Sunday School Roll

[oliblish]

The last calling I accepted was Second Councilor in the Sunday School Presidency. My job was mainly to distributor rolls to all of the classes. I would go to the office and collect the rolls and then pass them out to each teacher at the beginning of the class. They would then slide them under the door and I would go around the building and pick them up. I would usually have to track one or two of them down when someone would walk off with one of them or misplace it.

I would then put them back in the drawer in the Clerk's office and repeat it the next week. At the end of the quarter I would get new rolls from the President and I would start over. It was a good job for me as a non-believer because it gave me an excuse for missing Gospel Doctrine class, and then I would go home before Priesthood Meeting started. My other responsibility was to clean up the chapel before the next ward came in.

After doing this for several quarters I finally asked the SSP what was done with these rolls. I was assuming they he would look through them and maybe calculate attendance percentages or activity rates or something. "We throw them away" was his response. I was kind of surprised but not really surprised at the same time.

How many things in the church are just busywork and have no real purpose or value other than to provide members with something to do? I guess they want you to feel important or just to give you a reason to show up on Sunday.

[Thoughtful]

Quarterly the rolls are added up -- people who haven't attended at all are counted and reported as not attending on the MLS. Not by name, just by numbers.