Going to camp next year

[Jessicamormongirl]

I am going to be a first year YCL next year at camp and I am really nervous My older sister says all the girls will look up to me cause I am Laurel President in my ward, and blah blah blah... But that is why I am nervous. Everyone I meet thinks I am totally weird cause of my unique personality. I am also not very good in front of people. I want to be the type of YCL I had, one who is cool and seems to know it all, and has all those cute handouts and stuff. How do I be a good YCL? Any girls that were a first year YCL last year can you help me? Or any YCLs for both years? I wanna be a good leader, but how?

Jessica

[Wingnut]

Meh...don't worry about cute handouts. Most of the girls probably won't still have them by the end of the week anyway. There are lots of things you can do that might have an impact on the girls, but don't do it without an object lesson, otherwise it's just stuff. For example, you could make candles for the girls, either in Dixie cups or dipped on strings, but make sure you incorporate a "light of the world" type lesson with it. What's your Girl's Camp theme this year?

Part of the fun of camp is that EVERYONE is weird and you all blend together in ultimate weirdness. Girl's Camp was always a fun experience for me, partly because it's one place where it's easy to just be yourself an not worry about what everyone else thinks.

[skippy740]

I'm just thinking of Stephen Covey when I read your post:

At one seminar where I was speaking on the concept of proactivity, a man came up and said,

“Stephen, I like what you’re saying. But every situation is so different. Look at my marriage. I’m really worried. My wife and I just don’t have the same feelings for each other we used to have. I guess I just don’t love her anymore and she doesn’t love me. What can I do?”

“The feeling isn’t there anymore?” I asked.

“That’s right,” he reaffirmed. “And we have three children we’re really concerned about. What do you suggest?”

“Love her,” I replied.

“I told you, the feeling just isn’t there anymore.”

“Love her.”

“You don’t understand. The feeling of love just isn’t there.”

“Then love her. If the feeling isn’t there, that’s a good reason to love her.”

“But how do you love when you don’t love?”

“My friend, love is a verb. Love — the feeling — is a fruit of love the verb. So love her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her. Are you willing to do that?”

In the great literature of all progressive societies, love is a verb. Reactive people make it a feeling.

They’re driven by feelings. Hollywood has generally scripted us to believe that we are not responsible, that we are a product of our feelings. But the Hollywood script does not describe the reality. If our feelings control our actions, it is because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so.

Proactive people make love a verb. Love is something you do: the sacrifices you make, the giving of self, like a mother bringing a newborn into the world. If you want to study love, study those who sacrifice for others, even for people who offend or do not love in return. If you are a parent, look at the love you have for the children you sacrificed for. Love is a value that is actualized through loving actions. Proactive people subordinate feelings to values. Love, the feeling, can be recaptured.

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Stephen R Covey

Be YOURSELF and love them.

[Palerider]

Just be yourself.....and have a good time

[StrawberryFields]

The best thing to do is to reach them though your testimony and keep it real.:)

[nc31410]

I agree with everyone. I'm 21 and I was called to teach the miah maids...honestly I don't really get along with girls. So i was super nervous as to, if they would like me, if i'd be able to relate to them etc...I really wanted them to accept me and welcome me with open arms. I really figured out that all I had to do was to love them and EXPRESS my love for them, and to just be myself. And to put myself in their shoes, just to see how I should go about a lesson. Or whatever, I'd tell myself "How would I want someone to teach me this lesson?" "How would I enjoy, and remember the lesson?" etc...But most importantly is to just be yourself, and always have a postive attitude, and postive energy!