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Why I Called 3 Relief Society Counselors | A How I Lead Interview with Amy Jo Schenewark

Leading Saints Podcast

Leading Saints

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Amy Jo Schenewark holds a bachelor's degree in Human Resources Development and Training from Brigham Young University. She works as a 911 dispatcher and training officer. Amy has served as a ward Relief Society, Young Women, and Primary president, as a Seminary teacher, nursery leader, activity director, and counselor in stake Primary and Relief Society presidencies. She currently serves as a stake Relief Society president.


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The award-winning Leading Saints Podcast is one of the top independent Latter-day Saints podcasts 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.
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0:00.0

How's your teaching calling going?

0:05.0

Have you ever asked a question during the second hour, and suddenly everyone is looking at the carpet in silence?

0:12.0

There are proven methods to stimulate class discussion that work like a charm.

0:17.0

David Farmsworth does a masterful job presenting on this very subject in the Teaching Saints Virtual Library.

0:23.8

What questions get people talking?

0:25.6

How can you effectively listen to the answer they're saying without being distracted of where you want to take the class next?

0:31.7

These are crucial principles to consider, especially in this time of Come Follow Me Sunday School.

0:36.8

You can watch David Farnsworth's

0:38.5

presentation by visiting leadingsaints.org slash 14. There, you can gain free access for 14 days

0:45.2

to the Teaching Saints Virtual Library, where you'll find hours and hours of content to help you be a

0:50.5

better prepared Sunday teacher.

1:02.6

So this is what we do here at Leading Saints, is every week we go out and find somebody in the world who has some leadership experience. This is nobody, you know, as far as an expert

1:07.3

or somebody who's figured it all out. But these are everyday people serving in

1:11.4

callings just like you do. We simply ask them, how is it that you lead? What do you do?

1:16.6

What principles have helped? What's your ward like? What's your stake like? And the stories

1:21.7

and examples that come to the surface are inspiring and phenomenal and populate the leading

1:26.3

saints community with ideas that you can use or, you know, work with them and make it fit for your area.

1:32.8

So in this episode, we talk with Amy Jo Schenework from Texas.

1:37.1

She also has a very unique job in law enforcement being a dispatcher, which we talk about.

1:42.0

And there's a lot of leadership principles that she uses

1:45.0

in her role as a state relief society president as well. She's got experience as a ward

1:50.2

relief society president and some phenomenal principles. Listen to why she called three counselors.

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