Strengthening Relationships with Young Women | An Interview with Kim Partridge

This is a rebroadcast. The episode originally ran in January 2020.
Kim Partridge is originally from West Valley City, Utah, and has
lived in Phoenix, Arizona for 20 years. She is a nurse and a life
coach for teenage girls, and has served as a Young Women president
in her stake Young Women presidency. Kim and her husband are the
parents of four children. Since this podcast was originally
broadcast, Kim has changed the hike for the young women to be
statewide and include the young men as well. She also speaks more
in depth with the youth now about how the hike is like the Plan of
Salvation, how we are disciples of Christ as we are hiking in the
Grand Canyon, and about the names of Christ that we either take
upon us as we hike or that we see in the Grand Canyon. Learn more
HERE. Highlights 7:40 Young Women are all about relationships 9:50
Conflicts within relationships can play out in the church setting
12:00 Micromanaging relationships seldom works out well; story of
two Laurels 17:30 Story of young woman whose grandmother asked that
they invite her into Young Womens: grandma was angry that she
hadn’t been welcomed like she wanted 23:40 Everyone cannot always
have a fantastic time 24:30 She learned that she needed to know
what the young women wanted 25:00 They wanted to do activities
similar to what the young men were doing 26:45 Target shooting at
her first girl’s camp 29:00 Goal to connect with the young women at
camp 33:20 Expectation that they will tell her what they want: get
interested/pay attention to the clues 36:00 She encourages fun with
everything but also balances that with the spiritual aspects 38:15
Admit when you make a mistake: left someone behind 42:00 Making
sure the youth are handling their goals without the adults always
pushing 45:00 Go back to the basics, help them recognize what they
want, and know that they are developing a relationship with Jesus
Christ 49:00 Request for a change from physical challenges to an
embroidery challenge 51:45 Grand Canyon activity: what the girls
learned while doing a hard thing 59:35 Leading young women has
developed her relationship with the Savior Links Kim Partridge
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