Connecting with Individuals in Relief Society | How I Lead as a YSA Relief Society President | An Interview with Kessa Merrill

Leading Saints Podcast

Leading Saints

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Kessa Merrill is a young single adult member originally from Gilbert, Arizona, and is currently serving as stake Relief Society first counselor. Professionally she is an esthetician, studied public relations at Arizona State University, and is currently pursuing both of those passions as she works as the Operations Manager for the SkinBoss SkinSpa in Provo, Utah. During her time in Arizona she served as both the Latter-day Saint Student Association president and Interfaith Student Council president, and prior to that she served as her YSA ward Relief Society president. She has also served in several presidencies as secretary and held many music callings. In her free time she likes to cook dinners with friends, sing karaoke, and redecorate her home. Highlights 5:30 Kessa shares her experience working on the institute council and interfaith council at Arizona State University. 8:30 Getting called as a Relief Society president at 21 years old in her YSA ward 10:00 The most difficult thing about being Relief Society President 11:00 Visits with her counselors was one of the most important and consistent things that she did as a Relief Society president. 14:45 Those simple visits that Kessa took time to make every week impacted her life and helped her gain connections that have stayed in her life years later. 17:00 Kessa shares her experience getting called to be the first counselor in the YSA Stake Relief Society Presidency. 19:30 Kessa was one of the first YSA members that was part of the Stake Counsel. She has been able to speak up for YSA members in these councils. 21:30 Be organized and share responsibility Applying this principle has allowed her to reach out to more people They take advantage of technology. It’s harder to reach YSA members with their schedules so they use text and zoom calls to communicate a lot. 26:20 Loneliness is one of the biggest hardships that YSA members struggle with. 27:45 What a leader can do to help with the loneliness that YSA members are experiencing It’s not about more activities Make connections in small groups and through ministering 29:00 Serve with your eyes wide open and love. Links Read the TRANSCRIPT of this podcast Get 14-day access to the Core Leader Library

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0:55.7	You can go to leading Saints.org slash donate or simply text the word-47-47. Oh, All right here I am with Kessa Merrill. How are you Kessa?
1:29.0	I'm doing great. How are you, Kurt?
1:32.0	Very good. And now your, Kurt? Very good.
1:33.0	And now your dad got you into this.
1:35.0	Let's roast him for a minute.
1:38.0	Yes, my dad is a very proud dad.
1:41.0	And he, the second he could, he was like I'm going to nominate you for this I feel like we
1:46.6	definitely need to do it and I don't think anything would come of it but yeah
1:50.9	well the stars aligned and I do get quite a few of recommendations for interviews like this, but yours just floated to the top, you know, so here we are and so is your dad, is your dad the one that maybe listens to the leading saints more than you or do you
2:08.2	have any experience with leading saints?
2:10.3	Yeah, so I have listened previously, but he's the one that introduced me to it.
2:14.0	And so I've listened to several episodes, mainly because of the nature of the callings that I'm in.
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