I've been thinking alot lately about my calling and exactly what it is that Heavenly Father needed me to learn/do.
I had a neat experience yesterday that I just wanted to share, but first.... I came into this calling with an absolute love for the YW of my ward and a strong desire to serve in Young Womens. I couldn't wait to start doing all of these great things with them and for them. I had a vision of the things that I thought would be good for them. The problem was... that I kept hearing "this is their program they need to run it." In my mind they were talking about TEENAGERS. How in the heck were they supposed to run the program? There are those that feel this means just turn it over to them and let it fall if that's what happens but they'll learn in the process. I felt like I would tell them how to do things and show them how to do things and they could learn by having experiences that impressed them enough that those messages would stick. Now I feel that both of those ways of thought are wrong.
So on to my experience yesterday. Our new Beehive class presidency was being set apart. I was listening to the words that were being said to these girls as they were being set apart as LEADERS of the Beehive class. Things started flashing through my mind of what I learned a leader was and what she was to do while I was in the RS presidency. All of the sudden it came to me that my job is to train these Young Women to be the leaders of the church some day... of their own families, of their Relief Society, of their own wards Young Womens! I realized that I don't need to just turn everything over to them and let it fall (like the other oppinion), or that I shouldn't be doing it FOR them... but that I needed to use them and instruct them and show them. A flood of ideas came to me on how I can teach the president her responsibilities, the counselors theirs and the secretary hers. I want the secretary to realize that she's not the "last" in the presidency but a vital part that can make or break a presidency. I suddenly became more excited about helping these girls learn how to fulfill their own callings than I was for me putting on "great activities"!
I am so grateful that Heavenly Father is patient and has waited for me to finally get this! I am so grateful that I've had the opportunity to serve WITH these incredible young women. Each one of them is so different and each one of them has so much to offer. I have truly been blessed in this calling.
