Meagan Patterson is studying fashion design at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandise in Los Angeles. She is currently serving in her ward Young Women presidency in California. She has previously served as a ward Relief Society president and stake Relief Society president as a young single adult in Utah. She also served in the Zambia Lusaka mission.

2:40 Meagan’s background

4:30 Meagan shares her experience going from being in a Young Single Adult ward in Utah and moving as a mid-single adult to a geographical ward in California.

6:00 Previous leadership experience and mission in Zambia Lusaka

9:30 Story behind getting called to be the stake Relief Society president

12:50 Getting started as a Relief Society president and choosing counselors. Setting a foundation with the handbook.

16:20 Advice from Meagan’s dad before her mission. Let the elders serve you. It’s the same in our wards. Relief Society and elders quorum should serve one another and work hand in hand.

20:00 Coming together to work with the elders quorum. Things that Meagan did did to help the men in the ward to feel loved.

22:45 Love fuels leadership. We are leaders because we love. People recognize leadership when they feel loved.

24:40 Meagan’s experience working with young women. The unique challenges of an inner city ward.

28:20 Meagan shares her final thoughts and testimony on leadership and how it has brought her closer to the Savior.

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