I'm well above the typical cutoff age for YSA, and knowing this I've been viewing this calling as an "out-of-unit" assignment (similar to High Council or other stake callings where you spend most of your time not in your home branch/ward). Yet apparently I'm the only one who holds to the standard age policy. When I asked the stake presidency during my interview that my records would indeed remain with the family ward they were taken aback, they thought they would transfer over (something I'd never seen before in either of the two previous YSA branches I've been in). And even without that, few seem to remember that I'm older than 99% of the branch, and keep suggesting many of the young women for me to date, and so far the oldest has been around 24 (sometimes it's a good thing to have access to full records
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Sorry, this sounds like a rant but it's not intended to be. I love my calling, it gives me something to do for the Church, and I feel like it was someone watching over me, cause if I was still in the family ward I'm sure I'd've been going on almost 6 months with minimal Sunday attendance. I'm making good friends with the YSAs, even though I've been keeping my distance. Still, it feels weird being the oldest in the room, and by more than a few months.
About a week or 2 before Thanksgiving I got a call from the Stake presidency, they wanted me to be the clerk for the new YSA branch they'd just formed. No big deal for me, I was clerk back in my old YSA branch in college so it was nothing new, and in all honesty, I was fading out of the family ward I've been in. There just wasn't anything for me there except sit and listen. But now I'm back in the middle of it all, and am one of the most experienced people in the branch, a huge blessing to the branch presidency (all former bishopric and/or high council members mind you). But that's where the similarity ends. Sometimes it feels like I'm an outsider still, because I'm still single, but the oldest one in the room (excluding the branch presidency).
Being 33 now, I'm well above the typical cutoff age for YSA, and knowing this I've been viewing this calling as an "out-of-unit" assignment (similar to High Council or other stake callings where you spend most of your time not in your home branch/ward). Yet apparently I'm the only one who holds to the standard age policy. When I asked the stake presidency during my interview that my records would indeed remain with the family ward they were taken aback, they thought they would transfer over (something I'd never seen before in either of the two previous YSA branches I've been in). And even without that, few seem to remember that I'm older than 99% of the branch, and keep suggesting many of the young women for me to date, and so far the oldest has been around 24 (sometimes it's a good thing to have access to full records
)Sorry, this sounds like a rant but it's not intended to be. I love my calling, it gives me something to do for the Church, and I feel like it was someone watching over me, cause if I was still in the family ward I'm sure I'd've been going on almost 6 months with minimal Sunday attendance. I'm making good friends with the YSAs, even though I've been keeping my distance. Still, it feels weird being the oldest in the room, and by more than a few months.
