First Young Womens Lesson

I am now in the Young Women's Presidency in our church congregation! I was asked to serve in this calling a week ago and we dove right in! Three other women and I are in charge of the teenage girls in our ward (12-18 years old) and their Sunday class as well as their Wednesday night youth group ("Mutual"). I am specifically assigned to the "Beehives" (12-13 year old girls) but since we don't have very many Young Women, we all meet together anyways.

I am so excited! The girls in my ward are way cute and we have already planned some super fun activities!

Today I taught my first lesson to the group. It was on being a daughter of God and growing closer to Christ through daily activities. It was actually going pretty well right up until the end (about 5 minutes before I was finished). The room we were in had 2 doors, one at the front where I was teaching and one at the back behind where the girls were sitting. We were having a really good moment when all of a sudden one of the Young Men threw open the door, tossed a ball of paper at the girls, and took off down the hall.

Instantly, the 4th grade teacher inside of me reared it's ugly head. I opened the door close to me and chased walked quickly to catch up with the Young Man around the corner, where he had run-- foolishly assuming I wouldn't follow him :)....

He turned and looked at me over his shoulder.

Scary Sis. Wright: "EXCUSE ME."

Young Man with Pink Tie: "Yeah..."

Scary Sis. Wright: "That was EXTREMELY rude."

Pink Tie: "uuhhh..."

Scary Sis. Wright: "That will NEVER happen again."

Pink Tie: "Yes ma'am. Yes, ma'am."

Scary Sis. Wright: "Thank you."

Do NOT disrespect me when I am teaching*

(There may or may not have been some slight attitude head bobbing on my part-- learned behaviors from my students.)

...So much for getting in with the kids and being a "Cool" youth leader.

At least my girls thought it was funny.

I walked back in and finished my lesson about making choices everyday to bring us closer to Christ and feel peace.

*I never would have done this a year ago. Teaching in an urban school district has apparently changed me.