Bishops

Today I am especially grateful for Bishops. I had my testimony that they are men called of God strengthened today.
About two weeks ago I had a lady in my ward call me and ask if I could make a slideshow for her in-law's big 50th wedding anniversary bash at the end of the month. Of course I said yes (I never say no) because Zachary was about to leave on his mission and I figured it would be something to keep me busy and distracted. She told me that she wanted to pay me (bonus!) so I was excited to have a little extra money for my birthday or to put away for Christmas or whatever. Well a few days after that, I found out that at the end of the month, I would have to start paying on my student loans (BOOOO), and hadn't planned for it, so I was going to be short just for this first month... but wait! I had said yes to this paying slideshow job! Perfect! Turns out, the slideshow was going to be $50 shy of what I needed for my student loans, which is exactly what I had to put toward them! So perfect.
So I put the slideshow together, and called the clients to come over before I started burning the 25 copies of the DVD that they were ordering, and they loved it. As they were leaving, they told me that they were really glad Bishop had mentioned my name when they had been talking about putting together a slideshow. *Insert shock face here* Bishop? Yeah, didn't we mention that before? Bishop is the one who gave us your name to call.
I don't know why on earth Bishop would have given them my name. It was definitely the promptings of the Spirit. There is no other way that of all the tech saavy people, photographers, and videographers in our ward and the ward that we split with a few years back he would have given them my name. No way. The only really decent slideshow I had ever done was the one for Zack's farewell.
I know that Bishops are men called of God to lead and guide and care for the well being of their congregations. It was really nice to experience that first hand, especially with everything that's been going on in my life lately. I love this Gospel. I love my Bishop. I'm so glad he listened to the promptings of the Spirit.