I Hesitated Being Called, Mourned Being Released | An Interview with Kayla Shields

Kayla Shields works as a Certified Personal trainer and Nutrition
Coach. She earned an associate's degree from LDS Business College
and is now headed back to Ensign College to finish a Finance
degree. Her church callings have included Primary teacher, Activity
Days leader, Relief Society counselor, and Relief Society
president. She recently accepted the best calling in the Church:
Primary music leader. Despite Kurt and Kayla's recommendation, we
did not title this episode "When Salmonella Forms Friendships".
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3:00 Kurt introduces his conversation with Kayla, a
recently-released Relief Society president. 4:15 Kayla tells her
story of getting called to be the Relief Society president, fear,
imposter syndrome, and calling counselors. 9:20 Doing ministering
interviews. Take the time to check in with the sisters and see how
they are doing and their relationship with God and then you can get
to the ministering questions. 11:00 By sharing her story and the
hard things that she has been through, Kayla has been able to
deepen her connection with the women in Relief Society. 12:45 Ways
that Kayla has shared her and her husband’s story of sexual
addiction and been vulnerable in her ward. She has decided to
remove the shame from it and has found that people have been much
more open with her. 15:10 Principle 1 - Acceptance of all 17:10 How
Kayla and her presidency did ministering interviews and scheduled
them. They decided not to meet with the companionship but have
one-on-one meetings. 19:20 Principle 2 - Lean into the awkward
22:10 Working with the bishopric and elders quorum presidency 23:30
Ward counsels, correlation meetings, and personal interviews with
the bishop 24:40 Doing monthly activities 27:45 The first year of
being president they didn’t call any teachers and had lots of
different women teach. 30:00 The overwhelm of organizing the women
into ministering routes. Just start and it will work out. 32:30 The
shocking grief of being released as the Relief Society president.
Kurt shares some advice on ways to still connect to people and
gather. 38:00 Kayla shares her final thoughts and testimony of
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