Young Women President

Manina is now the young women president in our ward.

For those of you who aren’t familiar with the day-to-day operation of our church, let me explain. A ward is a congregation, usually about 400 people and it’s usually geographically bound. Here in Highland, it’s basically our neighborhood. Most members of our ward have a job to do to help the ward function. We call this our calling. These callings can change, and some are more work than others, but they’re all voluntary positions. Callings are not status symbols, but some are so much work that they kind of define life for a period of time. One of the “big” callings I’ve written about before was my job in the young men’s organization, where I was a counselor and scoutmaster in the young men organization.

Manina is pretty nervous about her new responsibilities, but she’s gathered a pretty good crew to help. This team will wrangle each of the classes which divvy up all the 12-18 year-old young women.

As president, Manina will help the Laurels (16-18). That’s great because she’ll get to do all the activities with Megan and her friends, which Megan is super excited about (insert giant teenage eyeroll here). Manina has asked Lacey Casper to help out as an advisor.

The Mia Maid class (14-15) has some fun leaders with Andrea Johnson (no relation) as first counselor and a yet-to-be-named advisor.

The Beehive class (12-13) got Heather Jensen as second counselor and Jessi Herbst took Manina’s old spot as advisor.

Manina’s good friend Penny Bergeron is the secretary which will be nice because she has been in the YW organization for a while and can help out with any class and she also knows all the girls pretty well.

Manina will do a great job, but this will take up a lot of time for the next couple years. She’ll have a great opportunity to strengthen her leadership skills and also learn more about how the ward functions. She’ll be in a lot of ward council meetings representing all of the young women and making sure every one of them is doing well. Good luck Manina!