Interview

I interviewed my mom this week because she is a great leader in multiple facets. For one she is the co-leader of my family. She loves and cares about all of us kids and makes sure that we are all taken care of and do our parts to make life run smoothly. The qualities I found in my leader were: persistence, patience, love, kindness, charitable, smart, a listener, a quick thinker, and a good bled of be strict in some situations and lenient in others. The quality that she find to be her greatest strength is, "being able to listen and figure out what [she] should do."
She is a great influence for good as she serves to her fullest capacity our family, friends, in her calling, and anyone she sees who is in need of assistance. She lives a good, righteous life and strives to make sure that all who are in her care are well looked after or provided for. Though she does not work (as in have an occupation), she has served in many capacities as a leader. She has been called as our ward's Relief Society president, Primary president, Girl's camp director, and Nursery leader. In all these positions she has had to assess situations, resources, and events then decide what needed to be done with what they had. She has directed others in a kind was that does not diminish their importance. She told me that when she was first the primary president she was getting so stressed out because she was trying to do it all on her own. She said she realized that she had a presidency ready and willing to help her and being a leader did not mean she had to do everything but, that she just needed to trust others and make sure everything was in some way accomplished.
I can learn a lot from my mother. I can learn that just because you may be in the lead that doesn't mean that you are too high to get down on your knees and help. She always is serving everyone and is a trusted friend. As a mother, she leads my family in kindness. Things may not seem to be perfect at a glance but, they are perfect for our family. If we eat too many sweets or our we are allowed to watch TV before our rooms are clean it is made up by other qualities my mother has decided to stress like love, family togetherness, peace, and gaining knowledge. I have learned that you cannot win them all so you must pick your battles, deciding what is most important. I only hope that I can be half as good as a leader as my mom because everyone who knows her loves and respects her and listens to her advice and opinions because they know that she has their best interest at heart.