Sister Todd, Young Women president: Bishop, may I suggest that we include in that discussion the benefits and the blessings of both the Duty to God program and the Personal Progress for our young women. And then, find us a Sunday evening that we can have a devotional, and bring that to our bishopric meeting, and we’ll make a decision.īrother James, ward executive secretary: All right. They love your input.īishop Richards: Well, brethren, I guess we’re on, and Brother Reyes, our ward clerk, I’m hoping you’re making some notes here so we can remember these commitments and assignments that we’re putting together.Īnd Brother James, why don’t you do this: If you would, look and find the next available fifth-Sunday that has not already been planned and schedule this joint meeting. I know my children love coming to the devotionals, and they love it when there’s time for questions and answers with you, Bishop. Sister Jones: I had the same thought this week. So may I suggest that we think about scheduling one of those where you can talk about standards, modesty, dating, studying the scriptures. They like meeting with you in a personal setting, and we haven’t had one of those for a while. I’m speaking now as a father, as opposed to a group leader, but my children love the Sunday night devotional meetings that you have. And then with the ideas that we glean, I’m sure we could make up a plan to strengthen our teenagers and increase their spirituality as well as ours.īrother Glouzer, high priests group leader: Bishop, in addition to meeting with the parents, I think it would be very important to meet with the youth. We could plan a fifth-Sunday joint priesthood and Relief Society meeting and address this topic.īishop, if you led the discussion and you shared the ideas from this ward council today, you could get the parents participating and get their perspective of their teenagers. I wonder if the parents realize some of the challenges their teenage children are facing. Sister Bennion, Relief Society president: As a mother of teenage daughters, I worry about that too. So let me just ask this question and throw it out to the group: What are some things that we can do to increase the spirituality of the youth in our ward? And so we decided that we would ponder and pray about it this week and come back prepared to counsel together.Īnd so I hope you’ve had a chance to do that. And as we discussed it last week, we found that our seminary attendance was down a little, and there was a general sense in the ward council that perhaps our youth are struggling with their testimonies a bit and with living some of the standards. So please, in our discussions today, feel free to contribute and make an expression as you feel moved upon by the Spirit.Īs you remember, we started a discussion about the general level of spirituality and the commitment level of our youth. So I’d ask you to quickly look over the calendar and tell me if there are any corrections or changes that you would like to make.ĭoes it look good? Then we’ll accept it as our calendar between now and the end of the year and we’ll move forward with it.īrothers and sisters, before we start our discussions today, I just wanted to remind you that my impression has been, having watched us as a ward council, that we make better decisions when we all participate, regardless of what the topic is or our particular calling in the ward. And I appreciate you coordinating with him so that we don’t have to spend much time in the meeting today going over that. Now, Brother James has distributed to you the ward calendar that has our dates between now and the end of the year. We’d like to start our meeting today by calling on Sister Jones, our Primary president, who will give us an opening prayer.īishop Richards: Thank you, Sister Jones, I appreciate that. We, as a bishopric, appreciate you being here and on time. Tom Perry: Next, brothers and sisters, we have invited a group of currently serving members of ward councils to model for us some examples of how a ward council can effectively work together to meet the needs of their members and accomplish the purposes of the Church.īishop Richards: Brothers and sisters, welcome to this week’s ward council meeting.
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