Recently I decided to try to find and write to my old Young Women Leaders. I don’t know if it is being a young women president and finally realizing how much goes into everything or finding out one of my leaders is fighting Breast Cancer. Maybe it is a little of both. They were such a HUGE part of my life. From Girls Camp to Wednesday activities, Personal Progress, Dairy Queen runs, Road shows and Lake Blaine get togethers. . . my leaders were the best! They helped mold and shape me and I know I listened to them more than my own mother at times. I loved Wednesday nights.
So now, here I am partly in charge of 8 beautiful young women’s lives. It has been a enormous undertaking. All those times my leaders tried to help me stretch, overcome, think out of the box and be the very best I could be are now coming into play. I now long to see these cute girls make the correct choices, strengthen their testimonies or maybe just find them. I want them to see how much potential they have. I get so sad when they don’t come to church or to activities. I find myself asking the question, “did my Young Women leaders feel this same way?” I would have to answer yes, only because they were so involved in all of our lives and they showed us every time they saw us and I know they prayed for us every day.
I understand now and I would love to give a shout out to all of them. Thanks to Facebook I have been able to find many of them and give them a thank you. Whenever I get back to Montana I always look out for those who are still there and give them a hug, now it will be followed with a heart felt THANK YOU! I am emotional thinking of what lays ahead for me, and I want so much to be the best leader for these girls, like mine were for me. So thank you, thanks you, thank you! I love you all and I wish only the best for you all. And Nora, you’re the strongest of us all so keep fighting and my prayers are with you.
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