Giving Missionaries Rides by Assignment

[The_Tick]

Hah. Try being the WML.

This is daily stuff.

[Pheidippides]

This is a silly request. We constantly have to remind the Elders in our Branch to go easy on the members. I tell the Elders that I know they can't possibly fathom in their one-track missionary minds right now how members wouldn't be willing to drop everything to help missionary work at any given moment. But when they finish school and have families, they will understand having multiple responsibilities better.

This is an understandable attitude in gung-ho 19 year old missionaries, but it's sad that some older leaders have the same attitiudes.

This will get better when they are 18 and the sisters are 19.

[Sleeping in EQ]

From Brother EQP:

Well done, sir.

[OceanBlue]

We used to have elders, but last month we got two about-as-interesting-as-uncooked-elbow-macaroni sister missionaries who don't ever ask any questions and give terse responses to your questions in a conversation. I got this email from my EQP this morning:



Cheraw is about 40 mins away. They have a car of their own. They are assigning priesthood holders to go with their wives, or get their wives to drive them. This is coming from the stake president.

We hear something similar here in N.C. We sometimes get request for us to drive them two plus hours into Virginia. Nothing is assigned because most things assigned to beach people don't get done. I am always surprised when some faithful Saint gives up a day to drive missionaries some place hours away. I love our Ward but I have as little to do with our stake as possible.

[Donuthole]

Hah. Try being the WML.

I'll pass, thanks!

[Pheidippides]

Hah. Try being the WML.

This is daily stuff.

This blows my mind. When I was on the mish, I never asked members for things like this. I think once we asked for a ride to a ward activity that was way out in the sticks and it was arranged accordingly. Otherwise I either walked or bikes everywhere I went.

[Omaha 680]

Hah. Try being the WML.

This is daily stuff.

Worst callings in a unit:

#1 Bishop/BP
#2 RS Pres
#3 EQP
#4 WML

Everything else is tolerable. Except maybe Scoutmaster.

[The_Douger]

I was the cub scout master for a while.

That was pretty lame.

[Paperback Writer]

Worst callings in a unit:

#1 Bishop/BP
#2 RS Pres
#3 EQP
#4 WML

Everything else is tolerable. Except maybe Scoutmaster.

IMO, Scoutmaster easily places #4, perhaps as high as #2. A lot depends on how well a ward supports its troop...thus the #2 ranking.

[Indy Coug]

Worst callings in a unit:

#1 Bishop/BP
#2 RS Pres
#3 EQP
#4 WML

Everything else is tolerable. Except maybe Scoutmaster.

Unless the church gets REALLY progressive, I've already exhausted that list.

[San Juan Sun]

Unless the church gets REALLY progressive, I've already exhausted that list.

Did you enjoy being the RS Prez?

[Indy Coug]

Did you enjoy being the RS Prez?

No. It was tantamount to parenting a bunch of whiny beyotches.

[Moliere]

Worst callings in a unit:

#1 Bishop/BP
#2 RS Pres
#3 EQP
#4 WML

Everything else is tolerable. Except maybe Scoutmaster.

WML is nothing if you know how to say "no". YMP is up there as well, but not as high as scoutmaster. I'd put them like this:

1. Bishop
2. Scoutmaster
3. RSP
4. EQP
5. YMP
6. Primary Pres.
7. WML

The YWP doesn't even come close ot making this list because they get so much freakin' help it's not even funny. Moms literally trample each other to help out in YWs whereas it takes a lot of coercion and planning to get dads to help out in YMs.

[Indy Coug]

Scoutmaster is the one calling I would with absolute certainty turn down.

[Omaha 680]

WML is nothing if you know how to say "no". YMP is up there as well, but not as high as scoutmaster. I'd put them like this:

1. Bishop
2. Scoutmaster
3. RSP
4. EQP
5. YMP
6. Primary Pres.
7. WML

The YWP doesn't even come close ot making this list because they get so much freakin' help it's not even funny. Moms literally trample each other to help out in YWs whereas it takes a lot of coercion and planning to get dads to help out in YMs.

I will not be showing your last paragraph to my wife. She has been YWP in our branch for the last three years, and has been apalled on several occasions how disinterested her girls' moms are in their lives in general, let alone their participation in YW. They see the church at best as a baby-sitting and transportation service for their girls.

In a traditional unit I would agree with you though.