Thoughts about My Calling as a Pianist

It's been 3 months since I became a pianist in Primary. I know many songs and where they are in the book now. I still cannot say that I play well, but started to really enjoy my calling.

My background is this: my mom has always taught the piano at home as far as I can remember. But I have probably taken lessons from her maybe 10 times. I was busy with other things and when I injured my finger at 8, I completely stopped. I always heard the sound of the piano at home, but playing the piano wasn't my thing.

Then after I got married at 25, I was invited to my friend's house. When I saw her piano by the door, I really missed having a piano at home. But it was not until 2 years later that I found a beautiful piano at a yard sale. How I missed the sound of the piano! Having a piano completed my HOME.

Once in a while, I asked Jacob, "Do you think I can become a Primary pianist, maybe 5 years down the road?" Jacob always said, "Yes. Keep practicing." Ha! 5 years? I got called in after 2 years. If you add up all the years I played the piano, it is not long. The first 4 weeks, it was a miserable struggle.

In the past 3 months, I played at baptism, Christmas program, Primary program, violin accompaniment, choir practice, and Primary for 1 hour every week. It still makes me nervous to play in public, but I finally started to enjoy it.

It was especially fun to play it for our family friend, the Nelson's 5-year-old girl playing the violin today. She is a very beautiful and talented girl and she is so small! I really enjoyed people's reactions :D I was very thankful for her grandparents to pick me as her pianist, because they did not know how well I was going to play. Her mother and my good friend, Jenny, did a wonderful job putting everything together for us. I was very thankful for the wonderful opportunity.


Here's an insert. I have been taking a BYU class on Doctrine and Covenants. I just thought the following was very interesting and "challenging."

D&C 101: 6 The Sins of the Saints in Zion: Note that the sins committed by the Saints in Zion do not include murder, adultery, fornication, stealing, lying, or cheating. But these people were trying to live the law of consecration, and jarrings, contentions, envyings, and strifes are serious infractions of that law. Remember that such sins were not found among Enoch's people nor among the Nephites after the Savior's appearance to them. These are the very sins that will keep us from establishing Zion.