So, we've gone our whole marriage without having to speak in church. Our lucky streak has come to an end. We were called last Thursday night to speak in church THAT Sunday! So, there wasn't much time prepare. I don't know if that was a good thing, because then we had less time to feel nervous. So I was assigned to speak on the Restoration and Family, and Nathan was assigned to speak about Sustaining our Leaders. Oh, and I had to wonderful job of introducing our family. I just don't like talking for five minutes about ourselves. I tried to get Nathan to do it, but he said that because I'm first, I have to do it.
I tend to make jokes when I'm nervous (imagine that!). So, I hope that I didn't make a ridiculous first impression on our new ward that we will be in probably until our kid (kids) are in high school. We were assigned to speak for 30 minutes between the two of us. I spoke for 25 minutes (imagine that), and left a whopping 5 minutes for Nate. (He told me to try and take up a lot of time because he didn't really prepare very long for his talk! I worked on mine for 9 hours!) I think that next time we speak, I'm just going to get up there, bear my testimony and sit down.
