I think that usually when we're all
really together and unified, with love in our hearts,
you can definitely feel the sisterhood.
Like, we share thoughts.
And they might not always be the same,
so we are always teaching each other something.
I think presidency meeting is truly
the time where we need to come together and make sure
that we're sharing the love.
Welcome to the class presidency meeting.
So, to start this off, will you give us an opening prayer?
Of course.
Our dear, kind Heavenly Father ...
There's a comfort that they feel when they are together,
where they can lean on each other, where
they can talk to each other.
One person's inadequacies can be balanced out
by someone else's strengths, and then you work all together
as a team towards one goal.
Will you pull up the Laurel responsibilities on LDS.org?
Who did you want to read that?
Will you?
"Watch over all class members, especially new members,
less active, and those with special needs.
Pray for them, spend time with them,
and become genuine friends."
To me, ministering means loving them
and making sure they know that they're loved.
Even if you don't have a place at home
or you don't have a place at school or whatever,
we're here for you.
I actually wrote down a list of all of the Laurels.
I'm just going to go over that so we
can keep that in mind, like who we have,
what are their needs, that kind of stuff.
So Haley ...
If the Savior was going to do anything,
He would be here reaching out and ministering and contacting
people on a really regular basis, connecting with them
one on one, really listening, caring
about their actual needs.
I feel like I've seen the most change in Candice.
I noticed it when, a few months ago, Amandine's dad
passed away.
We were at the hospital, and Candice came.
She took the day off of school, and she came and sat
with Amandine, and we cried together and just sort of held
onto each other, really.
I was so impressed by her ability to drop her own life
and reach out to someone else, and I've
seen that on a consistent basis.
Candice--it's just Candice and her dad that are active
in the Church, and so I think it's really neat to see that
Candice stands alone on a lot of things.
We do see her at church when it would be really easy for her
not to come.
It's something that is a part of her.
Amandine, who is a refugee from Tanzania, Africa,
lost her mom about a year after she came to this country
and just recently, in February, lost her dad.
With both of her parents being gone,
she has become, in a sense, the mother of the family.
It's been a big responsibility that's been placed upon her,
and yet I see her bringing the younger siblings to church
and really being a big strength for her family of what
it is that her parents tried to instill in them.
And yet she's still trying to carry that
on without her parents there.
I've seen it with Mary as well.
The thing with Mary that I love is that she reaches out
to the younger girls.
I see her reach out to the Beehives;
I see her reach out to the younger
girls to make them feel included,
to make them feel like they're a part of the Young Women.
I have seen such love between these girls,
and I feel like that is what makes them a good leader,
is that they are doing it with love.