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We call it callings, but essentially the bishop and his counselors pray for guidance and extend the calls to those they feel should do them. I'm one of various Sunday School teachers, but I'm the only one teaching the main adult class now. They've had two at a time before.
I suppose it could be considered volunteering, though. We can certainly say yes or no to a calling, though most do. But no one in our congregation gets paid for what they do, including the bishop and the rest of the leadership. They put in quite a few hours a week, not including Sundays, and more if there are activities of some kind.
how do the ones doing this work fulltime make money then if they don't get paid?
yes we call that callings also.
Well, no one in our congregation (they're called wards) works their calling full-time. They all have regular jobs they or their spouse do to support their family. It's truly a lay ministry.
Now on the level of the president/prophet and apostles of the church, they receive substantial yearly stipends for their work, but they are in it full-time and nearly always until they die once called. The church also has a very large worldwide support staff that handle things like budgets, building, security, run the universities and schools, seminaries, institutes, and so on. But the vast majority of all the ecclesiastical work is part-time and unpaid. Except for the missionaries, who are full-time, and pay to be out there doing it. :)
but the local pastor doesn't get paid even though it's alot of hours?
Nope. The bishop is not paid. Nor his counselors, or any of the other leaders, who can put in quite a bit of time, if not more than he would a week. Depends a lot on the needs of the ward and whether or not he's the only one who can take care of it.
is the bishop the leader of the local church like a pastor in a church like a methodist? I mean is that what the leader is called?
It depends on the size of the congregation, but yes, a bishop is a local leader for a ward, while a president would be the local leader for a branch. Both have the same functions really, just for more or less people.
I don't know how they compare to a pastor in the Methodist church, though a lot of what they are ultimately responsible for is delegated to different leaders and the members at large that a pastor might take on themselves.
Like, there's no one person or only two or three, maybe, that might give a sermon. Everyone has a chance to talk at some point, including children and youth. In fact, the bishop may only speak once a year at a ward conference. Bishops do take turns conducting our sacrament meetings (which is when everyone is together) with their counselors, and might have something to announce or talk about on occasion.