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Building Empathy in Elders Quorum | A How I Lead Interview with Weston Robinson

Leading Saints Podcast

Leading Saints

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Weston Robinson was born and raised in Las Vegas and served in the Ecuador Quito mission. He has since served as an elders quorum president twice, as a Sunday school teacher, an executive secretary, and currently as second counselor in a bishopric. He has a bachelor's degree in psychology from UNLV and has worked in manufacturing, grading and demolition with heavy equipment, interior design, and as a light and sound tech for a local comedy production group. He currently works with a law firm and will begin his first year at UNLV’s Boyd Law School next month. He is married to Kyra Ah Quin and his hobbies include reading, writing, anything outdoors, and lifting heavy things. Highlights 02:50 Introduction to Weston Robinson 06:20 Weston shares his experience as an elders quorum president 07:50 Principle 1: Striving to repent daily, our connection with the Spirit is enhanced and that allows us to discern the needs and concerns of others 10:00 Repentance is more than just changing behavior. It’s turning to Christ and seeing ways we can center our lives on Him. 10:30 How can we repent day to day? 11:50 Weston shares a story and applies it to seeing the needs of others 14:00 Discerning the needs of others requires a lot of conversations. You need to be approachable and open. 16:15 Principle 2: Be a mentor 23:30 Don’t be afraid of being a mentor despite age difference and different life experiences. Know what resources are available and be prepared to know what to share. 24:15 Principle 3: If an elders quorum meeting is properly facilitated then the quorum will engage and the connection will deepen 26:10 How can we facilitate better elders quorum meetings? Can you let go of your outline or notes and lean into the discussion and the organic nature of the Spirit? 28:50 Ask questions and be ok with the silence 29:30 Remember that it’s a quorum meeting not a Sunday School lesson. It’s a place for people to gather and to discuss more sensitive topics. 31:00 Weston shares his personal journey as an elders quorum president. It wasn’t a perfect storybook experience. It was messy and full of ups and downs. Luckily he had brothers to lean on and reached out to his leaders. 40:00 It might sound simple but church is for everyone. No one has a perfect experience at church and many times there are struggles with leaders. Many might choose not to show up but you are welcome as you are. Links Trust and Inspire: How Truly Great Leaders Unleash the Greatness in Others Read the TRANSCRIPT of this podcast Get 14-day access to the Core Leader Library The Leading Saints Podcast gets over 300,000 listens each month and has over 10 million total downloads as part of nonprofit Leading Saints' mission to help latter-day saints be better prepared to lead. Learn more and listen to any of the past episodes for free at LeadingSaints.org. Past guests include Emily Belle Freeman, David Butler, Hank Smith, John Bytheway, Liz Wiseman, Stephen M. R. Covey, Julie Beck, Brad Wilcox, Jody Moore, Tony Overbay, John H. Groberg, Elaine Dalton, Tad R. Callister, J. Devn Cornish, Dennis B. Neuenschwander, Anthony Sweat, John Hilton III, Barbara Morgan Gardner, Blair Hodges, Whitney Johnson, Ryan Gottfredson, Greg McKeown, DeAnna Murphy, Michael Goodman, Richard Ostler, Ganel-Lyn Condie, and many more in over 500 episodes. Discover podcasts, articles, virtual conferences, and live events related to callings such as the bishopric, Relief Society, elders quorum, Primary, youth leadership, stake leadership, ward mission, ward council, young adults, ministering, and teaching.

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Wow, this is one of the biggest issues that so many deal with in these latter days

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but few talk about it or even know how to talk

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about it. And when they do talk about it, it's usually in a private setting with a leader

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who is expected to know how to navigate struggles with pornography.

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Thankfully, Leading Saints has put together a remarkable resource called Liberating Saints.

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It's a virtual library with 25 plus presentations focused on helping leaders be better prepared to help

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someone overcome struggles with pornography. We cover topics like how to minimize shame in the

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Bishop's office, how to talk with children about pornography,

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and even how to talk about female pornography use in Relief Society.

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If you'd like to review the Liberating Saints Library at no cost for 14 days, simply go to

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leading Saints.org. 14. That's leading Saints.org slash 1-4. While you're at it, we'll give you access to all of our virtual libraries that cover

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several leadership related topics. So click the link in the show notes or simply visit

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leading Saints.org. or slash 14.

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Hey, this is another how I lead episode where we reach out to individuals across the world who've served in leadership or currently serving in a leadership capacity and we just ask them,

1:30.0

how is it you lead? And they are always so good to send me in advance. I usually make a request,

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send me two or three leadership principles that sort of act as our agenda during the interview.

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And it leads to great stories and principles that hopefully you can be inspired by and maybe they'll lead to some new leadership approaches that you take personally.

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Today I have the opportunity to chat with Weston Robinson who's down in Las Vegas, Nevada and he sent an email a few weeks back and wasn't looking to be interviewed per se, but he's been listening to leading Saints for a while and

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sent some gratitude my way which I always appreciate and then talked about his

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experience as a leader and I thought you know what why don't we get on the

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mic and talk about it so I want you to listen for just his unique approaches

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