Talking.....Good or Bad?

Both.  Talking when you want to is definitely a good thing, but talking because a member of the bishopric calls ands asks you to talk in sacrament meeting is bad.  I am not a good public speaker, and get those little butterflies in my stomach every time that I have to.   However, prayer helps, a lot.  As I was sitting up on the stand I said a quick prayer asking my Heavenly Father to calm my nerves and help the message in my talk to get through, and asked that it wouldn't be as bad as I was expecting it to be.  When the time came for me to give my talk, I was the first speaker by the way, I still had butterflies, but once I got up to the pulpit, they were gone.  I had no butterflies what-so-ever, and suddenly standing up there and speaking was not so bad.  My talk must have went great because people kept complimenting me on it, and my once Young Women's president, who is now in the stake Young Women's, told me that I had so much confidence up there.  To which my reply was, ummmm, no I didn't.  She then told me that I looked and sounded like I did.  Wow, I may not have had the nerves I had before, but I most certainly was not confident.  Then when we were home my dad told me that a couple in our ward told him that they were very impressed with my talk.  So, long story short, I guess giving a talk is not that bad, however, I will not just volunteer to give one.