First off I love and sustain my new bishop and I know that callings ultimately come from the Lord and neither him nor I but I just have a question.
I'm the EQ Pres and recently the bishop informed me that he was going to need my Seceratary to be released for another calling. I was kinda bummed because our Secretary was really helpful to us but happily obliged. He was then called as a ward mission leader (in a BYU student ward with no non-members, which doesn't diminish the callings inportance). This has happened twice more now. I approached him last Sunday about filling my Secretary role with a EQ teacher and he tells me "Oh sorry, we're planning on calling him for something in the ward too, find someone else".
Now I know that in the stake level, someone can be called up and the ward essentially loses them, but is that also how it works in the ward? He keeps telling us "There are so many great people! So many people need callings! Give more people callings!" but it seems like he only calls people who already have callings in the Elders Quorum.
Is that totally normal though? Please don't get caught up in the technicalities of my question. Try and find the general meaning behind my question and, if you don't mind, do your best to respond to it.
Thanks!
