How I Lead as Stake President | An Interview with Randy Lonsdale

Leading Saints Podcast

Leading Saints

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Randy Lonsdale and his wife Linda (Mendenhall) are Canadians living near Calgary, Alberta. They are thrilled to have six wonderful children and nine practically-perfect grandchildren. Randy is an in-house attorney handling engineering and construction contracts for a supermajor energy company. Randy's law career has taken his family to Vancouver (Canada), twice to South Korea, and to the island of Saipan (CNMI), and he still speaks Korean first learned during his mission to Seoul, Korea. He has served as bishop as well as a counselor in a stake presidency and a military district presidency. For the past 5 years he has served as a stake president. Highlights 3:00 Introduction and Randy’s background 5:00 Story of how Randy was called to be a Stake President and Stake demographics 11:45 The most important things that Randy has learned in his leadership Showing people love is always number one Teach people how to build a stronger relationship with Jesus Christ through teaching and by example 13:30 In Randy’s stake they have a vision statement and also a set of goals. They try to keep it simple. 14:30 Traditions and their approach to High Council meetings 16:30 Helping youth prepare for their missions: They have a "missionary bootcamp" checklist 21:40 Randy explains how their stake runs and things that he has found that really work 23:00 Tools they use for administration 25:40 Randy’s personal stories and family tragedy 30:45 How losing his daughter has helped him be a better leader Links Church Missionary Preparation pages Pre-Mission Boot Camp Checklist (DOCX) Pre-Mission Boot Camp Checklist (PDF) Read the TRANSCRIPT of this podcast Get 14-day access to the Core Leader Library

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1:14.0	visit leading Saints.org. Today I am recording from the middle of the Pacific. I guess it's not the middle. I think we can see land a couple miles off, but I am on a cruise that I had the opportunity of speaking at and I'm meeting all sorts of leaders on this cruise and
1:43.9	Randy Lonsdale you're one of them right I guess I am nice and how did you how did you
1:50.4	make it on this cruise we got an email? We got an email from your organization and we just thought wow this would be a really fun and when we received it was it just seemed like the the virus the pandemic was was about to
2:07.2	Abate and we're gonna be able to do this and then so we paid our money and the next day all this news of the omicron virus just exploded everywhere and so it's been a true miracle just to get on this boat and to spend some time with some wonderful people.
2:23.0	I was just really excited to see all the entertainers and speakers.
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