Strengthening Relationships with Young Women | An Interview with Kim Partridge

Kim Partridge is originally from West Valley City, Utah, and has lived in Phoenix, Arizona for 20 years. She is a nurse and a life coach for teenage girls, has served as a Young Women’s President, and currently serves in her stake Young Women’s presidency. Kim and her husband are the parents of three children. Highlights 7:40 Young Women are all about relationships 9:50 Conflicts within relationships can play out in the church setting * 12:00 Micromanaging relationships seldom works out well; story of two Laurels * 17:30 Story of young woman whose grandmother asked that they invite her into Young Women’s: grandma was angry that she hadn’t been welcomed like she wanted * 23:40 Everyone cannot always have a fantastic time 24:30 She learned that she needed to know what the young women wanted * 25:00 They wanted to do activities similar to what the young men were doing * 26:45 Target shooting at her first girl’s camp * 29:00 Goal to connect with the young women at camp * 33:20 Expectation that they will tell her what they want: get interested/pay attention to the clues 36:00 She encourages fun with everything but also balances that with the spiritual aspects 38:15 Admit when you make a mistake: left someone behind 42:00 Making sure the youth are handling their goals without the adults always pushing * 45:00 Go back to the basics, help them recognize what they want, and know that they are developing a relationship with Jesus Christ 49:00 Request for a change from physical challenges to an embroidery challenge 51:45 Grand Canyon activity: what the girls learned while doing a hard thing 59:35 Leading young women has developed her relationship with the Savior Links Kim Partridge, Teen Girls Coach