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Pamela Mills is currently serving in her fourth year as Relief Society President in Kirkland, Ohio. She is a convert to the church and has a deep testimony of the gospel of Jesus Christ. I was so pleased to interview Pamela and learn from her leadership experience. She is the first (of many) Relief Society Presidents to be interview on the Leading Saints Podcast.
In this episode Pamela shares with us her 5 leadership lesson, how she counsel with the sisters in her group and her deep desire to learn and become more humble through her service in the Kingdom of God.
5 Leadership Lessons From Pamela Mills
1. It is very tough to guard a chocolate cake at a baptism.
2. Keep confidences. Be genuine. Be yourself. Do your best and
leave the rest to God.
3. If you wish to learn humility, you will need to discover what it means
to turn yourself fully over to God’s will and then abandon yourself to doing
it.
4. Everyone wants to be validated / loved. Everyone.
5. Triple your study of the gospel, your time spent in prayer.
I loved this podcast! I am always looking for perspective and experience from other Relief Society presidents. I have been a RS president for two and a half years in two wards because of a ward division, and I’m serving under my third bishop. I would love to hear how other bishop/rs pres teams work together, and how I can serve most effectively to support the bishop.
I loved the interview! It was a great idea! I definitely want to be like Pamela. I guess I will have to triple everything. Thanks, Kurt.
Great insight and counsel. I especially admire Pamela’s example of serving with a non-member spouse. I am serving my second time as RS President and struggle to love my calling as she loves hers. Balance with other responsibilities in my life and not allowing myself to be “used” or feel like I am being used is a real concern for me. How do we serve and help others without enabling them or allowing them to “use” the system? I know the answer is to live my life so I will always be able to hear the counsel from the Holy Ghost, but boy I would like to take some peoples agency away. I have enjoyed your newsletter for a while and have really enjoyed the podcasts. Thanks for the reminder of why we are doing this.
thanks for sharing this! I really enjoyed listening to this podcast and I learned a lot from Sister Mills experience. Like Jo, I am serving my second time as RS president. I still have so much to learn!
Just listened to the podcast with Pamela. What a great example and a sister who is really willing to give her everything to build the kingdom of God!